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370. Tribura intermedia. TJie Burmese Busli-Warller. 



Dumeticola intermedia, Oatcs, S. F. ix, p. 220. 



Tribura intermedia (Dates), Brooks, S. F. xi, p. 445 ; Oates, B. B. i, 



p. 101. 

 Tribura taczanowskia (Sivinh.'), Oatcs, S. F. x, p. 218. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage russet-brown, the wings 

 plain brown, the outer webs edged with russet-brown ; tail russet- 

 brown, the shafts viewed from below being white, and the tips of 

 all the feathers paler ; an indistinct narrow supercilium whitish ; 

 lores tinged with brown ; ear-coverts hair-brown, with the shafts 

 paler ; cheeks white, the feathers generally tipped with brown ; 

 whole lower plumage white, tinged with buff, especially on the 

 breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts, the feathers of which are 

 broadly tipped with white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale 

 buffy white. 



The young are strongly suffused on the lower plumage and cheeks 

 with deep yellowish buff, and the feathers of the throat are gene- 

 rally tipped with dusky brown. 



Upper mandible and tip of the lower dark brown ; remainder of 

 bill white ; mouth white ; legs whity flesh-colour; claws pale horn ; 

 iris hazel-brown. 



Length 5-5; tail 2*4; wing2'2; tarsus '8; bill from gape * 65. 



This species resembles T. luteiventris more closely than it does 

 any of the others, but it may be separated at once from it by the 

 size of the first primary ; the colour of the plumage is also suffi- 

 ciently distinct. 



T. taczanoiuskia is a Chinese species of which only a young spe- 

 cimen is known. The two birds will, I expect, prove to be quite 

 distinct when adults are hereafter compared. 



Distribution. Known at present only from the immediate vicinity 

 of Kyeikpadein in Pegu, where this species occurs in the cold 

 weather from November to the middle of February. Seebohm 

 possesses a bird from the Bhutan Doars which appears to be refer- 

 able to this Bush- Warbler. 



Habits, <$fc. Frequents paddy-fields, stubble, and grass, and is a 

 great skulker, seldom showing itself. This bird seems to feed 

 on the ground a good deal. 



371. Tribura thoracica. The Spotted Busli- Warbler. 



Salicaria affinis, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (J844, descr. nulla); 



id. Cat. Mamm. $c. Nepal, pp. 64, 151 (1846). 

 Dumeticola thoracica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 584 (1845) ; id. Cat. 



p. 183. 

 Horornis flaviventris, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 31 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, 



p. 162 ; Brooks, S. F. x, p. 170. 

 Dumeticola affinis (Hodgs.}, Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 334; Jerd. B. I. 



ii, p. 158 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 142 ; Brooks, 



J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 246; id. S. F. iii, p. 286. 

 Dumeticola brimneipectus, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 19 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. 



xli, pt. ii, p. 164; Hume, S. F. i, p. 494; id. N. $ E. p. 328; 



Brooks, J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 246 ; id. S. F. viii, p. 475. 



