BIRDS OF UPPER PEGU. 119 



Long Undo. 



" Described from specimens obtained in the Khasia Hills. 



" This bird has hitherto been considered identical with the 

 Javan T.pileata, Horsf. A comparison I have recently been 

 enabled to make with authentic Javan examples has convinced 

 me of their specific distinctness. True, T. pileata is a larger 

 bird ; in it the bill is much more powerful, its altitude being 1 

 quite double that of examples from the Khasia Hills. The 

 crown of the head is bright ferruginous, not dark chestnut. The 

 color of the upper plumage, wings, and rectrices is considerably- 

 paler, that of the lower is pale tawny, and the ashy color of 

 the black-shafted breast plumes is less intense. My deeply 

 lamented friend Dr. Jerdon fully concurred with me in the 

 propriety of separating the two species. 



" In the Birds of India this species is said to extend 

 through the Malayan Peninsula to Java ; but I believe that it 

 has never been found further south than Arracan. Neither it nor 

 the Javan species has been shown to occur in the Malayan Penin- 

 sula or in Sumatra. It seems to belong to that category of Javan 

 forms (such as Harpactes oreskios, Crypsirhina varians, Bhringa 

 remifer, fyc), which, while absent from the intermediate regions, 

 Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, re-appear further to the north 

 in Burmah, some penetrating as far as Nipal." 



I fear this is not quite correct. I have seen only one Javan 

 specimen, it is true, but that had the wing only 2*47, and I can 

 provide Lord Walden with any number of Indian specimens with 

 wings from 2-5 to 2 - 6. 



Possibly Lord Walden's supposed pileata is the male and 

 his Jerdoni the female. Every one who has shot these ana 

 kindred birds knows what a great difference in size there is in 

 the sexes. 



Then, as to this species not occurring in the Malay Peninsula, 

 I am not sure where this is supposed to commence, but 

 most certainly this, H. oreskios and Crypsirhina varians all 

 occur as low down as Mergui, which is hardly separable from the 

 Malayan Peninsula. 



399 ter.— Pellorneum Tickellii, Blyth. 



One specimen is sent, which I suppose to belong to this species. 

 Mr. Oates says : " This specimen agrees pretty well with Blyth's 

 meagre description which you quote at page 299 of Stray 

 Feathers for 1873. It is not uncommon on the eastern slopes of 

 the Pegu Hills, frequenting brushwood and heaps of rubbish in 



