&60 BIEDS OF TENASSERIM. 



584 ter.— Henicurus leschenaulti, Vieill. (4) . Descr. 

 S. E., V., 249. 



Kollidoo ; Pahpoon ; Meeta Myo. 



Confined to the rivulets of the denser evergreen forests, below 

 2,500 feet elevation, in the northern and central portions of the 

 province. 



[In general habits all the Henicuri are alike, inhabiting 

 rocky streams, whose banks are well-wooded, running about 

 amongst and over the rocks, and in the very shallow places, 

 picking up insects which they seem always to capture by a 

 short quick run, sometimes flying up a foot or two to try and 

 seize some passing fly, and uttering a very very sharp single 

 note, (not unlike the sound produced by turning sharply and jer- 

 kily the stopper, in the neck of a glass bottle) . When disturbed 

 they always rise and fly off uttering this note, which they con- 

 tinue some time after they have reseated themselves. Usually 

 they fly up or down stream, but when hard pressed, they fly off 

 a little way into the forest, and seat themselves on a branch a 

 short distance, from the ground, keeping up all the while their 

 sharp call, but soon returning to the stream when all is quiet. 

 The present species frequents, by preferenee, the tiny forest 

 rivulets, and I have even found them in dark rocky ravines where 

 there was hardly any water beyond a few small shallow pools 

 amongst the rocks here and there. It keeps to the densest and 

 darkest parts of the forest. Besides the localities at which I have 

 obtained it, I saw a specimen in the forests near Meetan. — 

 W. D.j 



584 qttat.— Henicurus frontalis, Blyth, (6). Descr. 

 S. E-, V., 248. 



Bankasoon. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province. 



[Like. H. leschenaulti, this species prefers the smaller rocky 

 streams ; in its habits and voice it also resembles it. It occurs 

 only in the extreme south. — W. D.] 



585. — Henicurus immaculatus, Hodgs. 



Blyth (B. of B., p. 97) gives this species from Tenasserim. It 

 has not of late years been met with in this province, and I think 

 its occurrence there doubtful, although no doubt it is found in 

 the northern parts of Pegu, as for instance near Thayet Myo, 

 and again in Arracan. 



