218 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
birds in adult plumage there are a few tiny marks on the 
feathers of the side breast. 
The second primary is equal to the fourth, and the first 
primary projects very slightly indeed beyond the tips of the 
primary coverts. 
I have mislaid my measurements of this bird in the flesh, 
and also the notes on the colours of the soft parts. 
In skins the wing measures 2°3 to 2°45, and the tarsus 0°8 ; 
tail, 2°1 to 2:3. 
251.—Tribura taczanowskia, Swinh. P_Z.S., 1871, 
p- 855. Tribura intermedia, Oates, 8. F., IX, 
p. 220. (522 A.) 
Mr. Brooks has recently examined in England the young 
specimen of this species which was Swinhoe’s type, and he 
assures me that the two species are identical. The first speci- 
mens I got I identified with taczanowskia, and under this name 
it will be found recorded in my list of Burmese birds furnished 
to the B. B. Gazetteer. Mr. Brooks, however, was of opinion 
that the bird was new, and I was induced to describe it as 
intermedia. 
The adult bird was described (7. c.), and it now remains to 
deal with the immature plumage. Mr. Swinhoe’s description 
applies to the bird after the first autumn moult, in which, as in 
L. certhiola, the bird is characterized by its yellow tone of 
plumage. The whole upper plumage is olive brown, as in the 
adult ; the wings and tail hair brown, margined with the colour 
of the upper plumage; shafts of rectrices, viewed from 
below, conspicuously pale; ear-coverts, hair brown; super- 
ciliary streak, cheeks, under the ear-coverts and whole lower 
plumage ‘yellowish buff, tinged with olive brown on _ the 
breast, sides of body, thighs, and tail-coverts; the cheeks are 
faintly barred with olive brown. This description is taken 
from a bird shot in February, and in beautiful new plumage. 
Several birds shot in November and December are, I think, 
birds of the year before the autumnal moult; the chin and 
throat are nearly white; the breast is tinged with brown 
and spotted; the whole remaining underparts are ochraceous 
brown, except the tips of the under tail-coverts, which, as in the 
adult, are broadly whitish ; the superciliary streak and cheeks 
are yellowish brown, the latter conspicuously barred. 
The bird was so fully dealt with when 1 described it first 
that any further description appears unnecessary. 
I met again with it this year from November to the middle 
of February, and had better opportunities of observing its 
habits. On first arrival, and until the crops are cut, it keeps 
to the standing paddy together with the Locustellas aad 
