376 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



the neck at any rate are bright j^ellow like the chin and throat. 

 There is the usual white riug of eyelid feathers, a larger or 

 smaller black spot in the lores immediately in front of the eye, 

 and a black line running under the lower eyelid. Sometimes 

 this is very conspicuous, sometimes quite the reverse. The 

 wings and tail are hair brown, the latter with the feathers mar- 

 gined on the outer webs, specially towards the bases with olive 

 yellow ; the former with the coverts and tertiaries so overlaid 

 with this color that the brown is scarcely visible, aud all the 

 primaries (except the first) and the secondaries narrowly mar- 

 gined with the same color. The axillaries are very pale yellow, 

 the wing-lining white, here and there slightly tinged with 

 yellow ; the inner margins of the quills white or slightly creamy 

 white ; the edge of the wing brown, a little mingled with 

 yellow. 



631 quint. — Zosterops austeni, Wald. Descr. S. E., 

 V., 76. 



Obtained by Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee at an elevation of 



2,500 feet. 



63 i<. — JEgithaliscus erythrooephalus, Vigors. 



Obtained by Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee at 3,000 feet. 



645.— Parus caesius* Tick (l). B. B., p. 112. 



Thatone. 



A very rare straggler to the central portions of the province. 



[I shot a single specimen of this Tit in the mangrove swamps 

 to the south of Thatone. It was quite alone, and I have seen 

 no others anywhere else inTenasserim.— W. D.] 



645 bis. — Parus commixtus, Swinh. (4). 



{Karennee, at 3,000 feet, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween ; Tounzaleen Creek. 



Confined to the more open forests of the higher northern por- 

 tions of the province. 



[I met with this species occasionally in the pine forests to 

 the north of Pahpoon ; usually I found it in pairs, occasionally 

 singly : one specimen I shot was in the middle of a large clearing 

 working about the roots of an old stump. In its voice and habits 

 this species does not differ from the common grey Tit, P. ccesius. 

 It feeds apparently entirely on insects. — W. D.J 



* It is not known where or when Tickell gave this name. Jerdon's quotation of it, 

 B. of I., II, 278, is our only authority for it so far; but most certainly Jerdon took 

 it from some other authority, probably from Blyth, and I think it best to retain it for 

 the present, 



