124 A FIRST LIST OF THE 



" Another female measured 11'7. 



" The irides, bright yellow ; eyelids and their edges, dark dull 

 purple ; bill, dark horny ; tips and margins of both mandibles, 

 very light transparent horny " 



439.— Chatarrhsea Earlei, Blyth. 



Mr. Blanford obtained this species on the banks of the Irra- 

 waddy, in high elephant grass, at Thayetmyo (Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 466), and I have now received specimens thence, though 

 neither Mr. Oates nor Captain Feilden appears to have met with it. 



439 Us. — Chatarrhsea gularis, Blyth. — (Journal, 

 Asiatic Society, Bengal,1855, XXIV, p. 478.) 



This species, which appears to be common in Pegu and Upper 

 Burmah, is not of course described by Dr. Jei'don, and I therefore 

 transcribe Blytlv's original description : " Color, ruddy brown, 

 passing to olivaceous on the hind part of the back, each feather 

 having a narrow black mesial streak ; frontal feathers, narrow, 

 stiffish pointed, and white, with black mesial line — these peculiar 

 feathers continued over, but not beyond, the eye ; lores, blackish ; 

 chin and throat, pure white, extending down the front of the 

 neck ; ear coverts and sides of neck, unstreaked ruddy ; breast and 

 flanks, ruddy brown, paler on belly ; and lower tail coverts, duller 

 brown ; tail, dull olive brown, and conspicuously rayed across ; bill, 

 dull plumbeous, yellowish towards gape ; and legs, pale brown, 

 and darker on joints ; length, about 1 1 inches ; of tail, 6 inches ; 

 closed wing, 3§ inches ; bill to gape, 1 inch ; and tarsus, 1J inch." 



Mr. Oates remarks : " This species is common round Thayetmyo 

 and as far south as Prome, and easterly to the foot of the Pegu Hills. 

 The sexes are of much the same size. A pair measured as follows : — 



"Length, 10*1; expanse, 10*4 to 10*8; tail, from vent, 5*3 

 to 5*4; wing, 3*2 to3'25; bill, from gape, 1*0 to 1 # 05; tarsus, 

 1-35 to 1-4," 



I have however a specimen fully as large as that of which the 

 dimensions were given by Mr. Blyth. 



440— Megalurus palustris, JECorsf. 



Mr. Oates says : " Having recently procured this bird, I iden- 

 tify with it two birds which I once saw at Thayetmyo in a bean 

 field, on a sand-bank opposite the station.'" 



451 Ms. — Criniger griseiceps, Hime. 



I have already described this species (Stray Feathers, 1873, 

 p. 478), and have nothing now to add to what I then said, except 

 that it is very distinct from C. ochraceus, Moore, of which also we 

 now have a large series. 



