226 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
other parts of Lower Pegu. It does not arrive till November, 
and remains on to April, when they are in perfect breeding 
plumage. 
Males up to December have the head pure black. After 
this date the black gives place to an ash, more or less marked 
with black, and in April the pure black is resumed. 
Females from first arrival up to their departure have the 
head more or less mixed black and ashy. I have never seen 
a black-headed female, nor is the head in this sex ever pure 
ashy. 
The upper plumage in both sexes is always a pure grey. 
In the breeding plumage, both sexes are black from the 
bill down to the breast. In winter the chin and throat become 
white, but there are always traces of black spots on the throat, 
especially on its sides. 
The white on the wing-coverts is not of great extent, being 
about the same as in dukhunensis. In other respects the plu- 
mage does not differ from dukhunensis.* 
A male measured :—Length, 8° ; expanse, 12°; tail, 4°; wing, 
3°85; tarsus, *94; bill from gape, ‘8. 
The iris is brown ; legs and claws black ; bill black, slightly 
plumbeous at the base. 
The females are rather smaller than the males. 
It is a very sprightly bird, and very seldom seen away from 
water. 
279.—Calobates melanope, Pall. (592.) 
A fairly common bird, and probably extending to all parts 
of the province. 
280.—Budytes cinereocapillus, Saw. (593.) 
Extremely abundant in all the swamps and paddy fields of 
the province. A very large series of these yellow Wagtails 
sent to Mr. Brooks were all identified by him with this species. 
T notice that Dr. Armstrong found £B. flava common in the 
Irrawaddy delta, but he did not get the present species. I 
fear there must have been some confusion of species, the more 
so as B. flava of Dr, Armstrong’s Catalogue (8. F., IV, p. 329) 
is numbered 593 quat by Mr. Hume; whereas there is no 
such number in the Catalogue, Birds of India,f (8. F., VIII). 
Mr. Brooks is, however, such a very excellent authority of 
these birds that I enter cinereocapilla in this list, and exclude 
* Except in the conspicuous black line through the lores, by which the bird is at 
once distinguished.—Ep., S. F. 
+ No, but flava was 593 quat in the old catalogue, which the list published in 
Vol, VIIL, superseded—Ep., 5, F.” i 
