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some specimens it is u dark slaty blue; in others a compara- 

 tively light slaty grey. 



411. — Garrulax albogularis, Gould. 



Blyth (B. of B., p. 108) gives this species from Tavoy. We 

 have either seen nor heard of it anywhere about Tavoy. 



412 —Garrulax pectoralis, Qould. (1). S. F., III., 122. 



(Karennee, Rams.) Meetan. 



Davison never saw more than this single specimen, which he 

 recognized the moment he saw it by its greater size, and shot 

 out of a mixed flock of belangeri and moniliger. Both before 

 and after this he was always on the look-out for it, but never 

 saw a second specimen. This seems very strano-e. 



413.— Garrulax moniliger, Hodgs. (19). 



(Karen Bills, Rams ) Pahpoon ; Salween R. ; Thatone ; Wimpong • Myawa- 

 dee ; Kaukaryit, Houngthravr R. ; Pabyouk ; Assoon ; Amherst ; Tea ; Tavoy. 



Very common throughout the northern and central portions of 

 the province, but not as a rule ascending the hills at all. 



[In all its habits, in its food and associations, this species is 

 inseparable from belangeri, but its voice is less harsh, and it is 

 not nearly so noisy a bird. I have never, however by the way, 

 seen this species dancing as belangeri does, nor does it leave the 

 plains. It seems to stop entirely, quite at the bases of the hills, 

 while belangeri ascends these to at least 2,500 feet. — W. D.] 



It is be remarked that this species varies towards the Chinese 

 race (picticollis) as it goes southwards, in so far that in all Am- 

 herst specimens, for instance, the tips of the lateral tail-feathers 

 are ochraceous instead of being white. I also note that this Am- 

 herst race is paler and more fulvous above, and has the nuchal 

 rufous collar much more strongly marked as a rule. 



415 ter.— Trochalopteron melanostigma, Blyth. (25). 



{Karennee, Rams.) Pine forests, Sa'ween ; Paraduba ; Mooleyit ; Meetan. 



Confined to the hill forests of the northern and central por- 

 tions of the province. 



[This species, except perhaps in the nesting season, is always 

 found in small parties of six or eight. They feed chiefly on the 

 ground, keeping much in the brushwood, rarely flying into trees 

 unless pressed by dogs ; neither a very noisy nor very silent 

 bird, uttering from time to time its fine whistling call, which 

 greatly resembles that of the species ( T. erythrocephalum) that 

 we get about Simla. By no means a shy bird, and rather com- 

 mon on the hills from 3,000 feet and upwards (not seen in the 



