362 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



that whereas in the male the red is confined to the cap, nape, 

 or just the upper back, id the female it extends over almost the 

 whole of that portion of the back which in the males is black. 



The males have a frontal band extending just to the upper 

 angle of the eye, white ; a narrow band from the posterior angle 

 of the eye over the eye, and over this white band, black ; the 

 lores, an excessively narrow band at the base of the upper man- 

 dible just under the white frontal band, the cheeks, greater por- 

 tion of the ear-coverts, chin and entire throat, velvet black ; the 

 foreneck, breast, abdomen, vent, flanks, lower tail-coverts, axil- 

 laries, and all the wing-lining, except the feathers at and below 

 the carpal joint, pure white ; all the feathers of the breast narrow- 

 ly margined with black, producing a series of crescentic marks 

 there ; rest of forehead, crown, occiput, sides of ditto, back and 

 sides of neck and extreme upper back deep ferruginous red; the 

 rest of back and the wings black, brownish on the primaries ; 

 the secondaries white tipped, and the secondary greater coverts 

 also white tipped, and the short tertiaries also white. Rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail white, the four central feathers with 

 the terminal portions from half to two-thirds of their length 

 black, narrowly white tipped. 



In the females the red extends over the whole upper back, 

 in undiminished purity of color, and thence over the scapulars, 

 and nearly the whole of that portion of the back, which is 

 black in the male, leaving only a black band from 0*1 to 0*2 

 wide, dividing the red from the white of the rump, but on all 

 these parts the red is duller, browner, and less pure. 



590.— Motacilla luzoniensis,* Scop. (13). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Dargwin ; Pahpoon ; Khvketo : Beeling ; Kedai-Keglay ; 

 Thatone ; Moulinein. 



Confined to the open and cultivated country in the northern 

 half of the province. A cold weather visitant only. 



591 bis,— Motacilla dukhunensis, Sykes. (6). 



{Tonghoo, Karennee, Rams.) Pahpoon, Sal ween P. ; Kedai-Keglay ; Thatone ; 

 Moulinein. 



Like the preceding. 



592.— Oalobates melanope, Pall (4). 



Pahpoon ; Amherst ; Pabyin ; Tenasserim Town ; Banknsoon. 

 Sparingly distributed during the cold season throughout the 

 more open portions of the province. A familiar bird that conies 



* What name the species, usually identified as luzoniensis, should bear has yet to "be 

 determined. It is most probable that this name cannot stand for this species, as 

 Sonnerat described a grey-backed bird, and Scopoli quoting from him changed the 

 word grey into black. However immature birds have the backs grey, and until the 

 Wagtails of Luzon have been exhaustively worked, there can be no certainty, and it 

 seems best to adhere to the accepted name. 



