236 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



336.— Brachypteryx nipalensis, Eodgs. (7). 



Mooleyit. 



Only observed near the summit of Mooleyit, where common, 

 [I always met with two of these tog-ether, and the curious 

 thing is that I never saw a blue one, and that all the birds I 

 killed, and they were all brown, were males. They keep entirely 

 to the ground, hopping about amongst the dead leaves and moss 

 or on fallen trunks, and picking up insects, just like the common 

 Larvivora. They are found only in dense forests, by preference on 

 the banks of streams ; not shy, hopping off out of sight when 

 you get near, never flying except when suddenly startled, and 

 then dropping behind the first little bush. I never remember 

 to have heard them utter any note. — W. D.] 



Mooleyit specimens (males, I suppose young) are absolutely 

 identical with Sikkim females. 



338. — Brachypteryx cruralis, Big. 



Obtained by Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee at 5,000 feet. 



343. — Myiophoneus temmincki, Vig, 



Lord Tweeddale says that Ramsay obtained this in the Karen 

 Hills, and it is quite possible that this and not the next species occurs 

 there, but when he goes on to say (B. of B., p. 98) that M. eugenei, 

 Hume, is synonymous, he is simply under a mistake, and can 

 never have seen eugenei, of which we have since obtained a 

 fine series, and which is as clearly distinct as any species can 

 well be. (See also S. P., V., 113 n.) 



343 Us.— Myiophoneus eugenei, Hume. (14). Descr. 



S. F., I., 475. 



Pine forests, Salween ; Kollidoo ; Kyouk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Wimpong ; Thoung- 

 Eha Gyne E. ; Paracluba. 



Confined to the hills and isolated limestone rocks of the 

 northern and central portions of the province. 



[Occurring in hills and in the plains in the neighbourhood 

 of the various isolated limestone outcrops. In the hills, like its 

 Indian congener, it was usually found about mountain torrents 

 and rocky ravines. Its notes and habits are also quite similar 

 to those of the Indian bird. About the limestone rocks their 

 are no torrents, and there they keep about the brushwood, 

 chiefly near their bases. They feed largely on small landshells, 

 which are extremely abundant about these rocks, and it is 

 this great supply of their favourite food which, I believe, 

 attracts them to these, apparently, otherwise scarcely congenial 



