NOTES ON SOME BURMESE BIRDS. 249 



This bird has not before been recorded from Burmah, nor has 

 it been described in this journal. The forehead and front of 

 head, as far back as a line connecting the posterior corners of 

 the eye, white. The whole plumage is black, with the following 

 exceptions, these parts being white : — Lower abdomen, flanks, 

 vent, rump, under and upper tail-coverts, tips of scapulars and 

 of the upper wing-coverts near the body, bases of secondaries 

 and tertiaries, the outer two pairs of rectrices, and the bases of 

 the others, the axillary feathers and the tips of the under wing- 

 coverts. 



The other bird, with the whole lower plumage disintegrated 

 and obviously quite young, has only three white feathers on the 

 front of the head. 



In both birds the bill is black and the legs pale flesh color. 



[Davison has also procured this species at Malewoon. Fur- 

 ther north at Meeta Myo (Tavoy district) and thence through- 

 out the Hills to the very north of the Tenasserim Provinces, we 

 obtained Leschenaulti, Vieill. (coronatus, Tern., speciosa, Horsf.) 

 All our specimens of this latter are, strange to say, males. All 

 agree with Temminck's and Horsfield's figures of this species 

 as to the extent of the white on the head, and not with Mr. 

 Gould's of his supposed cliinensis ; or, as he originally called it, 

 sinensis. The fact is that whether in the Javan, Chinese or 

 Tenasserim birds it is only the forehead that has white feathers 

 fthis Horsfield correctly shows) ; sometimes these white 

 feathers are shorter, but more generally they are long, and when 

 pressed back flat in skins cover the whole crown. In life the 

 bird elevates them much, as shown in Horsfield's plate, and as 

 there shown many of them are in ? younger specimens, 

 narrowly tipped black. Sinensis, are either, as Elwes suggests, 

 females, or else young birds in which this frontal crest is not 

 yet developed. 



Our Leschenaulti, measured in the flesh : — Length, 1 l'O to 

 11-5 ; expanse, 1275 to 13-75 ; tail from vent, 5*5 to 612 ; 

 wing, 4*12 to 4*37; tarsus, 125 to l - 35 ; bill from gape, l'l to 

 1-15.— A. O. H.] 



386 ter.— Pyctorhis altirostris, Jerdon. Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 22. 



See J. A. S. B. 1876, Part II., pp. 74, 197, and S. F., Vol 

 IV., p. 504. 



The re-discovery of this bird in three* different parts of India 

 and Burmah at about the same time is curious. I shot my 

 specimen on the canal bund, about 14 miles from Pegu. That 



* Four ; the same bird has been found in Sindh, — Ed., S. F. 



