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295.— -Culicicapa ceylonensis, Swains. 



This pretty cbeery little species is found all over the province, 

 being most numerous in the evergreen forests. 



299.— Alseonax ferrugineus, Sodgs. 



The one specimen I got of this species was shot on the 

 20th October, between Thingangyeenoun in the Thoungyeen 

 valley and Tounjah, the top of the pass over the Dawna. 

 I saw another in April at the head-waters of the Htenoo- 

 choung lower south. The bird is easily recognizable by its 

 ferruginous tint and the circle of conspicuous white feathers 

 round the eye. 



301.— Stoporala melanops, Vig. 



This bird is scattered widely over the country from October 

 to April. In the Thoungyeen valley I have invariably found 

 them by the banks of streams. 



304.— Cyornis rubeculoides, Vig. 



This bird is very common in bamboo jungles all through the 

 country. 



I procured a young bird on the 13th August 1879, at Kau- 

 karit on the Houndraw river, that puzzled me not a little ; it is 

 in the rufous garb of the young just changing into the blue of 

 the adult. I had never seen or shot the bird in this stage 

 before. 



(3.) L. leucogaster has a very narrow supercilium, not quite extending to the 

 forehead; chin and throat white ; black transverse band at base of throat more or 

 less spotted with white ; centre of breast and abdomen white, more or less tinged 

 with fawn. 



(4.) L. perlata has a trace of a white supercilium, and the throat and breast 

 dusky, with large oval white spots ; abdomen white. 



(5.) L. javanica has no supercilium, or only a faint trace of one. Throat 

 white; a transverse band at base of throat blackish without spots; middle of breast 

 and abdomen white; the latter tinged with fawn. 



The Thoungyeen specimen is an extremely indifferent carbolized one, and the 

 lateral tail-feathers are not half grown, but it seems to differ from aureola, — 1st, 

 in wanting the triangular spots at the tip of the wing-coverts, which spots are 

 present, even in the youngest aureola, though in this they are buff coloured 

 instead of white ; 2nd, — in the four central tail-feathers being entirely black, and 

 there being less white on the lateral tail-feathers, 3rd, — in the chin, throat, and 

 upper breast being white. In Aureola the black feathers of the throat are always 

 more or less fringed at the tips with white, but even where these fringes are most 

 widely extended, (and in some specimens they are almost entirely wanting) there 

 is always a band of dark feathers at the junction of the throat with the breast 

 to which they do not extend ; there is no such dark band in this specimen. In other 

 respects the bird does not differ from Indian aureola, though perhaps the mantle is 

 greyer and paler. 



If the differences thus indicated prove to be constant in other specimens obtained 

 in this locality, the bird will have to be separated and might stand as burmanica, 

 but it has to be noticed that a Thayet Myo specimen in our museum seems to furnish 

 a connecting link between the present specimen and Indian ones ; the tail and throat 

 are as in the latter, but the upper surface is like that of the Thoungyeen specimen, 

 and the spots on the coverts are almost obsolete.— A. O. H.] 



