BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 117 



The feathers rouud the eye, the ear-coverts, gape, and im- 

 mediately behind the ear are deep ferruginous, more or less 

 streaked with blackish brown ; the rest of the feathers of the 

 top, back, and sides of the neck, including a rather full but 

 short occipital crest, blackish brown. 



The feathered portion of the interscapulary region and the 

 breast blackish brown, almost black ; the wings and scapulars 

 a somewhat paler brown ; rump paler and more drabby brown • 

 shorter upper tail-coverts drab colored, longer ones white ; 

 two central tail feathers drab or greyish drab, with a three- 

 inch white tipping, and a two-and-a-half penultimate black 

 band ; rest of the tail feathers white, with a three-inch black 

 transverse band about a «5 inches from their tip; primaries 

 and secondaries broadly tipped with white ; abdomen, flanks, 

 vent, lower tail-coverts, pure white. 



What little wing-lining there is, is white. 



147 bis— Palseornis magnirostris, Ball. (20). Descr. 

 S. E., I., 60; II., 176. 



(TongTioc ^ Earns.) Salween R. ; Theinzeik ; Thatone j Wimpong ; Moulmein ; 

 rabyouk ; Yea-boo ; Amherst. 



Confined to the central and northern plains portions of 

 the province. 



[The range of this species in Tenasserim is limited. 

 I only observed it about Moulmein, up the Attaran and 

 Salween rivers to a certain distance, but not far, and in the 

 country lying between the Salween and Sittang rivers. I 

 did not observe it as far north as Pahpoon, nor to the 

 south did I see it for any distance south of Moulmein. 

 Where it does occur it is common, but not so common as' 

 melanorhynclms or cyanocephalus, and unlike them it is 

 seldom seen in large flocks, being usually met with in 

 pairs or small parties. It avoids hilly and densely-wooded 

 country, and is most plentiful in dry plains dotted about with 

 deciduous leaved trees, — W. D.] 



I retain all our Tenasserim birds under this name, because, 

 although, as the Marquis of Tweeddale remarks, J. A. S. B., 

 1875, extra No. 55 N., the bills of Andamanese specimens 

 do run constantly larger than those of our bird, yet our birds 

 are nearer to the Andamanese than to any of the Conti- 

 nental Indian species. 



The Insular Singalese P. eupatrius differs from all the 

 Continental races by its much smaller size, and it need not 

 be further referred to here. We have then three species 

 not very dissimilar in size— sivalensis, Hutton ; nipalensis, 

 Hodgson; magnirostris, Ball. 



