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and here amongst the birds sent by Mr. Oates is an Abrornis 

 swperciliaris with the whole abdomen pure silky white, bleached 

 by the incautious use of carbolic acid. Now that small birds are 

 so commonly carbolized, ornithologists should be on their guard 

 against this change of color. I have not been able to ascertain 

 that this substance affects any other color. Many people object to 

 carbolized birds, but there is no doubt that if the process is care- 

 fully performed, it is the only way open to the travelling 

 naturalist, who has to preserve twenty or thirty specimens a day, 

 of securing really perfect specimens, in which the various stripes 

 and streaks about the head of many of the small, soft-plumaged 

 birds — l J hjlloscopi, Meguloides, and the like — shall not be in any 

 way disarranged. 



565.— Keguloides superciliosus, Gm. 



Obtained by Sir Arthur Phayre in the Tonghoo District. 



569 Ms— Culicipeta tephrocephalus, Anderson, 



A single specimen sent by Mr. Oates I refer to this species. 

 In size and general appearance it differs in no way from Burkii ; 

 but when closely examined it proves to have, which Dr. Anderson 

 does not notice, a much smaller bill than any Burkii, and more- 

 over the central head streak is pure grey, and on either side of 

 the occiput from behind the eye runs another grey stripe, which, 

 curving round the base of the occiput, meets at the termination 

 of the head stripe. Of the great number of Burkii now before 

 me, no specimen presents any such appearance, but one or two of 

 them have portions of a few of the feathers of the head streak 

 grey ; this difference of coloring, coupled with a conspicuous 

 difference in the size of the bill, quite justifies, I think, the 

 separation of the species, which Dr. Anderson first obtained in 

 Upper Burmah and of which we have numerous specimens from 

 Tenasserim. 



Mr. Oates says : " This bird is uncommon. I met with only 

 one specimen on the western slopes of the hills. It was a male, 

 and measured as follows : — 



" Length, 4/8 ; expanse, 6'8 ; tail, from vent, 2; wing, 2"3 j bill, 

 from gape, 0*56; tarsus, 0*72. 



" The irides, dark brown ; eyelids, plumbeous ; upper mandible, 

 dark horny brown ; the edges, pale reddish yellow ; the whole 

 lower mandible, pale reddish yellow ; the inside of the mouth, 

 reddish fleshy,; legs, fuscous yellow ; claws, pinkish horny " 



574. — Abrornis superciliaris, Tickell. 



This is the species first described, (Journal, Asiatic Society, 

 1859,p. 414) from Tenasserim, later described by Jerdon and Blyth 



