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But what I have to say further ou these subjects must await 

 my general account of the Birds of Tenasserim, and I shall only 

 add that it is to be borne in mind that the Hills of Tenasserim do 

 not belong zoographically to Burmah, but are the frontiers a 

 distinct province which includes part, at any rate, of both 

 Siam and China. 



Allotrius intermedins. 



Male. — Length, 4*7; expanse, 7*6; tail, 1*6; wing, 2'45; 

 tarsus, 0"75 ; bill, from gape, 0*55 ; weight, 0*46 oz. Lower 

 mandible and edge of upper mandible pale bine ; rest of upper 

 mandible black; irides, brown ; legs, feet aud claws, fleshy. 



Lores and a conspicuous frontal band, intense ferruginous 

 chestnut ; forehead above this bright, gamboge yellow ; entire 

 upper parts and central tail feathers, a rich yellowish olive 

 green. A pure white band encircles the eye ; this band is broken 

 by a black spot at the anterior angle of the eye ; it is similarly 

 broken at the posterior angle by the end of a black line which 

 thence runs down behind it and encircles the whole of that 

 portion of the white band that is below the eye. The band over 

 the posterior portion of the eye is broader there than •lsewhere ; 

 thence changing rather suddenly to blue grey, it runs back over 

 the ear-coverts and then turns down round their posterior tips. 

 There is no collar, but just where the grey band turns down 

 round the ear-coverts it throws out a little angle of grey about 

 0'2 long and O'l wide at its base. This is constant in all speci- 

 mens, and we have here the rudimentary indication of the broad 

 blue grey collar of the Himalayan species. 



Chin, throat, middle of breast, deep chestnut streakily ex- 

 tending to the upper abdomen ; sides of neck, ear-coverts (ex- 

 cept their tips, which are colored like the back,) sides of breast, 

 middle of abdomen, vent and lower tail coverts, intensely bright 

 yellow. 



Wing lining, axillaries, flanks and tibial plumes silky white ; 

 the sides of the breast and abdomen in some specimens faintly 

 tinged with the colour of the back ; wing coverts, black ; median 

 and larger broadly tipped white ; quills black exteriorly at 

 their bases, changing to deep hair brown ; the primaries narrowly 

 edged white ; secondaries and tertiaries, more and more broadly 

 margined and overlaid with the color of the back, and narrowly 

 tipped white. 



Tail, except central feathers, black, tipped white, more and 

 more broadly as they recede from the centre feathers, and with 

 the exterior one with fully the basal half of the outer and nearly 

 the whole of the inner web white. 



I notice that the amount of white in the tail varies a good 

 deal in different specimens. 



