AND SPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THOUNGYEEN VALLEY. 179 



387 bis. — Trichastoma minus, Sume. 



I have only met this bird on two successive years in one 

 spot, viz., the sources of the Queebaw choung, Meplay river. 



A male measured in the flesh : — Length, 5*9 ; expanse, 8"1 ; 

 wing, 2*49 ; tail, 2*05 ; tarsus, 1*0; bill from gape, 0*8. 



Bill greenish horny above ; lower mandible, legs, and feet 

 fleshy brownish ; irides reddish brown ; gape yellow ; claws 

 horny. 



The following is a note I recorded two years ago : — 



On the 15th March I found a little domed nest made of 

 dried bamboo leaves, and lined with fine roots, placed in a cane 

 bush a foot or so above the ground. It contained three tiny 

 white eggs, with minute piuk dottings chiefly at the larger end ; 

 one egg, however, is nearly pure white. I shot the little bird 

 off the nest which Mr. Hume identifies as this species. 



388 bis. — Alcippe phayrii, Blyth. 



Common enough throughout the Thoungyeen valley. Else- 

 where I have only noticed it on the Yoonzaleen. 



390 quat.— Turdinus crispifrons, Blyth. 

 390 quint. — Turdinus brevicaudatus, Blyth. 



I have little doubt that both these species occur in the 

 Thoungyeen valley, since there are numbers of isolated lime- 

 stone ranges and peaks, on which the former ought to be 

 found ; and as for the latter it has been got at Mooleyit. 

 Personally I myself have never come across these two birds in 

 the Thoungyeen. 



390 sext.— Turdinus guttatus, Tick. 



This bird occurs sparingly in small flocks in thick evergreen 

 or bamboo jungle on the main range and higher spurs of the 

 Dawna. I have procured it at Tounjah on the road from 

 Kaukarit to Meeawuddy, and on the Meplay East Watershed 

 range at the head waters of the Queebaw choung. 



Male. — Length, 7'1 ; expanse, 9'4 ; wing, 2*8 ; tail, 2'55 ; 

 tarsus, 1*02 ; bill from gape, 0"94. 



Bill dark plumbeous, lighter at tip ; irides nut brown ; legs, 

 feet, and claws a greenish yellow brown. 



393 fo's.— Stachyris rufifrons, Hume. 



This species is rare in the Thoungyeen valley. It occurs 

 wherever the jungle is pretty open, allowing an undergrowth 

 of grass to spring up. I have never seen it in evergreen 

 forests. 



