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the whole of the white of the breast and abdomen is a little 

 less pure than in the preceding species. 



This smaller species does not, so far as we yet know, occur 

 any where in Tenasserim. The larger species just enters this 

 province, and is found within its extreme southern limits, though 

 even here it is not found in large numbers. 



396 quat.— Malacopteron ferruginosum, Blyth. (3). 



Pakohan ; Malewoon. 



Also entirely confined to the neighbourhood of the Pak- 

 chan. 



[A very rare bird in Tenasserim, and occurring only iu the 

 dense forests of the extreme south. In habits it is like Trichas- 

 toma, and keeps habitually on the ground, only flying up into 

 the bushes and trees when disturbed. 



I never heard the note that I am aware. I never met with 

 this species in the Malay Peninsula. — W. D.l 



We only obtained two adult females of this species and one 

 nestling ; but, so far as I know, the sexes do not differ. This is 

 the bird that I referred to as bicolor of Lesson, Stray Feathers, 

 II., 536. 



Our birds are identical with Blyth's type of ferruginosum, 

 with which I compared them ; but, as Salvadori mentions, it is 

 doubtful whether Lesson's bird, of which he gives the dimensions 

 as only 5*5 inches, is identical with the present species, and I 

 therefore retain our birds for the present under Blyth's name, 

 which undoubtedly pertains to them. 



The following are dimensions, &c, of the females, obtained 

 by Davison at Malewoon and on the Pakchan. 



Length, 6-25 to 6'85 ; expanse, 9*25 to 975 ; tail from vent, 

 2*25 to 2-5 ; wing, 2 85 to 3-Q ; tarsus, T05 ; bill from gape, 

 0-82 to 0-9 ; weight, 0*8 oz. 



Legs and feet fleshy white ; upper mandible dirty white ; lower 

 mandible dark brown ; irides pale wood brown. 



The lores, sordid white; eyelid feathers white ; entire top and 

 back of the head ferruginous ; back and upper portion of sides 

 of neck, back, scapulars, rump and lesser wing-coverts along 

 the ulna, rusty or ferruginous olive; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail bright chestnut; wings hair brown ; outer webs of all the 

 feathers and both webs of the tertiaries a duller and browner 

 chestnut, and the outer webs of the earlier primaries paler and 

 more fulvous ; cheeks and ear-coverts like the head ; in one 

 specimen the occiput is darker, and has an olivaceous tinge on 

 it ; the ear-coverts also have an olivaceous tinge ; entire lower 

 parts white, suffused brownish or reddish across the breast, with 

 a trace of the same on the sides of the abdomen ; sides of the 



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