364 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



593 quat.— Budytes flava, Lin. (7). 



Amherst ; Mergui ; Tenasserim Town ; Bankasoon. 



A cold weather visitant, apparently to the southern half of the 

 province only. 



594.— Budytes calcaratus, Hodgs. (l). 



Pabpoon. 



Davison only saw and obtained one single specimen, and that 

 quite in the north of the province. 



595— Limonidromus indicus, Gm. (15). 



Pahpoon ; Thonngsheyen Sukan ; Kaukaryit, Houngthraw R- ;Yeaboo; Am- 

 herst j Tenasserim Town ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the less elevated portions 

 of the province, but I suspect only as a seasonal visitant. 



[This species occurs throughout the province, but does not 

 ascend the higher hills ; it is generally met with in forest covered 

 ground, in small parties, in pairs, or even singly, walking about 

 under the trees and bushes and hunting about for insects. Its 

 habits are very similar to those of the Pipits, P. maculatus, 

 &c. : when disturbed they fly up into the surrounding trees, ut- 

 tering a sharp Pipit-like note, and there they sit, walk along 

 the branches, or fly from one to the other, shaking their tails all the 

 while. They soon redescend to the ground when everything is 

 quiet. This bird combines in its habits something both of the 

 Pipits and Wagtails. Like the former, they are found in shady 

 places, walking about in a demur way, uttering now and then 

 a sharp single note, but like the latter they usually seize their prey 

 with short sharp dashes, and when disturbed do not generally 

 rise at once, but run on in front of one, taking short runs, 

 stopping every few feet, and shaking their tails violently the 

 while, but again, wheu they do rise, they Pipit-like fly up into 

 the trees.— W. D.] 



We have no Tenasserim specimens shot later than April. 

 About the 1st May Davison saw one in the Gulf of Martaban, 

 which came on board his ship. It does not seem to be at all 

 certain that the great mass of this species in Southern India, 

 and indeed in all parts of India in which they occur, (though I 

 know that JBlyth says they remain throughout the year about 

 Calcutta) do not migrate somewhere about May, returning like 

 C. melanope early in September ; some few do certainly remain, 

 but the mass, I believe, migrate. The point needs investigation. 



