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The lores and feathers under the eye are white, speckled with 

 brown, and so are the feathers immediately surrounding the 

 eye everywhere. The ear-coverts are olive brown, more or 

 less streaked with white, (it varies very much in different 

 specimens,) and the posterior ones tipped black or blackish. 



From the gape and again from the lower edges of the 

 rami of the lower mandible, two narrow dusky olive streaks' 

 run down to the breast, near the breast becoming broader 

 and blacker, These streaks, very apparent in the fresh bird 

 or in very fine specimens, get very much jumbled up in 

 in different ones. The upper two-thirds of the space enclosed 

 between these two stripes on either side, white, regularly 

 and narrowly banded with dusky olive. The entire chin, 

 throat, and front of the neck bounded by the innermost 

 stripe of each pair on either side, white, not very pure, some- 

 times unmarked, sometimes showing traces of banding similar to 

 that on the spaces between the pairs of stripes. Sides'of the neck 

 olive brown, with more or less of black central stripes ; sides of 

 breast and abdomen olive brown ; the feathers with larger or 

 smaller central white markings, sometimes large white oval spots, 

 sometimes mere shaft lines, sometimes almost, if not quite, ob- 

 solete on the sides of the breast. Middle of breast buffy or 

 buffy white ;_ middle of abdomen white ; the feathers of both parts 

 margined with olive brown or olive dusky, imparting a scaly 

 appearance ; lower abdomen, immediately above the vent, pure 

 white ; lower-tail coverts dull olive brown, with larger or smaller 

 buffy white or buffy fawn colored markings, beginning as a shaft 

 line, and expanding towards the tips, where, of course, they are 

 broadest ; in some specimens these markings occupy the greater 

 portion of the feather ; in others they are quite small and in- 

 conspicuous. Lower coverts at the shoulder of the wing and 

 basal halves of axillaries white, with in some a faint buffy Tinge ; 

 rest of axillaries and rest of the coverts, except just at the 

 base of the earlier primaries, moderately dark brown, sometimes 

 olivaceous, and the hinder secondary greater coverts broadly 

 tipped with pale buff. In monticola, the axillaries, though 

 similar, are conspicuously tipped with white, and the band on 

 the inner webs and the tippings to the secondary greater coverts, 

 are white and not buffy. 



351.— Cyanocincla cyana, Lin. (40). 



(Tonghoo Karen Kills, from 2,000 to 4,000 feet, Rams.) Pine forest, Sal ween ; 

 Xolhdoo ; Dargwm ; Thatone ; Myawadee ; Kaukaryit, Houngthraw R. ; Lnrthor- 

 pee; Moul.nem ; Momenzeik , Pabyouk ; Meetan ; Amherst; Lemyne ; Tavoy ; 

 Mergui; Sadjin ; Bopym ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon, 



A very abundant cold weather visitant to every portion of 

 the province. 



