188 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



wings, 2-1 and 20; tails, 1*7 and 2*0; tarsus, 0'78 and 0*7; 

 bills from gape, 065 and 0'57. 



Bill brown ; irides dark brown ; legs, feet, and claws light 

 plumbeous. 



565.— Reguloides superciliosus, Gm. 



Personally I have only observed it in the Thoungyeen valley, 

 where I found it sparsely scattered about the edges of cultiva- 

 tion clearings. 



569 bis. — Cryptolopha tephrocephala, Anders. 



Sparsely scattered through the Thoungyeen. Elsewhere I 

 have not noticed it. 



574 — Abrornis superciliaris, Tick. 



I have shot this bird on the Zammee choung, where I got a 

 nest and eggs, vide infra ; and I have more than once seen it 

 in the Thoungyeen forests. 



The following is an account of a nest I found, recorded in 

 my note book : — 



" Khasat village — Khasat choung. Zammee river, 9th March 

 1878. 



" My camp to-day was pitched in the midst of a dense 

 bamboo brake, close to a path leading to the village. 



"About ten feet from my tent, on this path, passers-by had 

 cut one of the bamboos out of a clump and left it leaning up 

 against it ; between two knots of this a rough hack had broken 

 an irregular hole into a joint. 



" Sitting outside my tent and looking carelessly about, my 

 attention was attracted to what I took to be a leaf fluttering 

 down close to the abovementioned bamboo, which to my surprise 

 disappeared before it reached the ground. Wondering at this, 

 I got up and approached the place, when from the aforemen- 

 tioned hole in the bamboo, out darted a little bird ; and looking 

 in, I saw a neat little nest of fibres placed on the lower knot 

 with three eggs, white, densely speckled, chiefly in a ring at 

 the larger end, with pinkish claret spots. 



" I went back to my tent, watched the bird return, and shot 

 her, as on being frightened off, she flew out a second time. It 

 proved to be the above species. 



" I took the nest and eggs. The latter, I regret to say, were 

 lost subsequently through the carelessness of a servant, but I 

 had luckily measured and taken a description of them. 



" Their dimensions were respectively, 0'57 X 0'42, 0*59 % 

 0-42, and 059 X 0'44." 



