BIRDS OP TENASSEKIM. 345 



Mr. Blanford's description is as follows : — 



" Brownish olivaceous above ; supercilium white, extending far 

 back ; a dark line from the lores through the eye to the upper 

 part of the ear-coverts, the lower portions of which are' light 

 brown ; central rectrices very little darker than the back ; outer 

 rectrices and wing feathers earthy brown, margined with olive, 

 which is rufescent on the edges of the quills. There is also a 

 rufescent tinge on the rump. Lower parts silky white ; sides of 

 the breast dusky olivaceous, and the middle of the breast not 

 quite so fine a white as the throat and abdomen, but this may 

 be an individual peculiarity ; lower wing-coverts, axillaries, 

 and forepart of wing white ; bill dark above, pale below ; feet 

 very light coloured. The 5th quill is the longest— it exceeds 

 the first by 0'87 inch, the second by 0-4, the third by 015." 



The bird seems to be not uncommon in Sikhim, whence I 

 have received several specimens, of course from my friend Mr. 

 Mandelli. * 



530.— Orthotomus sutorius, O. B. Forster. (12). 



{Tonghoo, Karennee, Rams.) Pahpoon ; Megaloon ; Letet ; Amherst ; Yea ; 

 Mergui. 



Generally distributed throughout the province, where the 

 country is cultivated, and specially where there are gardens. 



530 ^s.— Orthotomus atrigularis, Tem. (9) ?, 

 Descr. S. F., II., 507 ; III., 325. 



Kyotik-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Tavoy ; Thayetchoung ; Mergui ; Bankasoon ; 

 Malewoon. 



Sparsely distributed throughout the province, but does not 

 ascend the higher hills. 



[The habits of this species are much the same as those of its 

 well-known Indian ally. The chief delight of the male seems 

 to be to work its way to the top of some bush or low tree, and 

 thence, its tail cocked well over its head, to emit continuously 

 its monotonous tink, tink, tink, note. It feeds entirely on in- 

 sects, which however it neither catches on the wing nor hunts 

 for on the ground/to which it never descends. 



I have usually found it in gardens or secondary scrub, but 

 I have also seen it in the depths of forest, where I never saw 

 sutotius. — W. D.] 



I see that Mr. Sharpe, in his recent monograph of the genus 

 Orthotomus, Ibis, 1877, 16, remarks that Lord Walden correctly 

 identified my O. nitidus with fiavoviiidis, Moore. I was how- 

 ever myself the first to make this identification, S. F., III., 325. 

 At page 507, Yol. II., I accurately described what proved to 



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