306 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



the feathers with much the same color as the upper tail-coverts, 

 and with the outermost three pairs of feathers on either side 

 with a yellowish white spot at the tips almost confined to the 

 inner webs ; inner webs of quills dark hair brown ; outer webs 

 and the greater part of both webs of tertiaries yellowish olive, 

 faintly rufescent perhaps on the tertiaries, paler and yellower 

 at the extreme margins of the quills, but more the color of the 

 upper back on the coverts. 



452 bis.— Ixus flavescens, Blyth. (10). 



(Tonghoo Hills, Karennee, at 2,500 to 4,000 feet, Rams.) Pine forests, Salween; 

 Kollidoo; Pahpoon ; Younzaleen Creek; Half way between Mooleyit and 

 Paraduba. 



Confined to the hilly portions of the northern and central 

 sections of the province, not ascending above 4,500 feet elevation. 

 [This species avoids the denser portions of the forest, keeping 

 to their outskirts, or to scrub jungle. They are almost always 

 found singly or in pairs, occasionally in small parties, feeding 

 principally on small berries. They are not noisy birds, though 

 the note, a chirruping whistle, may very frequently be heard. 

 I have also heard them make a feeble attempt at a song wdien 

 perched on some dry exposed branch or spray. I have never 

 seen them descend to the ground, or even into any very low 

 brushwood. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 

 Males. — Length, 8'4 to 8 "75 ; expanse, 10*75 to 11*4; tail 

 from vent, 4-05 to 4*5 ; wing, 3 - 45 to 3-5 ; tarsus, 0*82 to 0*85 ; 

 bill from gape, 0-8 to 0-85 ; weight, 1'05 to 1-25 oz. 



Females. — Length, 8"25 ; expanse, 10*5; tail from vent, 3*6 

 to 4*12 ; wing, 3'37 to 34 ; tarsus, 0'8 ; bill from gape, 0*75 ; 

 weight, 12 oz. 



The legs, feet and claws vary from very dark reddish 

 or purplish brown to black ; the bill black ; irides brown to deep 

 red brown. 



A dusky brown spot in front of the eye ; the rest of the 

 lores pale ochraceous or fulvous white ; an obscure white line 

 above and below the eye nearly meeting behind, but not in 

 front; chin, throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, dull pale somewhat 

 greyish brown, in some greyer and darker, and in some more 

 fulvous : in some specimens the chin and throat is markedly more 

 fulvous, in others greyer and more albescent ; vent and lower 

 tail-coverts bright yellow ; breast, abdomen, and sides dull 

 yellow, and dull olive green or olive brown, streakily inter- 

 mingled ; flanks more distinctly olivaceous and unstriated ; the 

 strise are narrow and close in some specimens, broad in others, 

 in some obscure, in others strongly marked ; the edge of the wing 

 is generally bright yellow ; the wing-lining is pale, generally 



