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346. — Brachynrus cuculatus, Sartl. 



Pegu specimens are absolutely identical with many others that 

 I have from Sikhim, where the bird is very common. 



Blyth apparently considers (Ibis, 1866, p. 374) that our Indian 

 bird is distinct from the Malaccan one, and should stand under 

 his name, lugricollis ; as far south as Tavoy, at any rate, all are 

 of one and the same species. 



Mr. Oates correctly points out (as I have previously noticed) 

 that, in describing this species, both Dr. Jerdon (Birds of India, 

 Vol. I, p. 505) and Mr. Elliot (Ibis, 1870, p. 420) omit the con- 

 spicuous black patch which on the centre of the lower abdomen 

 surmounts the rich vermillion of the lower ventral region. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " I met with this bird in one ravine only 

 in the Evergreen Forests, where I procured several specimens. I 

 searched many precisely similar localities, but never again met 

 with it. Two pairs that I measured varied as follows : — 



"Length, 7*3 to 7*55 ; expanse, 13'5 to 14 - 5; tail, from vent, 

 1-55 to 1-65; wing, 4-25 to 4-5; bill, from gape, 1-05 to 1'08- 

 tarsus, l - 6 to 1*7. 



"The bill was black; the inside of the mouth, dusky fleshy: 

 irides, dark coffee brown ; eyelids, pale plumbeous fleshy ; legs, 

 fleshy pink ; claws, pinkish horny. 



346 ter— Anthocincla Phayrei,* Blyth. PI II. 



Neither Mr. Oates nor Captain Feilden has obtained this 

 species, but Sir Arthur Phayre obtained it somewhere in the 

 Tonghoo District, and it has also occurred in the Pegu Yoma Hills, 

 and must, therefore, be included in this list. Mr. Blyth constituted 

 a new genus for this species, of which he thus writes : — 



" A very remarkable Thrush-like myiotherine (?) form, with 

 short tail and rounded wings. The tarsi moderate or somewhat 

 short, and the toes furnished with straight claws, especially that 

 on the hind toe. Bill, as in the coarser-billed Oreocinclce, with 

 no perceptible notch to the upper mandible; no rictal vibrissa ; 

 plumage, devoid of bright colors. 



" Length about 9 # 5, of which tail barely 2 ; closed wing, 4 ; 

 the fourth and fifth primaries, longest ; and the first primary, 

 measuring 2 ; bill to gape, 1*5 ■ tarsi, 1*13, • hind claw, 0"56; 

 color, a rich brown above, paler and more fulvous below, where 

 each feather has a black spot on either web ; middle of throat, 

 white, bordered laterally with black, and this again by a streak 

 of black-margined fulvous white feathers below the brown ear- 

 coverts ; a long supei*eilium of feathers, resembling those of the 

 white moustache streak, and above this again the feathers on the 

 sides of the crown, are squamate and pale-centred ; primaries and 



* The plate is taken from a drawing made by Davison from the fresh bird. 



