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AlCIPPE PH^OCEPHAIA DAVISOKI, Sp. nOV. 



The Tenasserim Quaker-Thrush. 



Similar to A. magnirostris, from Karennee, but the stripes on the head 

 are entirely wanting or only very faint indications of them; also very 

 similar to A. brucei from Western India, but is much darker. 



Description. — Head and neck ashy brown well defined from the back ; 

 stripes on head wanting or only faint indications ; ear-coverts hair-brown ; 

 chin and throat whitish ; under parts ochraceous, flanks olivaceous. 



Wing measurement : males, average 71 mm. or 2-8", max., 73 mm, or 

 2-85," min., 68 mm. or 2-68." Female, 70 mm. or 2-7." Bill, upper mandible 

 horn, lower yellowish. Culmen, 13 to 14 mm. oi " Iris slaty-grey to slaty- 

 yellow." 



flume, Str. Frs., vi., p. 260 " Bij-ds of Tenasserim." 



In pointing out the differences between A. phayrei and nepalensis, says, 

 " Phayrei may be distinguished at once from nepalensis by its larger size, 

 much larger bill, browner ear-coverts, and by the almost entire want in most 

 specimens, and the comparatively feeble trace in the rest, of the very conspicuous 

 black sinoeipital stripes luhich characterize nepalensis. 



Distribution. — Tavoy, Mergui and to the south, the dividing line between 

 this sub-species and magnirostris is about the latitude of Moulmein, birds to 

 the south of this show very little signs of any stripes on the head, and fur- 

 ther south none whatever. 



Habits, — Occurs throughout the province, only in the low hills. 



Nests within a few feet of the ground at low elevations, eggs in the 

 Museum [phayrei from Tenasserim) are pinkish-white, blotched and streaked 

 with reddish-pink, and with faint spots of purple. Measuring '68" to '78" 

 by -53" to -59". 



(To he continued.) 



