ANDERSON 5 HILL WARBLER. 



This is a regular hill bird, and is very fairly common down the 

 hills on the eastern side of Burma. It is a pale olive brown with a 

 conspicuous white eye-brow; under parts light colou-ed, and is about 

 six-and-a-half inches in length, with a specially long tail. This bird 

 seems to build two types of nest according to locality. In Kachin 

 Hills it builds a beautiful woven nest like the last bird, whilst in the 

 Toungoo Hills it contents itself with an untidy dome-shaped one. 

 The eggs are, however, the same in boih districts, being a pale bluish 

 white \\ith red spots. 



(No. 461. S. superciliaris.) 



THE BURMESE WREN-WARBLER. 



A small olive-green bird, about six inches in length ; lower parts 

 pale coloured; generally found in open country and round paddy 

 fields. Makes a neat little woven ne-t attached to the stalks of 

 grass or stems of weeds, and lays four or five beautiful glossy blue 

 eggs covered with large red spots and markings. 



During the breeding season, which lasts throughout the rains, 

 they utter pretty little songs and notes in vicinity of their nests. 

 At this time of the year they are very partial to railway embankments, 

 nesting freely along the sides in long grass. 



(No, 468. Prinia blandfordi.) 



I have omitted the migratory birds, which consist of small Tree- 

 warblers, Willow-wrens, and a number of small birds inhabiting 

 bushes and marshy ground, all of them are dull coloured birds. 



1 have also omitted the Fly- catcher Warblers, which are the only 

 richly coloured birds of this family, and are, comparatively speaking, 

 rare hill birds. 



VIII 



NUTHATCHES, TITS, ETC. 



Nuthatches are a well defined group of small birds which cannot 

 well be mistaken for any others. They are a widely distributed 

 family, those found here being very like the home bird, both in 

 colouring and in notes. They are small blue-backed birds with light 

 rufous coloured under parts, and amuse themselves by continually 

 running up and down the trunks and branches of trees, after the 

 manner of wood-peckers, generally starting low down and working 

 their way round and up. When they have thoroughly explored one 

 particular tree they go off to another; and are very regular in their 



