176 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



323.— Erythrosterna albicilla, Pall. 



It is wonderful how early some of the cold weather visitants 

 to Burmah and Tenasserim come in. I have got specimens of 

 this bird in the beginning of September in the Thoungyeen 

 forests when the rains were in full blow still. 



326.— Erythrosterna maculata, Tick 



I got a specimen of this species at about 1,500 feet elevation 

 in the Meplay valley. I have not observed it elsewhere. 



343 bis.— Myiophoneus eugenii, Hume. 



I have seen this species in various places from Hpapoon in 

 the north to the sources of the Thoungyeen. On the Zammee 

 and "Winyeo it is not common even in the higher sources of 

 the same, but throughout the Thoungyeen valley, and specially 

 in the Meplay and its tributaries, it abounds. 



Once when encamped for a few days at the sources of the 

 Queebaw ehoung a feeder of the Meplay, I had very good 

 opportunities of watching a pair that frequented a rocky 

 stream just below where my tent was pitched. Early in the 

 morning, while it was still dark, one or other of them would 

 sit on a particular large rock in the opposite bank and whistle 

 a few cheery notes, at intervals now and then until it was 

 light ; when both would fly up the stream, and hunt about 

 for their breakfast of shells. In search of these they would 

 wander far up the hill side away from the water, but seemed 

 invariably on finding a landshell to bring it to the banks to 

 eat, where, if it was a large one, they battered it against the 

 rock and picked out the animal piece-meal. The number of 

 broken shells and fragments along the course of that little 

 ehoung was incredible ; every little piece of rock had a pile 

 near it. They seem to me far more silent birds than their 

 Himalaj^an and South Indian representatives. 



344 bis.— Hydrornis oatesi, Hume. 



This species may occur in the Thoungyeen valley as Mr. 

 Davison got it at Mooleyit, but I have never myself come 

 across it. 



344 quat.— Pitta cyanea, Blyth. 



I have found this Ground Thrush fairly common both at 

 Kaukarit and in the Thouugyeen valley. It keeps far more 

 to the ground than do moluccensis and cuculata. A permanent 

 resident in the Thounorveen forests. 



