264 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



with almost the whole of both webs of the tertiaries and the 

 outer webs of all the other quills and coverts, overlaid with 

 pure olive brown ; a pure white spot at the tip of each tertiary, 

 and specks of the same at the tips of the later secondaries, the 

 greater secondary coverts and sometimes the median secondary 

 coverts also ; tail olive brown ; the shafts darker. 



390 sext.— Turdinus guttatus, Tick. (7). Descr. S. F., 

 V., 252. 



Meetan. (Malewoon, Oates.) 



Confined to the lower spurs of the central and southern por- 

 tions of the main Tenasserim range. 



[I have only met with this species in the low hills about and 

 just to the north of Meetan, and even there they are not com- 

 mon. Unlike the two former species it does not affect rocky 

 grounds, but the forests in general, and even where these are 

 comparatively open, or composed to a great extent of bamboo, 

 it may be found. It goes about in small parties, and keeps 

 much to the undergrowth, but I have never seen it on the 

 ground. Its food consists, so far as I have observed, of insects. 

 It has a note much resembling that of T. brevicaudatus. It 

 does not, that I am aware, ascend the hills to any height. In 

 habits this species exactly resembles Timalia nigricollis, polio- 

 cephala and maculata, all of which I have watched closely in 

 the Malay Peninsula. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions and colors of the soft parts, 

 recorded in the flesh of 3 males and 3 females: — 



Males. — Length, 6'5 to 6'9 ; expanse, 9'1 to 9*2; tail from 

 vent, 2-1 to 2-3 ; wing, 2*7 to 2'85 ; tarsus, 1*0 to 105 ; bill 

 from gape, 0"9 to 0'92 ; weight, 1*12 to 1-3 oz. 



Females. — Length, 6 -3 to 6*7; expanse, 8'9 to 9*0; tail from 

 vent, 2-3; wing, 2-7 to 2*8; tarsus, 1*0; bill from gape, 085 

 to 0-9 ; weight, 1/0 to 1-25 oz. 



Legs and feet pale dingy green; lower mandible and edge 

 of upper mandible along commissure plumbeous ; rest of bill 

 black ; irides crimson lake. 



391.— Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgs. (4). 



Younzaleen Creek ; Sinzaway ; Meetan ; Tenasserim Town . 



Very sparingly distributed throughout the forests of the 

 province, and not ascending the higher hills. 



[This is a very rare bird in Tenasserim, but apparently occur- 

 rino- from the north to at any rate as far south as Tenasserim town. 

 Those specimens that I observed were always in moderately 

 thick forest, in pairs or singly, keeping much to -the under- 

 growth, especially when this was particularly dense. They 



