230 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
tinged with pale yellowish buff; the lower neck, breast, and 
abdomen grey. With this exception the whole lower plumage 
is a beautiful rosy buff, deeper in colour on the flanks, 
Tail black, the outer five pairs of feathers broadly, the, 
middle pair narrowly, tipped with buff. 
A younger bird has some of the secondaries plain brown, the 
wing-coverts and scapulars pure white, and the rosy buff tinge 
on the lower surface is much duller. In other respects it 
resembles the adult. 
A male measured :—Length, 8°; expanse, 12:5; tail, 2°6; 
wing, 4°; tarsus, 1:08; bill from gape, 1:05. The bill was 
uniformly blue ; the mouth darker; iris white ; legs plumbeous ; 
claws horn colour. 
306.—Sturnia burmanica, Jerd. (689 bis.) 
Very abundant in the Thyetmyo district, becoming less 
common, but extending south down to Rangoon. In the 
Sittang valley I have never seen it, but I note that Captain 
Ramsay got it at Tounghoo. 
307.—Sturnia sturnina, Pall. (689 sev.) 
I have only seen this bird once. It was a specimen in Mr. 
Raikes’s collection, and was shot about ten miles north of Pegu. 
It was an adult bird, with a distinct patch of violet black on 
the head. 
308.—Eulabes intermedia, 4. Hay. (693.) 
Very common over the whole province. It also extends 
without change down to the extreme end of Tenasserim, from 
which province I have a large series. At Malewoon, however, 
another quite distinct species is also met with, which, if not 
javanensis, is the Malaccan species indicated by Lord Walden. 
(lois, 1871, p. 176.) 
From intermedia it differs in the very large size of the bill 
and legs, and in having a longer tail and wing. ‘The feathered 
patch across the side of the head is joined on to the ear-coverts, 
or is separated by an interval less than the thickness of a 
hair pin, whereas in intermedia,—and I have examined a 
hundred birds or more—the interval is never less than ‘15 of 
an inch—a very striking difference. The first primary is 
*9 long; in intermedia only *75. The fifth primary is fre- 
quently the longest, and in no case falls short of the others by 
more than ‘1, whereas in intermedia the fifth primary is always 
about ‘25 shorter than the longest. The colour of the bill in 
dried specimens of the two species is strikingly different. 
