168 . A FIRST LIST OF THE 



distance, but when closely examined most of the feathers of the 

 wing and upper tail coverts exhibiting an excessively fine powder- 

 ing of dusky and more ruf escent brown ; besides this, the second- 

 aries exhibit numerous imperfect paler wavy bars, very much 

 broken up and wide apart, and here and there bordered with darker 

 brown. The whole of the back and the sides of the neck with 

 narrow white arrow-head bars, which sometimes have a darker 

 brown line running along their margins. The inner webs of the 

 quills a dark hair brown, a little powdered, and freckled chiefly 

 towards the tips wdth dull pale rufous. The outer webs of the 

 primaries, a very pale olive brown, only slightly freckled with 

 darker brown ; the winglet, darker ; and the outer w T ebs more 

 strongly mottled with dark brown and a very pale olive brown ; 

 the longer upper tail coverts, buffy or buffy brown, very finely 

 freckled, and vermicillated with dark brown ; the central tail 

 feathers, buffy or rufescent white, freckled or irregularly vermi- 

 cillated on the outer webs, except quite at the tips, with blackish 

 brown. The remaining six tail feathers on either side with the 

 outer webs most irregularly, but broadly, barred wdth black and 

 white ; along the centre of the white bars run a series of black 

 spots and blotches, and in the middle of the black intersj)aces 

 are blotches and clouds of mingled chestnut and fulvous. The 

 exterior four pairs, with the inner webs, much like the outer ; the 

 next pair, with the inner w r ebs towards the tips yellowish wdiite, 

 freckled and blotched with black ; and the next pair with the 

 whole of the inner webs similar, and thus resembling the outer 

 w r ebs of the central pair. The chin and throat, pale whity 

 brown ; some of the feathers, paler centred j the basal portion of 

 the front of the neck and the whole of the rest of the lower 

 parts, chestnut; each feather, with a moderately broad w T hite central 

 shaft stripe. The white, not very sharply defined, but freckled 

 towards its edges, wdth browm or chestnut on the breast, and dark 

 brown on the flanks, sides, and lower tail coverts. The flanks and 

 tibial plumes are similar to the rest of the low T er parts, but have 

 a somewhat browner shade ; the low r er surface of the quills and 

 greater lower coverts, a pale glossy grey brow r n. The rest of the 

 whig lining a sort of pale chestnut brown, each feather with a 

 very narrow shaft stripe. 



Captain Feilden says : " This bird is tolerably common in the 

 hills west of Thayetmyo, but appears to be unknown to any but 

 Burmese. It seems to require rock and very steep hill-sides 

 covered by long grass for shelter, and flat alluvial soil bare of 

 grass, and covered wdth brushwood and young trees, for feeding 

 ground ; in fact, its feeding ground is precisely the same as that 

 of the Black Woodpecker, and I have several times lost a bird 

 of each species by being undecided which to fire at. An old 

 male is a most extraordinary looking bird. The tail only is seen 



