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with a ferrruginous tinge ; tail a brighter or duller chestnut; the 

 margins of the feathers and the longer upper tail-coverts a 

 bright or deep ferruginous red; wings pale hair brown; both 

 webs of the tertiaries and the outer webs of all the other feathers 

 more or less broadly margined with a faintly rusty olive, the 

 outer webs of the earlier longer primaries being paler ; the 

 chin and throat are white, but the base of the throat 

 is generally a little streaked with ashy olive; the breast is 

 white, more or less suffused with pale brown or ashy olive, or 

 a mixture of the two, producing the effect of an ill-defined 

 pectoral band ; in some specimens almost entirely wanting in 

 the middle of the breast. 



The whole of the rest of the lower parts, even the tibial 

 plumes, are white ; the sides and flanks are more or less shaded 

 with the color of the pectoral band ; sometimes the tibial plumes 

 are a little mingled with pale brown ; the wing-lining is white, 

 with a faint fulvous tinge, and the inner margins of the quills, 

 except of the terminal portions of the earlier primaries, creamy 

 white to pale fulvous ; the edge of the wing at the carpal joint 

 is white. 



The appearance of the head in this species varies a good deal ; 

 in some it is distinctly squamated ; in some it is a nearly uni- 

 form olive, scarcely darker than the back ; in some there is a 

 perceptible rufescent tinge on the back of the occiput. The 

 feathers are very tender in this species, and, specially on the 

 nape, have a good deal of the greyish white or pale grey bases 

 of the feathers showing through, giving a pale appearance to 

 that part, except in very good specimens. 



396 sept.— Drymocataphus nigricapitatus, Eyton. 

 (2). 



Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



A rare straggler into the extreme southern portions of the 

 province. 



[I always fouud this bird singly, or in pairs ; most often singly, 

 and always on the ground. Even when disturbed it does not 

 take refuge in trees or bushes, but moves rapidly away along the 

 ground; if hard pressed they fly some distance, but invariably 

 alight on the ground. When disturbed they often, but not always, 

 utter a long drawn single note, somewhat after the manner of 

 Turdinus brevicaudatus, but quite distinct for all that. They 

 are shy birds, frequenting only the densest portions of the forest, 

 and specially addicted to dense cane brakes. Their food con- 

 sists of insects, such as auts and their larvae, &c. 



Although so rare in Tenasserim, I shot numbers further south 

 in the Malay Peninsula, and had abundant opportunities of 



