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streams and natural glades. It has the Tit-like habits of many of 

 the smaller Babblers but is very deliberate in its movements both on 

 wing or on foot. Its call is a pleasant double note " too-\veet, too- 

 weet," not often uttered unless the birds are separated. 



(357) Pteruthius melanotis intermedius. 

 HUME'S SHRIKE- BABBLEE. 



Allotrius intermedius Hume, S. R, v, p. 112 (1877) (Tenasserim). 

 Pteruthius intermedius. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 227. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Male. Differs from the last in having the forehead 

 deep chestnut, followed by a yellow- band ; the grey nape and black 

 neck-patches are absent; the outermost tail-feathers have a streak 

 of black near the tips of the outer webs ; the 1 st and 2nd primaries 

 are entirely black, the, next four black on the base and white on 

 the rest of the outer webs. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last. 



The female has the forehead rufous and the lower plumage pale 

 yellow. The wings are edged with green except the earlier 

 primaries which are edged with pale yellow. 



Distribution. The eastern hills of Burma from Bhamo to 

 Tenasserim. 



Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 



(358) Pteruthius xanthochloris xanthochloris. 

 THE GKEEX SHRIKE-BABBLER. 



Pteruthius xanthochloris Hodgs., J. A. S. B., xv, p. 448 (1847 J 

 (Nepal) ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 227. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Male. The forehead, lores, sides of the crown and 

 round the eye dark grey ; crown and nape blackish with traces of 

 grey ; ear-coverts and upper parts green ; lesser wing-coverts 

 brown edged with green ; greater coverts the same tipped with 

 yellowish ; primary-coverts black ; wings dark brown edged with 

 green exteriorly ; tail brown suffused with green on the outer 

 webs, tipped with white and the outer web of the outermost 

 feather whitish ; chin, throat and breast pale ashy, suffused in 

 places with yellow ; remaining lower plumage, under wing-coverts 

 aud axillaries bright yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris grey, dark grey or grey-brown ; bill 

 black, the lower mandible and commissure pale blue-grey ; legs 

 and feet fleshy or fleshy-grey. 



Measurements. Length about 125 mm.; wing 62 to 65mm.; 

 tail about 48 to 50 mm. ; tarsus about 20 mm. ; culmen 8 mm. 



