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Description—Forehead and broad supercilia running down the 
sides of the neck buff, palest on the neck ; lores and two lines above 
and below the eye and a broad patch on each side of the neck, black ; 
crown olive-brown, each feather black-tipped, the black spots some- 
times coalescing so as to make the crown almost wholly black ; nape 
generally blacker than the crown ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts 
bright olive-brown with black bars, varying a good deal in width, but 
always less well-defined on rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail olive- 
brown with black mottling ; scapulars, wing-coverts and inner secon- 
daries chestnut with black drops or bars and large oval patches of pale 
olive-brown ; primaries brown mottled near the tips with rufous, and 
outer secondaries the same with broad rufous edges, becoming chestnut- 
rufous on the inner ones. Chin, cheeks and ear-coverts white or bufty 
white ; foreneck sparingly covered with black feathers with narrow 
white bases ; breast and flanks brownish buff, the feathers with more 
rufous edges ; flanks with round white spots and black bars ; abdomen 
almost white ; under tail-coverts pale buff with broad black bars or 
spots. 
"The feathers of the breast have broad black bases which sometimes 
show through. 
Colours of Soft Parts— Iris dark brown ; eyelids, orbital skin and 
gular skin bright red, red lake, or bright fleshy red ; legs and feet pale 
bright red ; bill brownish black or black. 
Measurements.—Total length about 280 mm. ; wing, males from 
132 to 151, and on an average about 144 mm., females, from 122 to 
139 mm., with an average for 13 birds of about 134 mm. ; tarsus 
39 mm., in females to 42 mm. in males ; bill about 20 to 21 mm. ; tail 
60 to 70 mm. 
Distribution—Pegu and Eastern Burma, North to the Ruby Mines, 
through the Karen Hills into Western, and North-Western Siam and 
the South Shan States. Capt. Venning shot it 10 miles N. E. of 
Myitkyna, and Harington obtained it breeding near Rangoon. 
Pegu birds are very small, and have the backs much less marked 
with black than have birds from elsewhere, and the brown of the breast 
also seems to ke darker and duller. There are, however, only three 
specimens from Pegu in the Nat. His. Museum and the differences 
may be only individual, though I can find none like them amongst the 
40 specimens I have examined from other tracts. 
Nidification—Although this is a comparatively common bird over 
a great area, nothing is recorded of its breeding habits beyond Haring- 
ton’s brief note “ breeds at Tauckhan in June.” 
The eggs taken at this place and now in my possession are typical 
Arboricola eggs in every way, and measure about 37°3 by 28°4 mm. 
Harington in a letter wrote me as follows :— 
“T have at last got the eggs of A. brunneopectus, they were 
found by my man at Taukchan near Rangoon in open bamboo 
