378 BIRDS OF TEHASSERIM. 



black ; a few of the posterior long crest-feathers tipped with 

 yellow ; feathers at base of bill, the lores, cheeks and sides of 

 neck, supercilia, and mesial nape-streak, bright yellow ; wings 

 and tail dull black; the great alars and caudals margined with 

 ashy, and two or three of the primaries with whitish ; a con- 

 spicuous white patch also at the base of the primaries ; and the 

 tertiaries are tipped on the outer web with an elongate whitish 

 spot ; this hue also extending up the inner web of the smallest 

 tertiary : the smallest wing-coverts are tipped with ashy, and 

 the first great range of wing-coverts with white upon both 

 webs -, the second range upon the outer web only, forming two 

 eross-bands on the wing ; the anterior half of the wing is white 

 underneath, but the axillaries are light yellow ; the outermost 

 tail feather has its exterior web dull white, and a spot of the 

 same tipping on the iuner web, this spot being successively 

 smaller on the penultimate and ante-penultimate tail-feathers; 

 bill black and legs plumbeous. Length about 4f in. ; of wing, 

 2f in. ; and tail, 2 in. ; longest crest-feathers, f in/' 



We have a young female, which measured as follows in the 

 flesh, which answers exactly and precisely to the above descrip- 

 tion :— 



Length, 5'1 ; expanse, 89 ; tail, 2*15; wing, 2'85 ; tarsus, 

 Q'68 ; bill from gape, 0*5 ; weight, 0*6 oz. 



This like the type was shot on the slopes of Mooleyit at an 

 elevation of between three and four thousand feet, and at the 

 same time a number of adults of this species were procured. 



Although Colonel (then Captain) Tickell seems to have seen 

 only one specimen, it was not at all uncommon at the end of 

 January and during February in the Mooleyit forests. 



650.— Melanochlora sultanea, Hodgs. (14). 



(Karennee, Earns.) Kyouk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Myawadee ; Meeta Myo; 

 Pakchan ; Bankasoon. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the forests of the province, 

 but not ascending the higher hills. 



[I found this beautiful Tit sparingly distributed throughout 

 the province, except on the higher hills. 



It keeps entirely to the forest, especially along the forest 

 paths and where it is not very dense. It is almost always in 

 pairs, though on one or two occasions I have seen parties of 

 four or six together. Its note is very Tit-like, though much 

 harsher and louder. Except when excited the crest is usually 

 kept lowered, not erected like a Tit's, but when excited, it is at once 

 raised and kept so for some considerable time. Its habits are 

 quite those of a Tit, clinging in every conceivable position to the 

 smaller branches, peering into every crack and under every leaf, 



