254 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



sides and flanks only tinged on the sides of the breast with olive 

 brown ; and in wanting entirely alike the brown markings on 

 the sides, and the conspicuous brown flank patch figured by 

 Temminck, and conspicuously present in the Formosan bird. 



As regards dimensions, however, and the color of the upper 

 parts, our bird agrees perfectly with Mr. Swinhoe's, and I can 

 only conclude that ours is a perfectly adult female, older than 

 any that has hitherto been described. 



Our bird when shot was not discriminated from ohscurus, 

 with huge flocks of which it was associating. It was not, 

 therefore, measured in the flesh, as great numbers of obscurus 

 had been already measured. The dry skin measures : — • 



Length, 8 - 3; wing, 4*9; tail, 36; tarsus, 1*2 ; bill at front, 

 from frontal bone, 1*02. 



The upper mandible and the tip of the lower mandible black- 

 ish ; rest of lower mandible and edge of upper mandible to- 

 wards the base, yellow ; legs and feet apparently brown, paler 

 on the upper portions of the tarsi. 



A dusky streak commences at the nostrils and continues as 

 a mere line to the lores, where it widens out and occupies the 

 greater portion of these. Between the point of the lores and 

 the nostrils commences a conspicuous white stripe which runs 

 backwards almost to the nape ; a large patch immediately un- 

 der the eye white, divided from a small white patch on the side of 

 the lower mandible by a brown line. The whole of the rest of 

 the upper plumage, except the terminal portions of the prima- 

 ries, and the inner webs of the secondaries, a rich warm 

 olive brown, deepest, and with a warmer shade on the head ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of the neck similar, but a few of the 

 former with greyish white shafts towards their bases, and the 

 latter with the grey bases of the feathers, showing through a 

 little ; chin pure white ; upper part of middle of throat ditto, 

 with a few very narrow tiny olive brown streaks. 



Sides of the upper throat, and the whole of the rest of the 

 throat grey, closely streaked with olive brown, the streaks being 

 smaller and less close on the median portion ; breast, abdomen, 

 sides, and flanks a clear grey ; some of the feathers on one side 

 of the breast suffused towards their tips with the olive of the 

 back. Middle of lower part of abdomen, vent, and lower tail- 

 coverts pure white, the latter grey brown towards their bases, 

 and the brown running downwards along the margins of the 

 feathers, the brown not visible unless the coverts are disturbed. 

 The wing-lining and axillaries are excessively pale grey brown ; 

 the inner margins of the quills on their lower surfaces something 

 similar, but with perhaps a faint fulvous tinge ; tibial plumes 

 pale yellowish brown ; the extreme, outer margins of the three 

 first quills are very pale, not greyish but with a fawny tinge. 



