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brown ; the earlier primaries and their greater coverts mar- 

 gined with greyish white. The rest of the feathers, coverts and 

 quills margined on, or with the whole, outer webs olive brown. 

 Tail-feathers hair brown, the central ones with a faint olive tinge 

 on their outer webs, sometimes on both webs, and the lateral 

 leathers margined towards their bases with olive. The outer 

 two feathers on either side with a narrow white band at the tips 

 across the corner of the inner webs; and, as a rule, these and most 

 of the rest of the tail feathers excessively narrowly margined 

 along the whole tips with white, or pale greyish brown. The 

 breast, (except the central portions of the lower breast) the sides 

 of the abdomen, and upper part of the flanks, dull, pale, somewhat 

 ochi-aceous buff. Middle of lower portion of breast, middle of 

 abdomen, vent, lower portion of flanks and lower tail-coverts, pure 

 white ; the latter more or less of a grey brown towards their bases, 

 which, when the feathers are disturbed, show through; feathers of 

 the tibial plumes pale greyish brown, fringed at the tips with grey- 

 ish white ; axillaries and wing-lining delicate pale grey, some of 

 the feathers fringed whitish at their tips. 



The females differ as already pointed out, have no grey on the 

 sides of the head, none on the occiput and nape, which are uniform 

 with the back, and further have the ochraceous buff of the lower 

 surface, I think, a little less pure. 



Younger birds have the ear-coverts all white shafted, and have 

 conspicuous though narrow white tips to the secondary greater 

 coverts. 



I may note that Turdus chrysolaus, a bird very likely to occur 

 in the Tenasserim Hills, is extremely like the present species, 

 but has the whole top, back and sides of the head, chin and throat 

 olive brown like the back, wants the white eyebrow, and has 

 the breast more ferruginous, and the sides and upper part of the 

 flanks decided ferruginous. 



369 ter.— Turdus pallidus, Gm. (i). 



{Karennee, at 5,000 feet, Earns.) Mooleyit. 



_ Apparently a rare straggler during the cold season to the 

 higher ranges of the province. 



We only procured one specimen, a female, which I provision- 

 ally thus identify. Assuming that Turdus daulias, of Temminck 

 (P. C, 515, and T. and S., Faun. Jap. 62, pi. XXVI.) is 

 identical with pallidus of Gmelin, and this I think Latham's 

 (alas ! too brief) original description renders probable, then our 

 specimen differs from all plates and descriptions of this spe- 

 cies, and from a Formosan specimen from Mr. Swinhoe, in 

 having a most^ conspicuous white eyebrow, almost from nos- 

 trils to nape ; in its delicate pure grey breast, upper abdomen, 



