16 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



series (sic). The bars are edged black and obscurely vermiculated. All 

 undcrparts from bill vinous rusty, with a group of white black-margined 

 patches on throat, and another across bottom of breast, below which the 

 colour is paler and broken with rusty and dusky irregular bars; this 

 extends to lower tail-coverts. Lower back and upper tail-coverts as back. 

 A pale tawny supercilium. Lining of wings whitish. Length 9 inches, 

 wing 4f , tail 4f , of which beyond body 2, bill f , tarsus -fa, middle toe $-." 

 Lord Tweeddale's comment on this is : " This description refers to the 

 rufous phase, when the upper plumage is traversed and vermiculated by 

 narrow brown lines, while otherwise the bird exhibits the adult markings." 



The following is a brief description of the bird shot by Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay in Karennee on the 2nd of April : 



General colour pale rufous ; the upper plumage variegated with black ; 

 the quills blackish, with rufous bars on the outer webs only ; the scapulars 

 and some of the upper wing-coverts blotched with white ; the tail irregu- 

 larly banded and vermiculated with black and two shades of rufous ; chin 

 and throat rufous marked with black ; remainder of lower plumage a 

 mixture of black and rufous boldly blotched with white. Tail 5 '4 inches, 

 wing 5*1, tarsus '7, bill from gape 1'2, width of gape about 1. Sex male. 

 Iris marbled buff ; bill light madder ; legs light madder tinged with 

 violet. 



This bird is very similar to the type of B. hodgsoni in the British 

 Museum, of which the following is a description : 



Adult. Crown and nape black barred with pale rufous ; upper plumage 

 a mixture of black and rufous ; the feathers of the upper back each with 

 a white bar, those of the lower back each with a white spot ; the scapulars 

 blotched with white ; quills brown, with rufous bars on the outer webs 

 of the primaries and on both webs of the secondaries ; tail barred and 

 vermiculated with black and two shades of rufous ; lower plumage chiefly 

 white, sparingly barred with rufous, the pectoral feathers long and ample. 



Nestling. Rufous barred with brown, and with some white blotches on 

 the scapulars. 



Tail of the adult 5'5 inches, wing 5*3, tarsus *65, bill from gape 1'15. 



The specimen shot by Capt. Bingham in Tenasserim in February is said 

 by Mr. Hume to agree very closely with Col. TickelFs description. The 

 length was 8'5 inches, tail 4'8, wing 47, bill from gape T14, width of bill 

 at gape 1'27. 



1 have no doubt myself that all the above specimens belong to one 

 species. 



Little is known of the habits and distribution of this species. In addi- 

 tion to the localities quoted above, it has been met with in Sikhim and at 

 Malacca, and it probably occurs in every portion of the intervening 

 country. 



