A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. - 197 
134.—Arachnothera aurata, Bly. (223 bis.) 
Common on the eastern slopes of the Pegu hills in evergreen 
forests. Occurs also in the belt of jungle between the hills. 
and the Sittang. 
135.—Arachnothera longirostra, Lath. (224.) 
I procured one specimen only on the hills about ten miles 
north of Pegu. It probably occurs generally over the hills. 
Captain Ramsay procured it at Tounghoo. 
136.—Asthopyga cara, Hume. (225 ter.) 
Abundant round Rangoon. It is also common on the hills 
near Pegu. I procured it on the banks of the Sittang a little 
below Shwaygheen, and Captain Ramsay records it from 
Tounghoo. 
137.—Cinnyris hasselti, Tem. (233 dis.) 
In the course of some years I have shot a few specimens 
of this Honeysucker. It occurs at Kyeikpadein, and also on 
the hills north of Pegu, but is rare. 
138.—Anthreptes pheenicotis, Tem. (233 sezt.) 
I did not meet with this species in Thyetmyo; but 
throughout Lower Peeu it is extremely common. Captain 
Ramsay shot it at Tounghoo. It is perhaps more common near 
Rangoon than elsewhere in the province. As it occurs in 
Tipperah on one side and Tenasserim on the other, it is pro- 
bably found in every part of Pegu. 
139.—Cinnyris asiaticus, Lath. (234.) 
Found in every part of the province, but nowhere very com- 
mon according to my experience. 
140.—Cinnyris flammaxillaris, Bly. (234 ter.) 
Confined to Lower Pegu, south of’a line drawn roughly from 
Henzada to Shwaygheen. In this tract it is extremely 
common. 
In a note contributed by Messrs. Hume and Davison to 
Captain Shelley’s Sunbirds, they state that, like C. asiaticus, 
the males put off the breeding plumage in the winter and 
assume a dress precisely similar to that of the female, except 
in so far as they retain a gular stripe. Specimens killed at 
the close of April had nearly completed the change. 
I presume the change here meant is that of the male from 
winter to breeding plumage again. 
