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• As a matter of fact, however, the Thayetmyo specimens are 

 somewhat intermediate between pygmans and Blyth's bird. In 

 general character of plumage it resembles P. intermedhis, Hay, 

 (which is very doubtfully distinct) ; but it has the large bill and 

 wing of the true pygma&us ; the black however is confined to the cap, 

 and the breast is brown, narrowly edged with greyish white ; 

 but the whole chin and throat are black as in pygmeeus, and 

 I have no doubt that, if the whole country between Dacca and 

 Mergui were to be properly worked, every intermediate stage 

 of plumage between typical pygmaws and typical uigropileus 

 would be met with. Chrysorrhoides, Lafr., which is the Chinese 

 bird and not, as Mr. Gray makes it, identical with the Indian or 

 Madras Bulbul, is very common in Northern Tenasserim, as is also 

 uigropileus, and these two grade into one another. Again, the 

 Madras Bulbul, pusillus, Blyth, andpygmaus, if typical examples 

 be selected, are very distinct ; but between them we have 

 P. mtermedius, and between intermedins and each of them again 

 we have an almost unbroken series of links. 



Mr. Oates says : " This species is very common in the plains, 

 but is not found on the hills." 



I follow Mr. Gray in calling this species " pygmaus ; " hitherto 

 the name has been generally given as " pygteus." 



463 ter. — Phyllornis chlorocephalus, Walden. 



Lord Walden characterized this species in the An. and Mag. op 

 Natural History for 1871, p. 241. 



He remarked : " The Burman representative of the Sumatran 

 and Malayan Phyllornis icterocephaliis, Tem., apud Bonap., has not 

 been hitherto discriminated. It chiefly differs from that species 

 by possessing a much longer bill, by having the crown of the 

 head green and not yellow, and by wanting the intense golden 

 color of the nape. The frontal plumes are bright yellow. The 

 female (perhaps the young male) has the forehead, as well as the 

 crown, bright green. Bill from nostril full half an inch ; other 

 dimensions as in Malaccan examples (four in number) of 

 Phyllornis icterocephaliis , Tem. Described from three adult 

 males and one female obtained near Tonghoo." 



Mr. Blyth says he received cochinchinensis from Sir Arthur 

 Phayre from somewhere in the Tonghoo or Thayetmyo District, 

 but his bird doubtless belonged to the present species, of which 

 Mr. Oates also sent one specimen so entirely destroyed by insects that 

 I only identified it by the dimensions which he recorded in the flesh. 



Numerous specimens subsequently obtained by ourselves 

 euable me to give full dimensions and a description. 



Males: Length, 7 to 7 '4; expanse, 9- 82 to 11-0; tail, from 

 vent, 2-75 to 3-0; wing, 325 to 3-39 ; tarsus, 0"65 to 07 ; bill, 

 from gape, - 82 to 0*95; weight, 1 oz. 



