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345 bis.— Pitta moluccensis, P. L. S. Mull. 



This bird, during May and June, is so common in and around 

 Kaukarit and in the Thoungyeen, that a dozen could be easily 

 procured in a morning. 



346.— Pitta cuculata, Hartl. 



I only once procured this bird, and that was at the foot of 

 the bills on the Thoungyeen side of the Tounjah pass. 



346 ter.-— Anthocincla phayrii, Blyth. 



This excessively rare Pitta — for Pitta it is — straggles into the 

 Thoungyeen valley. I procured two specimens, one of which, 

 to the best of my belief, was a female. I sexed it myself and 

 can scarcely think I could have been mistaken ; but then 

 Mr. Hume has a specimeu, sexed as female, from Thatone, which 

 as far as looks go ought to be the real female ; it has the plumes 

 behind the ear shorter, wants the velvet black about the head and 

 cheeks, and has just a suspicion of pink on the under tail-coverts, 

 whereas my sexed female is identical with the male. The pro- 

 babilities are that I have made a mistake and sexed my bird 

 wrong, Still there is a chance that the old adult female assumes 

 the same livery as the male, for on the 5th April 1879 I came on 

 two of these birds trotting about with sticks and twigs in their 

 mouths as if they were going to build a nest. I watched them 

 for nearly three-quarters of an hour, but failed to discover any 

 nest or beginnings of one : at last one flew away, and I shot 

 the other, which proved to be a male. These two were identi- 

 cal in plumage and may have been a pair. 



The following are the measurements in the flesh of the two 

 specimens I have procured : — 



Male. — Length, 9*3; expanse, 13*7 ; wing, 4*2 • tail, 2*25 ; 

 tarsus, 1*1 ; bill from gape, 1*5. 



Bill black ; legs and feet dark fleshy • irides dark brown. 



f Female. — Length, 96 ; expanse, 14*2; wing, 4*16; tail, 

 22 ; tarsus, 1 "32 ; bill from gape, 1*54. 



Bill horny black ; irides dark brown ; legs, feet, and claws 

 fleshy white. 



350 bis.— Zoothera marginata, Blyth. 



In some places, as for instance on the east flank of the 

 Meplay East Watershed, this species is not uncommon. Out of 

 the Thoungyeen valley I have not met with it. 



A pair, procured 20th December 1879, on the Hteekleethoo 

 choung, measured in the flesh : — 



Male. — Length, 99; expanse, 16 ; wing, 5*15 ; tail, 3*2 ; 

 tarsus, PI ; bill from gape, 15. 



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