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five inches white- shafted. As to No. 3 this also holds good in 

 typical specimens ; but I have specimens, some of which I should 

 class as affinis and some as paradisi, in which the crests are quite 

 intermediate between the typical forms. No. 4 appears to me to 

 be the only criterion, and even this is not very constant. 



Now as to the Pegu birds. The tail feathers are decidedly broad- 

 er than in typical affinis ; only the basal five inches or so of the 

 central feathers are black-shafted ; they have no black margins ; 

 the crest is more lengthened and pointed than in affinis, and 

 though the tails seem to run shorter than typical paradisi, still 

 the birds, as a whole, are decidedly closer to this latter than to 

 affinis. 



Mr. Oates says : " This species is common in the hills and not 

 rare in the plains. It may occasionally be seen in the cholera- 

 camp hills in Thayetmyo ; the males in April are generally in the 

 chestnut plumage, but a fine male shot on the 21st May, which 

 was undoubtedly breeding, was in the white plumage. 



" I found the nest in the Evergreen Forests of the Pegu Hills on 

 the 30th April. It is described in Nests and Eggs, Part 1" 



290.— Myiagra azurea, Bodd. 



Mr. Oates says that this species is " common throughout 

 our limits. The sexes are of much the same size. The birds that 

 I measured varied as follows : — 



Length, 6 - l to 6 - 5; expanse, 8"5 to 8*6; tail, from vent, 2 - 9 

 to 2-95; wing, 2"8 to 2*85; bill, from gape, - 71 to 0'8; tarsus, 

 - 65 to 0'75; the irides are dark brown; edges of eyelids, blue ; 

 eyelids, plumbeous ; bill, dark blue, edges and tip, black ; inside 

 of mouth, yellow ; legs, plumbeous ; claws, dark horny. In the 

 female the bill is a little dusky/'' 



Thayetmyo birds differ in no respect from those from all parts 

 of India. 



291.— Leucocirca albicollis, Vieil. 



Thayetmyo specimens agree well with others from various 

 parts of India. Mr. Oates correctly points out that, whereas 

 Jerdon describes fuscoventris, Frankl., which I consider to be this 

 same species, as having only the three outermost tail feathers 

 tipped with white, his birds from Thayetmyo have all but the 

 central feathers thus tipped ; but this is equally the case with 

 many Indian specimens ; in fact, the bird is very variable in this 

 respect, sometimes the outer three, sometimes the outer four, and 

 sometimes the outer five, pairs are tipped with white, and the 

 breadth of this tipping also varies greatly in various specimens. 

 Mr. Oates remarks : " This is common enough about us. The 

 eyelids are grey ; the irides, deep brown ; and the inside of the 

 mouth, fleshy white." 



