256 BIRDS OF TENASSEUIM. 



Mi*. Dresser thus describes what he considers an adult female 

 and a young male : — 



" Adult Female. — Upper parts warm hair-brown, with a faint 

 olivaceous tinge ; crown darker, and the feathers on the back 

 with somewhat dai'ker centres ; a dull yellowish indistinct streak 

 passes over and behind the eye ; quills dark brown, externally 

 margined with warm reddish olivaceous; spurious wing dark 

 towai'ds the tip, and wing-coverts tipped with warm ochraceous ; 

 tail dark brown, the upper surface with an olivaceous tinge, the 

 outer rectrix with a terminal patch of white on the inner web ; 

 sides of the head white, with a yellowish tinge, and spotted with 

 brown ; chin yellowish white, bounded by a dark brown streak 

 from the base of the lower mandible ; rest of the under parts 

 white ; the throat washed with yellowish ; throat, breast, and 

 flanks marked with semilunar brown markings ; centre of the 

 abdomen pure white ; under tail-coverts white, slightly varied 

 with brown ; the characteristic oblique bar on the under surface 

 of the wing yellowish white, and not pure white. Culmen, 0'85 

 inch; wing, 4'6 ; tail, 3*45; tarsus, \-%. 



Young Male. — Upper parts as in the adult male, and duller, 

 and tinged, especially on the head, with brown ; superciliary 

 stripe narrow and yellowish white; throat and sides of the 

 head as in the female ; rest of the underparts as in the old male, 

 bat paler and duller ; the upper part of the breast marked with 

 light yellowish brown as in the female." 



Quite young males appear to be like the females, and later 

 they are met with in all kinds of parti-colored plumage com- 

 bining patches of the black or cyaneous dusky of the male with 

 the plumage of the female. 



370. — Oreocincla molissiraa, Bly. 



Obtained by Ramsay at Tonghoo and in Karennee at 5,000 

 feet, but not as yet observed anywhere in Tenasserim proper. 



371. — Oreocincla darnna, Lath. (2). 



(Tonghoo, Karennee, at 5,000 fret, Rams.) Paradubn ; Mooleyit. 



A rare straggler during the cold season to the northern and 

 central portions of the province, probably chiefly to the slopes 

 of the higher hills. 



Our specimens appear to be dauma. They are rather a 

 more golden brown and slightly brighter colored altogether 

 than Himalayan ones ; and I think they are somewhat larger 

 also, but they are not varia, a species which I have at last had 

 an opportunity of examining having, by Mr. Brooks' kindness, 

 obtained a specimen, a male, killed at Cheefoo, on the 6th 

 October 1873, I believe, from Mr. Swiuhoe's museum. 



