258 BIRDS OT TENASSERIM. 



Legs and feet and claws clear plumbeous blue ; upper mandi- 

 ble and tip and edges of lower mandible along commissure, 

 light horny brown ; rest of lower mandible fleshy pink ; irides 

 deep wood brown; orbital skin bright smalt blue. 



378 bis.— Suthora- ? 



Davison met with a small flock of SutJioras just at the base of 

 the cone of Mooleyit, but failed to secure a specimen. He 

 noticed that the heads were bright rufous, with a dark stripe on 

 each side of the crown. The species was probably S. muni- 

 purensis, God.-Aust. (Descr. S. F., IV., 216) with which S. 

 daflaensis, of the same authority, (Descr. S. F., IV., 490) is 

 now said to be identical. 



384 bis.— Grampsorhynchus torquatus, Hume. (1). 

 Descr. Pr. A. S. B., 1874, 107, and S. 1\, II., 446. 



(? Karennee, Earns.) Younzaleen Creek. 



Confined to the northern portions of the province, and there 

 very rare. 



[I only met with a party of these birds on one occasion on 

 the banks of the Younzaleen, north of Pahpoon ; they were in 

 thin jungle largely intermixed with bamboos. — W. D.] 



No second specimen of this species has been obtained by us, 

 as we have not been able to re-visit the locality in which it occurs; 

 but, after re-comparing it with a very large series of Himalayan 

 birds, I cannot avoid the conclusion that it is distinct. No 

 single Himalayan bird approaches it, either in its well-marked 

 torque or in the tint of the rufous of the nape, &c. ; and, until 

 I can approximately match it with some Himalayan specimens, 

 or can obtain other specimens from the same locality which 

 agree with Himalayan specimens, I thiuk it ought to be retain- 

 ed as distinct. 



Blyth enters Gampsorhynclius rufulus from Tenasserim, but 

 it is not likely that two such closely-affined species should occur 

 in the same locality ; and therefore, so long as I retain torquatus, 

 I do not think it necessary to enter rufulus separately in the list. 

 I am in doubts as to whether the Gampsorhynclius obtained 

 by Ramsay, in Karennee, was rufulus or torquatus. 



385.— Pyctoris sinensis, Gm. (3). 



(Karennee, Rams.) Kyouk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Beeling. 



Confined to the northern half of the province, and rare even 

 there. 



[I found this bird rare in Tenasserim, and occurring only to 

 the north of Moulmein, frequenting grass clumps and thick 

 low scrub, generally in small parties or in pairs. — W. D.] 



