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236.--Dic8eum cruentatum, Lin. 



I procured this species as far north as Pahpocn, and again 

 at Koosaik. 



236 6«s.— Dicaeum trigonistigma, Scop. 



At Koosaik, in July, I found a creeper in flower close to mv 

 camp, and obtained several birds on it ; among others one speci- 

 men of this, but so shattered that the head and most of the 

 feathers of one wing came clean off in attempting to skin it. 



346 «er.— Anthocincla phayrei, Bly. 



I shot one, a male, iu the Meplay Reserve on the Thoungyeen 

 River. At the same time I saw the female, and I suspect 

 they had a nest there, but 1 failed to find it. 



350 his. — Zoothera marginata, Bly. 



One specimen procured in August 1877, in the low hills to 

 the east of the Thoungyeeu River in Yabine. A second shot 

 28th March 1879, near the village of Yoko Meplay Choung, 

 Thoungyeen River, a male, measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 11-20; expanse, 17-30; wing, 5-62; tail, 2-70: tarsus, 

 1-30; bill from gape, 1-78. 



465.— Phyllornis aurifrons, Tem. 



Dr. Jerdon says that the female " wants the golden fore- 

 head. '^ It may be so with Indian birds. Here male and 

 female alike possess it. I have ascertained this beyond a 

 doubt. 



669 6^s.--Garrulus leucotis, Eume. 



This Jay is not uncommon between Kaukaryit and Meeawud- 

 dy, and on the Meplay Choung. 



I am not quite certain, but I think I heard its very peculiar 

 chuckling note in the Kyoong Choung Reserve on the Zamee 

 River. I failed, however, to see or secure a specimen. 



706.— Passer indicus, Jard. and Selb. 



I have noticed a few stragglers of this at Moulmein. At 

 Rangoon, in December 1876, I noticed that it was common. 

 Those seen at Moulmein may have been introduced by the 

 shipping. One rare straggler reached me at Kaukaryit on the 

 Houndraw, and, though I waged war against the species in India 

 I made a pet of this one, and used to feed him daily for nearly 

 a month, when he disappeared. Though solitary and an exile 



