BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 133 



The entire top, back aud sides of the neck, olive brown, 

 paler on the sides of the head, darker on the occiput and 

 nape ; chin and throat buffy white, very narrowly aud 

 closely barred with blackish brown ; a black patch at the 

 base of the throat in front running 1 up on each side of the 

 throat a little way, to where, in the male, it meets the red man- 

 dibular stripe ; immediately behind the red mandibular stripe 

 commences a pale creamy buff stripe, which runs down the side 

 of the neck, narrow above, broader below ; breast blackish 

 brown, very narrowly barred, but not near so closely as on the 

 throat, with yellowish white ; abdomen and rest of lower parts 

 a dull, somewhat olivaceous brown, unbarred in the middle of the 

 abdomen, elsewhere barred, more broadly than on the breast, 

 with fulvous white ; upper parts colored much like the occiput, 

 but a rather purer brown ; lesser and most of the median coverts 

 unbarred ; rest of the mantle, back, rump and upper tail-coverts 

 with narrow transverse yellowish white or pale fulvous bars, 

 which in the quills and rectrices are represented by spots or im- 

 perfect bars on both webs, except towards the tips of the earlier 

 primaries where there are no marking's on the inner webs. On 

 the inner webs of the quills towards their bases the spots 

 are much larger. Wing-lining' nearly uniform creamy buff. 



166.— Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, Hodgs. (41). S. F., 

 III., 64. 



(Tonghoo, Kams.) Kollidoo ; Kyouk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Younzaleen Creek; 

 Thatone ; Tavoy ; Thenganee Sakan ; Moulinein ; Yea-boo ; Amherst ; Zadee ; 

 Shymotee 5 Mergui ; Pakchan , Bankasoon. 



Common throughout the province up to elevations of 5,000 feet. 



[Found in all kinds of localities, dense and thin, evergreen 

 aud deciduous forests, clearing's, &c. Captain Feilden has well 

 described the habits of this species, S. F., III., 65. — W. D.] 



Tenasserim specimens are, I think, on the whole nearer the 

 Himalayan than the Southern Indian form delesserti of Malherbe. 

 Which species Tickell's P. guttacristatus (J. A. 8. B., II., 578) 

 belong-ed to must remain doubtful, until further specimens are 

 obtained in Bhorabhum and Dholbum. I have seen no speci- 

 mens of either sultaneus or delesserti thence, but the dimensions 

 given — length 10"5 and bill 1*8 — show clearly that if Tickell's 

 bird was either of these, it belonged to the smaller southern form, 

 for which even the total length is too small. Tickell's name 

 cannot at present be properly applied to any species. 



168.— Muelleripicus pulverulentus, Tem. (21). 



(Karen Hills, Bams; Tonghoo, Lloyd.) Pahpoon ; Younzaleen Creek; 

 Larthorgee ; Thatone ; Amherst ; Pakchan : Bankasoon ; Malewoon ; Kohtoung. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the better-wooded and 

 less-elevated portions of the province and ascending, Ramsay 

 says, the Karen Hills to a considerable elevation, 



