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Arakan, but which I cannot say, as when I saw the specimen 

 SO odd years ago I knew little of birds. 



227.— -ffithopyga gouldiss, Tig. 



Only observed in the Eastern hills (at elevations of 4,000 

 feet and upwards), where, especially about Aimole and Machi, it 

 is rather common. 



Length. Expame. Tail. Wing. Tartut, Bill from gape. Weight, 



$ ... 5-6 6-4 2-9 203 05 66 028 oz. 



$ ... 5-5 6-4 2-8 2-1 0-5 059 0-24 „ 



Legs and feet deep, almost blackish, brown, a little paler on 

 toes ; soles dingy yellowish to hoary grey ; bill blackish, a little 

 paler on lower mandible ; irides brown to reddish chocolate 

 brown. 



Godwin-Austen records this species from Mozimah in the 

 Naga hills at the head of the Lanier R. at 6,000 feet, and I 

 have it from the Khasi hills, but I seem to have no specimens 

 from any other part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. It has been 

 sent from Arakan, but not as yet, I believe, from any other part 

 of British Burmah. 



I cannot include in my list, but in my own mind 1 am quite 

 sure that I saw 227bis. — jEtkopyga dabryi, Verr., near the top 

 of a high-wooded peak beyond Tankul Hoondoong, elevation 

 about 6,000 feet. There were three or four together about the 

 top of a high tree, and I had a good snap shot at one as he 

 crossed a small gap in the overhanging branches immediately 

 over my head at a height of 20 or 25 yards. I missed, but I saw 

 distinctly the crimson scarlet breast above the bright yellow 

 abdomen. Of course in every other respect gouldice is precisely 

 like dabryi^ but the crimson scarlet breast which distinguishes 

 the latter is unmistakable. It was drizzling at the time I fired, 

 and in two minutes came on to rain cats and dogs, and when 

 an hour later the shower ceased, the birds were nowhere to be 

 seen, and, though I twice revisited the spot, I never saw them 

 again there, or elsewhere. This species has not occurred in 

 Assam. We got it at Moolyit in Tenasserim, and Ramsay in 

 Karenee and the Tounghoo hills, and Anderson at Momein and 

 Ponsee in the Kakyen hills in Independent Burmah. 



228.— .ffithopyga ignicauda, Hodgs. 



I shot three young birds of this species, all in bad immature 

 plumage, in the Eastern hills, and near Machi saw one fine male 

 with a long red tail, but failed to secure him. I never saw this 

 myself in the Western hills, but one of my men professed to 

 have seen and shot one ^though he lost it in the jungle) on the 

 Limatol range. 



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