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(29) Dendrocitta rufa kinneari, subsp. nov. 

 THE BURMESE TREE-PIE. 



Description. Similar to the last but much darker both above 

 and below, the colour of the head and back blending with one 

 another, the red of the back dull and brownish. 



Measurements. Wing 137 to 151 mm. ; tail 195 to 241 mm. 



Distribution. The whole of Burma south of the Chin and 

 Kachin Hills down to N. Tenasserim and east into Yunnan, 

 Shan States and "West Siam. 



Nidification. Similar to that of D. rufa rufa. 



Habits. The Burmese Tree-pie, though equally tame x and 

 confiding in its ways, is not so exclusively confined to open 

 country in civilization as is the Indian Tree-pie and it may also 

 be found in thin forest and the more open parts of evergreen 

 forest. 



Type. $ , No. 8711. 20. 213 Brit. Mus. Coll. Toungoo. 



(30) Dendrocitta rufa saturatior. 



THE TENASSERIM TREE-PIE. 



Dendrocitta vagabunda saturutior Ticeliurst, Bull. B. 0. C., xlii,p. 56 

 (1922) (Kaukareyet, Aniherst). 



Description. Similar to that of the Burmese Tree-pie but still 

 darker and browner, the back having the red hardlv visible at all. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the Burmese 

 race. 



Distribution. Peninsular Siam and Burma but how far its 

 limits extend cannot at present be defined. 



Nidiflcation and Habits. Nothing recorded. 



(31) Dendrocitta leucogastra. 

 THE SOUTHERN TREE-PIE. 



Dendrocitta leucogastra Gould, P. Z. 3., 1833, p. 57 (Malabar Coast) ; 

 Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 31. 



Vernacular names. Neela val Kaka (Tel.). 



Description. Forehead, anterior half of crown, sides of the head, 

 chin, throat, upper breast and thighs black ; posterior crown to 

 hind neck, lower breast to vent and upper tail-coverts white ; 

 back, scapulars and rump chestnut-bay ; under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut ; wings black, the primaries with a large patch of white at 

 their base ; central tail-feathers grey, broadly tipped black ; the 

 next pair half grey and half black and the others nearly entirely 

 black. 



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