406 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



central tail feathers are brown, overlaid with golden ; the crimson 

 of the abdomen is replaced by a more gamboge yellow ; the breast 

 almost entirely wants the bluish green tinge. 



The female -wants the blue forehead and face of the male, and 

 has these parts green, as a rule, with a bluish shade on the 

 cheeks, but in some specimens the whole of the cheeks and 

 part of the ear-coverts are a decided but dull grey blue ; the 

 central tail-feathers are not so much elongated as in the male, and 

 the margins of these and the upper tail-coverts are a deeper 

 and duller red than in the male, and the rump is green. The 

 lower parts are pale fulvous fawn, more or less shaded with 

 greenish grey on the chin, throat, breast, sides and flanks. 



Note that in the PI. Col., pi. 96, Temminck calls the young 

 male the female, and figures the female as a " variety, male." 



704 bis.— Estreida flavidiventris, Wall. P. Z. S., 

 1863, 495.— E. burmanica, Hume. (3.) Descr. S. F., 

 IV., 484. 



? {Karennee, Enms.) Thatone. 



Confined to the tract of country between the Salween and 

 Sittang river, but perhaps reappearing in Karennee. 



[I have only met with the Burmese Waxbill in the Thatone 

 plain, and bat very rarely. I found them frequenting the 

 dense grass in pairs or small parties. — W. D.] 



The amandava included by Blyth in the Birds of Burma, 

 p. 93, on the authority of Masson, is doubtless the present spe- 

 cies, which, though rare in the only part of Tennaserim where 

 we have obtained it, is common in the adjacent parts of Pegu. 



It is to Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay that I am indebted for the 

 identification of the Burmese Wax Bill with Wallace's species. 

 He says that specimens from Flores and Timor are absolutely 

 identical, while others from Saigon only differ in being a little 

 smaller. 



706. — Passer indicus, Jard. and Selb. 



Mr. Blyth observes of this species, B. of B., p. 93. 



" Not uncommon at Akyab, but rare to the southward in the 

 jungle-clad provinces." To the best of our belief this species 

 occurs nowhere in Tenasserim from Pahpoon to the Pakchan 

 Estuary, except perhaps, as an accidental straggler ; it may, of 

 course, occur at Tonghoo and Karennee, -which we have not yet 

 explored, but it was not mentioned as having been procured by 

 Ramsay. 

 708 bis. — Passer flaveolus, Blyth. Descr. S. E., III. 



156. 



Obtained in Karennee by Ramsay. 



