350 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



This species seems to me very close to Drymoica fusca, of 

 Hodgson, from the Sikhim Terai and Bhootan Dooars, &c. If 

 really distinct, I have never seen it. 



544 quat. — Drymoica extensicauda, Swinh. (5). 

 Descr. S. F, III., 340. 



Kedai-Keglay ; Thatone ; Tavoy. 



Confined to the open and grass lands of the central portions 

 of the province. 



[I met with this bird on the Thatone plains, and there only 

 occasionally among the kine grass. I can add nothing to Mr. 

 Oates' excellent note on this species, S. F., III., 340. — W. D.] 



547 ter.— Suya superciliaris, Anderson (1). 



Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently to the higher slopes of Mooleyit. 



[I met with this bird only on one occasion, near the top of 

 Mooleyit. I observed it working about in a dense isolated clump 

 of brushwood. It was quite alone, and though I hunted day 

 after day about the place where I obtained it, and in every other 

 likely looking place I never saw another. The one I shot 

 had eaten a few small flies. — W. D.] 



We only obtained a single specimen, a male, of this species, 

 quite near the top of Mooleyit. The following are its dimen- 

 sions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 



Length, 6'6 ; expanse, 6*5 ; tail from vent, 3*8 ; wing, 2"01 ; 

 tarsus, 085 ; bill from gape, 0"62 ; weight, 0'4 or. 



Legs, feet and claws and lower mandible, fleshy pink ; upper 

 mandible black ; irides brownish yellow. 



The lores and feathers just at the base of the lower mandible, 

 and immediately under the anterior margin of the eye, dusky 

 black; a broad patch immediately behind the eye, involving 

 part of the ear-coverts, dusky ; cheeks immediately below this 

 dusky, pencilled with white ; feathers of the median portion 

 of the lower eyelid white ; a long white supercilium from the 

 nostril over the eyes to near the nape ; forehead, crown and 

 occiput, inside these stripes, the nape and upper portion of the 

 sides of the neck olivaceous brown, the dusky bases of the fea- 

 thers showing through more or less, and giving a dusky shade to 

 these parts, which are just perceptibly separated, as by a line, from 

 the purer and yellower olivaceous brown of the back ; scapulars 

 rump, and lesser wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts and tips of 

 the longest rump feathers yellower ; quills and their greater 

 coverts pale hair brown, suffused on their outer webs with a 

 slightly more fulvous shade of the color of the back ; tail pale 



