346 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



be the females and young males of this species under the for- 

 mer name. I have only to add that in the adult males, at 

 any rate in breeding plumage, probably at all seasons, the great- 

 er portion of the foreneck, upper breast and sides of the 

 breast are streaked with slaty dusky. In other respects I have 

 nothing to add to my former description. 



530 for.— Orthotomus ruficeps, Less. (4), 



Malewoon. 



A rare straggler just inside our southern boundary. 



The following are dimensions, &c., of this species recorded in 

 the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 5° 12 to 52 ; expanse, 65 ; tail from vent, 1*5 

 to 1'75; wing, V82to 2'0 ; tarsus, 0'8 to 0'85; bill from gape, 

 075 to 0-8 ; weight, 0-35 oz. 



Females. — Length, 5'0; expanse, 6"2 ; tail from vent, 14; 

 wing, 1'82 ; tarsus, 0*8 ; bill from gape, 0'8 ; weight, 03 oz. 



The colors of the soft parts in the males were not recorded. 

 Both females had the lower mandible fleshy pink ; upper man- 

 dible horny brown. One female had the legs and feet fleshy 

 pink ; the other had the feet, claws and back of tarsi fleshy, 

 front of tarsi pale brown ; in one the irides were salmon, in the 

 other deep brown. 



The entire lower parts, including the cheeks and ear-coverts, 

 silky white, with a delicate fulvous tinge on abdomen and 

 lower tail-coverts, and sometimes on the sides of the throat 

 and ear-coverts ; tibial plumes pale ferruginous ; entire cap 

 bright ferruginous ; tail pale chestnut, with a large oval black 

 spot towards the tip, running up to a point on the shaft ; 

 upper tail-coverts slightly rufescent brown ; back, rump, scapu- 

 lars slightly olivaceous ashy ; wings pale, somewhat earthy 

 brown ; feathers margined with much the same color as the back ; 

 wing- lining white, a little brownish towards the edge of the 

 wing ; inner margins of quills, except towards the bases, white. 

 The sexes appear to be precisely alike, except that the males in 

 my specimens seem to want the black spot on the tail which 

 is pi-esent in the females. 



For remarks on this genus, see Mr. F. Moore's paper, P. Z. S., 

 1854, 81, and Mr. K Bowdler Sharpe's paper, Ibis, 1877, 

 108. 



531.— Orthotomus coronatus, Jerd and Bly. (4). 



Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently to the higher slopes of Mooleyit, though 

 Ramsay obtained it in the Tsankoo Kills, which, however, I 

 believe are now held to be outside our boundary. 



