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Occurs as a cold weather visitant throughout the province, 

 and is then not uncommon in gardens and the more open 

 portions of the country. 



261 bis. — Lanius lucionensis, Lin. (l). Descr. S. F., 

 II., 199. 



Malewoon, 



A rare straggler to the southernmost extremity of the 

 province. 



263.— Tephrodornis pelvica, Eodgs. (39). S. E., Ill, 

 92. 



(Karen Hills, Rams.) Kollidoo ; Pahpoon ; Myawadee ; Kaukaryifc, Houngthraw 

 R. ; Topee ; E-poo ; Moulrnein ; Pabyouk ; Ngabsemah ; Paraduba; Meetan ; 

 Amherst ; Yea ; Zadee ; Meeta Myo ; Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon. Malewoon. 



Common throughout the province, but not ascending the 

 higher hills. 



[This Woodslirike occurs throughout the province in all 

 kinds of localities where there are any trees. It is found at 

 times in pairs, more often in small parties of from six to eight. 

 It feeds entirely on insects, for which it industriously hunts 

 the leaves and branches of trees, never capturing any on 

 the wing. It is an extremely stupid bird, not minding the 

 report of a gun in the least; so that when you meet a party 

 you may shoot the whole lot. They are very restless ; always 

 on the move, and such silent birds that I cannot remember 

 ever to have heard their note. — W. D.] 



Although I have entered all our specimens as pelvica, they 

 a: e neither all quite alike, nov are any of them quite identical 

 with specimens from Nepal and Sikim. Beginning at the 

 north at Kollidoo where the birds are largest, the majority 

 are somewhat smaller, and specially have slenderer bills than 

 Himalayan examples ; as you proceed southwards, the birds 

 grow distinctly smaller in size, and begin to acquire more of 

 an ashy tinge on the back. In Sikim specimens, and indeed 

 in those from Kollidoo, the grey is confined to the head and 

 neck ; but in the most southerly examples from Bankasoon a 

 certain amount of grey on the back, which is characteristic of 

 the more southern gularis, begins to appear. In this re- 

 spect, however,all our specimens are nearer to pelvica than gularis ; 

 but as regards size some of our southern birds are not separable 

 from gularis. I have little doubt that, between the Pakchan and 

 Malacca, the most northern locality in the Malay Peninsula from 

 which we have specimens, the two species will be found to grade 

 perfectly into each other. Our forty specimens from various 

 parts of Tenasserim grade so absolutely the one into the other, 

 that it is quite impossible to separate them. 



