198 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
That this bird undergoes any change of plumage at all is 
quite contrary to my experience. I have males in full plu- 
mage shot in every month of the year, and I have taken 
several nests in March, when certainly the male birds were in 
full dress. The fact is that the young male is plumaged like 
the female till the following February, and that during the 
winter months there are more young males about than old 
ones, owing to this species having two or more broods a year.* 
141.—Diceum cruentatum, Lath. (236.) 
Extremely common over the whole of the province. 
142.—Diceum trigonostigma, Scop. (236 bis.) 
I have only one female of this species shot at Kyeikpadein. 
It appears to be very rare. 
143.—Diceeum chrysorrheeum, Tem. (237.) 
Only procured near Rangoon, where it is not uncommon. 
‘Captain Ramsay records it from Tounghoo. 
144.—Piprisoma agile, Tick. (240.) 
Several specimens, shot at Kyeikpadein, are identical with 
an Indian specimen. I have procured it nowhere else within 
my limits. My men got a specimen at Malewoon in South 
Tenasserim which I identified with Prionochilus modestus, 
Hume, till I got an Indian example of P. agile with which to 
compare it. The two seem very close to each other.} 
145.—Sitta neglecta, Walden. (250 bis.) 
This Nuthatch is found in all the dry forests of the lower 
hills and plains over the whole province. It also frequents 
secondary jungle, compounds and open country where there 
are a few trees. 
* T have no doubt Mr. Oates is right; at the same time we have very few males 
in full plumage shot in the winter, and it seemed fair to conclude that these were 
only exceptions, that as in ‘the parallel case of asiatica retained the breeding 
plumage right through. Abont one in fifty I should say of asiaticus do this on 
the average, though this is commoner in damp warm localities, and rarer in dry 
cold ones. In the case of flammawillaris, I only went by a very large series of 
specimens. But Davison confirmed this view by his own personal observation of 
the extreme difficulty of getting full-plumaged males during the winter.—Ep., 8. F. 
+ I hope Mr. Oates will again compare his specimens. I rather doubt Péprisoma 
agile occurring at Malewoon. The fact is that though usually, broadly speaking, this 
species isa pale grey brown with a faint greenish tinge, and P, modestus a pure 
green, yet I have seen faded birds of the latter undistinguishable, so far as colour 
went, from freshly moulted ones of the former. But the bills differ altogether ; that 
of modestus is considerably longer, and yet the gonys of agile is a third longer than 
that of modestus! If P, agile really occurs at Malewoon, it is an interesting 
fact.—Ep., 8. F. 
