MYIOPHONEUS. 179 



Cachar ; Manipur ; Arrakan, and probably the whole country west 

 of the Irrawaddy river ; Karennee and the Karen hills, where this 

 is found together with the next species. This bird also extends 

 into Afghanistan and Turkestan. 



In sumnier this species is found up to 11,000 feet, but in winter 

 it descends to lower levels and even to the plains. In Cachar it is 

 said to be merely a winter visitor. 



Habits, $c. This species frequents hill-streams and torrents, 

 perching on rocks and snags and feeding largely on snails, the shells 

 of which are frequently found accumulated on the ground where 

 the bird has been in the habit of breaking them up. It has a loud 

 and pretty whistling note. It breeds from April to June, con- 

 structing a massive cup-shaped nest of roots and moss in a crevice 

 of a rock or in the root of some up-turned tree in the river-bed 

 near or under a waterfall, and laying from three to five eggs, which 

 are pale grey or green, speckled with pink and brown. The eggs 

 measure 1*42 by 1. 



188. Myiophoneus eugenii. The Burmese WJiistling-ThrusJi. 



Myiophoneus eugenei, Hume, S. F. i, p. 475 (1873), iii, p. 106, v, 

 p. 113, note ; Hume Sf Dae. 8. F. vi, p. 236 j Hume, Cat. no. 343 bis ; 

 Singham, S. F. ix, p. 176 ; Oates, S. F. x, p. 204 ; id. B. B. i, p. 17 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 9 ; Salvador i, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) 

 v, p. 010 j Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 123. 



Fig. 52. Head of M. eugenii. 



Coloration. Eesembles M. temmincki. Differs in having the 

 median upper wing-coverts without the conspicuous white tips of 

 that species, and in having a bill much larger and with less black on 

 the upper mandible. 



Bill orange-yellow, the region of the nostrils and a portion of 

 the culmen dark brown ; mouth yellow ; iris umber-brown ; eyelids 

 straw-yellow ; legs black. 



Length about 13'5 ; tail 5-5 ; wing 7 ; tarsus 2-3 ; bill from 

 gape 1-7. 



Distribution. The whole of Pegu east of the Irrawaddy river ; 

 the Karen hills ; Karennee; the pine-forests of the Salween river ; 



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