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Certainly the birds are not altogether the same as the Indian 

 rubecitloides ; even the color of the breast differs, being, as a rule, 

 more of a golden rufous than in the Indian birds, but for the 

 present at any rate it seems best to retain them under Vigors' 

 name of rubeculoides. 



305 & 306.— Cyornis tichelU, Bly. 



This species is said by the Marquis of Tweeddale to have been 

 obtained in Karenuee by Ramsay. This is utterly out of the 

 range (very well defined) of this species, and I cannot avoid 

 suspecting that there has been some accidental oversight in the 

 identification of the specimen referred to. 



307 ter. —Cyornis olivacea, Hume. (7). Descr. S. I\, 

 V., 338. 



Tenasserim Town ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southernmost portions of the province. 



[This species, like its other congeners, keeps to the forest or 

 its outskirts, and is usually seen singly. True Flycatchers they 

 perch on commanding twigs, whence they capture passing in- 

 sects with short sharp flights, returning to the same perch. Not 

 unfrequently they may be seen flying from branch to branch, 

 evidently not feeding, and as they alight, lowering their wings, 

 jerking their tails, and uttering their peculiar prolonged chir-r-r. 



I have never seen one t on the ground, though often in low 

 brushwood. — W. D.] 



308.— -Cyornis magnirostris, Blyth. (6). 



Laynah ; Hankachin ; Bankasoon j Malewoon ; Victoria Poinb. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province, and rare there. 

 [Habits precisel}' those of its congeners. — W. D.] 



309 bis.— Cyornis vivida, Swinh. (9). 



Mooleyit. 



Only met with on the highest portions of Mooleyit. 

 [This is not quite so much of a Flycatcher as the other Cy- 

 ornis, though it also captures its prey on the wing. I have seen it 

 moving about the tops of the trees by short flights, and sitting 

 about like Niliava grandis. I never saw a pair together or 

 even two males. I always met with them singly. On Mooleyit 

 they were very eommon, but I unfortunately mistook them for 

 Niltava sundara, and only shot a few. Those I dissected had 

 eaten nothing but insects. They were very often in low bushes ; 

 but never, so far as I saw, actually descending to the ground. 

 They were not in the least shy or wild ; on the contrary very 

 tame. I never heard them utter any note. — W. D.] 



