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395.— Mixornis rubricapilla, Tickell. 



Pegu specimens do not appear to be quite so yellow under- 

 neath as all my Himalayan specimens are ; but I believe that 

 the color of the lower surface varies a good deal in this species 

 according to season. 



Mr. Oates remarks : ' ' This species is found sparingly on both 

 sides of the Pegu Hills. A male measured: Length, 5*4, • 

 expanse, 7; tail, from vent, 2*15; wing, 2 - 3; bill, from gape, 

 0-73; tarsus, 07 



" The irides are a sickly white ; the eyelids, plumbeous ; the bill, 

 horny brown ; the inside of the mouth, fleshy brown ; legs and 

 feet, fleshy horny ; claws, yellowish horny." 



396.— Timalia pileata, Horsf. 



Pegu specimens are very similar to birds from Tipperah, 

 Dacca, the Lower Sikhim Valleys, &c; but the bills are appreciably 

 smaller, and the color of the upper surface appears to run some- 

 what paler : but I have only seen two specimens from Thayet- 

 myo, and I do not know whether these differences are persistent, 

 but I do not think so. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " This is a common bird in the plains, 

 and is generally met with in pairs. I found the nest at Thayet- 

 myo on the 2nd June. It contained young ones only a few days 

 old. The nest was placed on the ground in the centre of a low, 

 but very thick, thorny bush. 



" Two males measured as follows : — 



"Length, 7 - to 7*1; expanse, 8 - to 8*1; tail, from vent, 

 3*1 to 3-5; wing, 2*6; bill, from gape, 0'73 to 0*78 ; tarsus, 09 

 to 0-97. 



" The bill was black ; irides, dark red ; eyelids, dark bluish 

 grey, inside of mouth, black ; legs, purplish brown ; claws, horn 

 colored." 



Lord Walden separates the Indian bird as T. Jerdoni, and 

 offers the following remarks on this subject (An. and Mag. of 

 Natural History, 1872, p. 61): — 



" Timalia Jerdoni, nova species. 



" Timalia pileata, Horsf., apud Jerdon, Birds of India, 

 Vol. II, p. 24, nee Horsf. 



" A narrow frontal band extending over the eyes. The cheeks, 

 chin, and throat, white. Forehead and crown, deep chestnut; 

 remainder of upper surface, dark olive grey ; quills and rectrices 

 above, brown, tinged with olive ; rectrices, traversed by numerous 

 narrow bands of a darker shade of brown. Upper part of breast, 

 white, changing to cinereous lower down ; each feather, with a 

 black shaft ; remainder of lower surface, fulvous, mixed with 

 cinereous olive ; under-tail coverts, cinereous olive. 



