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sent by others from Pegu, and we may, I think, safely accept 

 Mr. Oates's identification. He says : " This bird is very common 

 in the Evergreen Forests ; dozens may be seen on the hills on 

 any Banyan tree which may happen to have fruit. I believe it 

 to be entirely frugivorous. 



" A female measured: Length, 7* 7; expanse, 10 - 2; tail, from 

 vent, 3'6; wmg, 3 - 2 ; bill, from gape, - 72 (in another, 0*8), 

 tarsus, 065. The irides were pale yellow; the eyelids, yellowish 

 fleshy ; bill, dark brown ; inside of mouth, fleshy yellow ; legs 

 and feet, brown ; claws, dark horny." 



Subsequently I have examined two specimens from the Pegu 

 Yoma Hills. They are identical with Indian examples. 



460. — Otocompsa emeria, Shaw. 



Neither Captain Feilden nor Mr. Oates has sent this species, 

 but it was obtained by Sir Arthur Phayre somewhere in the 

 Tonghoo District, and I therefore include it in our list. 



Mr. Oates says : " Mr. Raikes shot a specimen at Prome which 

 he showed me. It is perfectly identical with birds from Lower 

 Pegu, of which I have lately procured several. The dimensions 

 are much smaller than those given by Jerdon. The Burman bird 

 is very common throughout Lower Pegu, and extends into our 

 limits sparingly. 



" A female measured: Length, 7 - 55 ; expanse, 9G ; tail, 3-1 ; 

 wing, 2 - 95 ; tarsus, \8; bill "85; iris, hazel brown; inside of 

 mouth, yellow ; bill, legs, and toes, black/'' 



This would appear to be the smaller race, with shorter ear 

 tufts, usually identified with monticola, McClell., but which I do 

 not think can be this species, because, though I have seen 

 many examples of it from Assam, I have also seen one in 

 which the red ran forwards above and below the eye, so as to 

 make nearly a ring round it. This I take to be monticola. It 

 may be merely an abnormal form of the ordinary Assam race, 

 but it gives the bird a very different appearance, although in 

 other respects I did not notice (I had, however, no opportunities 

 of comparing it) any differences in plumage. 



461.— Molpastes pygmSBUS, Hodgson. 



In these Thayetmyo birds I expected to meet with Blyth's 

 nigropileus (Journal, Asiatic Society, 1847, Vol. XVI., p. 472) .* 



* " Pycnonotus nigropileus," says Blyth, " merely differs from P. licvmorrhous, 

 in having no black on the throat and breast, which are brown, with greyish 

 margins to the feathers, like the back ; and the whole nape and back are much 

 paler than in P. hcemorrhous, the cap alone being black." We found this and 

 chrysorrhoides, Lafr., (the Chinese form) common in Northern Tenasserim. 



