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markings on the wing, thus showing an approach to Blyth's 

 Malayan species innotata. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " Though not often seen, this is really a 

 common bird from Thayetmyo to Tonghoo. The sexes are of much 

 the same size^ Specimens measured varied in length from 8'55 

 to 8*7; expanse, 14 to 1475; tail, from vent, 3 - 2 ; wing, 4*6 to 

 4' 8; bill, from gape, 1*1; tarsus, 1*33. 



" Those killed at the end of April in the Pegu Hills were appa- 

 rently about to breed. 



" The bills were blackish brown ; the gape and base of lower 

 mandible, fleshy ; eyelids, greenish plumbeous ; hides, dark hazel ; 

 legs, feet, and claws, fleshy pink/ - ' 



371.— Oreocincla dauma, Lath. 



A single specimen sent from Thayetmyo is identical with 

 Himalayan examples. 



Though unknown in the plains of India during the hot- 

 weather, it occurs there as a straggler during the cold-season. 

 I shot one once at Bhurrey, the point of junction of the Chumbul 

 and Jumna Rivers, and Mr. Blewitt has sent it from Raipore, 

 and Mr. Ball from Chota Nagpore. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " I have only seen a single specimen, 

 which I shot on the 14th April, in the Evergreen Forests of the 

 Pegu Hills. This was a female and measured — 



"Length, 10-35; expanse, 16; tail, from vent, 3*6; wing, 

 5*5; bill, from gape, 1*23 ; tarsus, 1*28. 



" Bill, dark brown above and at centre of lower mandible, 

 remainder of lower mandible, pale brown, the gape with a tinge 

 of orange; inside of mouth, yellowish. Eyelids and naked sjxtt 

 behind eye, plumbeous ; iris, dark hazel brown ; legs and claws, 

 fleshy white, the latter with a tinge of pink." 



385.— Pyctoris sinensis, Gm. 



Four specimens which I have received from Thayetmyo are ab- 

 solutely inseparable from Indian specimens from various localities. 

 Some of them have bills a great deal deeper than some Indian 

 birds, and one of them has a bill a good deal less deep than 

 several Indian birds. There is absolutely no separating them. 

 What then is Jerdon's altirostris which he described from Thayet- 

 myo in the Ibis, 1862, p. 22 ? This is what Dr. Jerdon said : — » 



" Above, pale reddish brown, deepest on the wings and tail ; 

 forehead and streak over the eye, hoary grey ; beneath, whitish ; 

 tinged on the lower part of the breast, abdomen, and flanks 

 with pale f ulveseent ; quills and tail feathers, slightly dusky on 

 their inner webs; under-wing coverts, pale ferruginous; bill, 

 fleshy horny ; legs, fleshy ; iridcs, dark brown, with an outer 

 circle of white : eyelids, pale sulphur yellow. 



