250 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



assume it, is altogether dropped in raatuver age, this, coupled with 

 the facts above stated, seems to me to give the coup de grace to 

 this supposed species. 



351 Us.— Cyanocincla solitaria, Mull. (12). 



Kyouk-nyat ; Palipoon ; Khyketo ; Thoungsha Gyne E. ; Meetan ; Amherst j 

 Zadee ; Pakchan; Bankasoon. 



Occurring as a cold weather visitant throughout the province. 



[Only a cold weather visitant, departing about the same time 

 as the preceding, and resembling it in habits, being very 

 partial to ruins and rocks ; the dried trees standing about old 

 clearings are also a favorite resort. One never sees two of 

 these Blue Rock Thrushes together, but you always meet with 

 both supposed species in the same tract. — W. D.] 



352.— Orocetes erythrogaster, Vig. 



Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay notes (P. Z. S., 1876, 677) 

 that a specimen of this species was procured by some member 

 of the recent Karennee-bonndary expedition ; but this may of 

 course have been (the locality was not noted) somewhere just 

 outside the limits to which the present list refers. 



355.— Geocichla citrina, Lath. (23). 



ifTonghoo, Karennee, Rams.) Amherst ; Yea ; Pakchan j~ Bankasoon ; 

 Malewoon. 



Apparently confined in Tenasserim proper to the southern half 

 of the province, and there to the neighbourhood of the coast, 

 but reappearing in the extreme north in the recently incorporat- 

 ed tracts. 



[Occurring from Amherst southwards, but nowhere very plen- 

 tifully. It keeps to the forest, but to the more open portions, 

 along the beds of streams, near the forest paths, &c. It feeds 

 usually on the ground, turning over the dead leaves hunting for 

 insects which chiefly constitute its food. — W. D.] 



Blytb/s species, G. innotata, from the Malayan Peninsula, 

 appears to me to be a very doubtful species. The full description 

 will be found quoted S. F., I., 69. 



The points relied on are greater intensity of coloration, no 

 white upon the wings, and lower tail-coverts only, and not 

 the vent also, white. We have never succeeded in obtaining 

 specimens which we could satisfy ourselves were distinct from 

 citrina. 



As regards the white on the lower parts, some specimens 

 of citrina have the entire flanks, lower abdomen, vent and 

 lower tail-coverts snow white ; such is a specimen now before 

 me killed at Bankasoon, 13th December 1875 ; this has a huge 



