200 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



In tLis species, the sexes apparently differ only, so far as 

 plumage is concerned, in the males having a brighter, larger and 

 more flame-colored crown patch, which in the females is smaller 

 and more orange. Here again I trust to Davison, who only 

 sexed one adult female. 



The lores are greyish ; the whole of the top of the head, (exclud- 

 ing the scarlet or flame-colored crown patch,) the back and sides 

 of the neck, back, rump, lesser and median coverts and upper tail- 

 coverts, a moderately bright olive green, yellower on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; quills and their greater coverts and tail 

 feathers, pale hair brown, margined, except towards the tips of 

 the earlier primaries, with much the same color as the upper tail- 

 coverts. In some specimens there is a distinct narrow white line 

 running through the lores. Cheeks and ear-coverts somewhat 

 greyer olive green ; a broad white mandibular stripe from the 

 base of the lower inaudible ; chin white, continued as a broad 

 whitish or pale yellow streak down the middle of the throat ; 

 lower tail-coverts, feathers of the vent, and a broad stripe down 

 the middle of the body clear yellow, much brighter in some 

 specimens, duller in others, always more iutense on the breast ; 

 sides of the throat, sides of the breast, abdomen and flanks dull 

 greyish olive green, more or less streaked with pale yellowish or 

 greenish white. 



240 seat. — Prionochilus modestus, Hume. (10). Descr. 

 S. F., III., 298. 



Amherst ; Mergui ; Malewoon. 



[This species is also confined to quite the south of the province, 

 occurring only at Mergui and to the south of that place. It was 

 somewhat more common than the preceding species, but could 

 not be accounted a common bird. I never met with it myself in 

 the Malay Peninsula, but obtained a single specimen from a 

 dealer in Malacca. — W. D.] 



241. — Myzanthe ignipectus, Rodgs. (3). 



(Karennee, 4,000 feet, Earns.) Mooleyit. 



Only found near the summit of Mooleyit, and again high up 

 in the continuation of the same range, in Karennee. 



[I had few opportunities of observiug this species ; their habits 

 appeared to be those of Dicceum, and their sharp note precisely 

 similar. — W. D.J 



215.— Oerthia discolor, Blyth. S. F., V., 7Q, 78. 



Obtained by Ramsay in Karennee at from 5,000 to 6,000 feet 

 Not as yet observed elsewhere. 



