A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU, 921 
placed about one foot from the ground in a bunch of grass, 
and in the two instances where I found the nest, against a 
weed, with one or two leaves of which the materials of the nest 
were slightly bound. . 
The eggs are very: glossy pale blue, spotted all over with 
large and small blotches of rusty brown. I have no eggs of 
cursitans which match them, in this species the spots being 
always minute and thickly scattered over the shell, whereas in 
volitans the marks are large, and fewer in number, Six eggs 
measured in length from *54 to ‘57, and in breadth from 
*42 to 43, : 
This species is easily distinguished from cursitans by its 
small size, the total absence of rufous on the upper plumage, 
and by the narrow tippings to the tail feathers. The colour of 
the head is also quite sufficient to separate the males. 
Since writing the above I am inclined to think that C. rufi- 
ceps, Gould, C. erythrocephala, Jerdon, C. volitans, Swinhoe, 
and the Pegu bird may be all one species.* 
259. —Drymeeca blanfordi, Wald. (548 ter.) 
Recorded from Tounghoo by Ramsay. It is probably 
Phylloscopus fuscatus. I have not met with it. 
260.—Drymeca extensicauda, Swinh. 
Mr. Brooks took home lately a very large series of this bird 
which I gave him. He has compared them with the birds in 
the Swinhoe collection, and found them identical.f 
I have already described the bird, (S. F., IIT, 340). It 
occurs very abundantly round Pegu and Kyeikpadein, and along 
the canal and plains on both sides. It also occurs at Rangoon 
and all the way up to Pegu, but is not so abundant anywhere 
as it is in the grass plains near Pegu. 
261.—Suya crinigera, Hodgs. (547.) 
Occurs only near Thyetmyo so far as I am aware. 
262.—Neornis flavolivaceus, Hodgs. (552.) 
. Mr. Hume identified a bad specimen of this bird I sent him 
from Thyetmyo. I have the bird still, and. I think the identi- 
* Of C. ruficeps, Gould, I have no knowledge, but (C. erythrocephala, Jerdon, 
with the wing 1:9 to20 is quite distinct. But C.volitans, Swinhoe, is of course 
nothing but C. ftytleri, Blyth, and as I long ago pointed out, (S. F., V. 351) 
C. melanocephala, Anderson, and C. ruficollis, Walden, are only the females of tytleri 
or volitans, whichever name stands—a point I have already discussed, ante p. 219 
n—kKEd., S. F. 
+ Seven years ago (vide S. F., III, 340) I identified this species for Mr. Oates, 
by comparison with birds sent me by Mr. Swinhoe. It hardly needed to send a 
large series home for cowparison.—LD., 8. F. 
