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greyish white, the feathers more or less margined with grey or 

 greyish brown, and generally a little mingled with green on the 

 breast; middle of abdomen, vent and lower tail-coverts silky white, 

 the middle of the abdomen a little streaked with pale yellow ; sides 

 of the body more or less, it varies much in different specimens, 

 streaked or shaded with olive or greyish olive ; axillaries and wing- 

 lining whitish ; at bases tinted with very pale perhaps slightly 

 ochraceeous yellow ; inner margins of quills greyish white. 



448. — Hemixus flavala, Hodgs. 



Blyth gives this from Tenasserim, but he doubtless preferred 

 to either the northern or southern Tenasserim allied races H. 

 hildebrandi and H. davisoni. 



448 bis. — Hemixus hildebrandi, Hume (l). Descr. 

 S. F., II., 508. 



{Karen Hills, at 2,o00 feet, Rams.) Pine forests, Sal ween. 



Confined to the hill forests of the northern portions of the 

 province. 



448 ter.— Hemixus davisoni, Hume. (1). Descr. 

 S. !\, V., 111. 



Thoungya Sakan. 



Confined to the hill forests of the southern portions of the 

 province. 



449.— Alcurus striatus, Blyth. (5). 



{Karen Hills, 5,000 feet, Rams.) Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently in Tenasserim proper to the highest por- 

 tions of Mooleyit, but re-appearing at similar elevations in the 

 extreme north in the continuation of this same range. 



[ I occasionally met with this bird on the higher slopes of 

 Mooleyit, usually in small parties, sometimes in pairs, or singly. 

 They kept to the tops of the higher trees, flying from tree to 

 tree, and chattering much after the manner of Hypsipetes. The 

 only one whose stomach I examined had eaten a number of small 

 berries, and nothing else, though probably like the rest of the 

 Bulbuls they do eat insects as well as fruit. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c., recorded in the flesh of 

 1 male and 3 females : — 



Male. — Length, 8-6 ; expanse, 12*25 ; tail from vent, 3*7* 

 wing, 4*1 * tarsus; 0'8 • bill from gape, 10- weight, 1'75 oz. 



Females. — Length, 8*4 to 8'9 ; expanse, 12-0 to 12*5 ; tail 

 from vent, 36 to 37 ; wing, 3-8 to 4-0- tarsus, 0*7 to 0*8 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'95 to 1*0; weight, 1*6 to 1*8 oz. 



