348 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



the whole of the loves and the greater part of the ear-coverts 

 greyish white ; that one is from the Bhootan Dooars, but I 

 think that one in every five birds show some trace of a pale 

 line from the nostrils through the upper part of the lores. 

 One specimen before me has the white line strongly on one 

 side of the head, while on the other it is only indicated by two 

 or three greyish white dots. 



536 for.— Prima rufula, God.- dust. (3). Descr. S. F., 

 Ill, 397. 



Kollidoo ; Salween R. 



Confined to the more open parts of the northern portions of 

 the province. 



[I met with a small flock of this species in some low bushes 

 on the banks of the Salween at Kollidoo. They did not differ 

 in their habits from other Prinias that I could see. — W. D.] 



The specimens that in an earlier list I entered under P. 

 gracilis, Frankl., remarking at the same time that they would 

 probably require to be separated from this species, I now refer, 

 after comparison with specimens from the Khasia Hills, to the 

 present species, which is intermediate between gracilis and 

 hodgso?ii, but has a smaller and slenderer bill than either. The 

 upper surface of the bird most resembles gracilis, but it is 

 rather darker; the lower surface more resembles hodgsoni, 

 but the grey band on the chest is generally broader, and 

 always less intense in color and less well defiued. 



In all Tenasserim specimens, moreover, the chin and throat 

 and abdomen have a pale fulvous tinge. This is not observable 

 in my Khasia Hill specimens, which have these parts white as 

 in hodgsoni, but Major Godwin-Austen, it will be seen, describes 

 the abdomen as somewhat oehraceous, so that probably the color 

 of the lower parts varies somewhat according to season. 



The following are dimensions, &c, of two males : — 



Length, 4' 62 to 4*75 ; expanse, 5 '75 to 5*82 ; tail from vent, 

 1-82 to 2-2 ; wing, 1-75 to 1*8 j tarsus, 072 to 0-75; bill from 

 gape, 0*2 oz. 



Legs and feet dull orange yellow ; claws dark horn color ; bill 

 black ; irides reddish yellow. 



The tibial feathers are pale, very rusty brown, rather darker 

 than the same parts in gracilis, much as in hodgsoni. 



538. — Prinia hodgsoni, Bly th. 



Said by Lord Tweeddale, B. of B., p. 119,, to have been 

 obtained by Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee. It is very curious 

 that the true hodgsoni should occur in Karennee, while north of 

 it in Assam, and south of it in Pahpoon, &c, we get only 



