408 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



the grass, and when disturbed separated and generally settled on 

 the tops of stunted trees growing about. — W. D.] 



722 bis.— Euspiza rutila, Fall. (25). Descr. S. P., 

 III., 158. 



{Tonghoo, Earennee, Earns.) Pahpoon ; Kyouk-nyat, Salween R. ; Thatone ; 

 Wimpong. 



A cold weather visitant to the more open portions of the 

 northern half of the province. 



[This species usually occurs in small flocks. I found it most, 

 abundant at Wimpong in a tract of bamboo jungle. I found 

 a few at Pahpoon, and to the north of that place. It is not 

 nearly so abundant as the next, which it resembles in its habits 

 and voice. — W. D.] 



This species was described, S. R, III , 158, but the bird then 

 described as a female was, as I stated at the time that I suspected, 

 a young male. We have since obtained a large series of this 

 species, male and female, old and young, and the following is 

 a description of the old female killed in January :— 



Chin and throat pale fulvous white, a greyish olive 

 brown streak down each side of the throat from the base of the 

 lower mandible; lores, ear-coverts and a stripe over the eye 

 to the nape, earthy grey with an olive tinge ; a darker stripe 

 from the gape under the eye and ear-coverts ; another dark streak 

 from the posterior angle of the eye over the ear-coverts ; a 

 broad chestnut brown streak from the nostrils on either side 

 of the crown to the nape; crown, nape and mantle olive green, with 

 a grey shade ; all the feathers with central deep brown stripes ; 

 rump bright chestnut, each feather fringed with pale greyish 

 olive; upper tail-coverts brown, similarly, but more broadly, 

 fringed with a ruddy tinge ; primary coverts, quills, and 

 tail, hair brown, feathers margined paler ; the rest of the wing- 

 coverts broadly fringed with yellowish olive; middle of upper 

 breast fulvous, dark shafted ; middle of lower breast and abdo- 

 men clear pale yellow ; lower tail-coverts white, tinge I with 

 pale primrose and dark shafted ; sides of breast and flanks dusky 

 olive green, streaked with yellow ; thighs very pale yellow, ob- 

 scurely barred with dusky externally ; wing-lining and axilla- 

 ries nearly pure white ; edge of the wing tinged with pale 

 yellow. 



Note that the white streak on the outer tail feather of the 

 male noticed in my first description is not a constant charac- 

 ter. It occurs in the specimen described, but is entirely want- 

 ing in some ten other males that I have now examined. Other 

 young males resemble that first described, but have the ear- 

 coverts dusky olive, and a more or less well marked irregular 

 cvescentic band at the base of the throat. 



