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tliis dark color, it still leaves the lower portion of it as a torque, 

 as in the type specimen. 



It probably takes two or three years before all traces of the 

 immature plumage disappear, since three-fourths of our speci- 

 mens show more or less of this torque. 



An unaccountable typographical mistake occurred in the 

 original description, in which it is stated that " the rest of the 

 upper mandible purplish brown.'' This was not so recorded in 

 regard to tlie tj^pe by Davison, and is not a fact. In every 

 ease the entire bill has been greyish horny or fleshy white, with 

 in some cases a dusky Hue on the eulmen. The legs and feet 

 have also been greyish white, or slaty white, or fleshy white, 

 with a blue tinge. The irides pale to bright golden. 



Numerous specimens measured in the flesh showed that the 

 females were slightly larger than the males. The species includ- 

 ing both sexes varies as follows : — 



Length, 9'4 to 10-2 ; expanse, 11-25 to 12-7; wing, 3-7 to 

 i'l; tail from vent, 4*5 to 5*0 ; tarsus, 1*05 to 1'2 ; bill from 

 gape, 0-9 to 1*0 ; weight, 1'3 to 2 ozs., the average being 

 1*75 ozs. 



412.— In the Birds of Tenasserim, S. F., VI., 291, I noted 

 that Davison never met with more than one single specimen of 

 412. — Garrulax pectoralis ; tliis he got at Meetan. Darling, how- 

 ever, found it plentiful in July and August about Kaukaryit, and 

 preserved many specimens. The Tenasserim bird is not separ- 

 able from the Himalayan one, but differs, as does the Tenasserim 

 moniliger, in having the tail tippings onhraceous, and it also dif- 

 fers from the Himalayan bird in having the ferruginous chestnut 

 of the flanks replaced by buff*, and in having the rufous nuchal 

 half collar paler and less pronounced. The bills too are, I think, 

 somewhat slenderer. 



706. — Passer indicus. — In the birds of Tenasserim, pp. 406 

 and 520, we mentioned that, while this species was common at 

 Rangoon, we had only met during all our years of collecting with 

 one single specimen in Tenasserim, and this at Moulmein, where 

 the bird might well have come over on board some of the craft 

 hourly plying between Rangoon and this place. 



Subsequent, however, to the issue of the volume referred to, 

 Davison, on the 10th December 1878, when up at Needong on the 

 Attaran, about 50 miles inland south-east from Moulmein, met 

 with an enormous flock of the common sparrow, clustered in 

 liundreds, I may says thousands, in a dense clump of bulrushes 

 many miles from any human habitation. He shot eight or nine 



