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From Burmah it has been recorded by Mr. Blyth ; and that gentleman, as well as Dr. Cantor, 

 mention it from Arracan, which appears to be its most northern and western limit. It has been 

 collected by Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay at Rangoon, Pegu, and in the Tonghoo hills. The 

 Marquis of Tweeddale (Ibis, 1870, p. 24) records it from Kyodan and the Salween river, on the 

 authority of Captain Beavan, who also found it at Moulmein singly or in pairs feeding among 

 the flowers. In Siam Sir R. Schomburgk procured it ; and I have seen a male specimen in the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale's cabinet from the same locality, which, according to the label, was taken 

 with the nest and two eggs. From Tenasserim came Mr. Blyth's original types ; and here, 

 according to Mr. Hume (Str. F. 1874, p. 473), it is generally distributed, but is not numerous; 

 and from Tavoy it has been recorded by Mr. Gould on the authority of Mr. Briggs. 



Messrs. Hume and Davison have sent me the following note : — •" The exact limits of this 

 species have yet to be defined ; all we can say certainly about it is that it occurs in Arracan, 

 southward of Akyab, that it occurs in the southern half of Pegu, and in Tenasserim southwards 

 from Moulmein, and thence again along the west coast of the peninsula at Tonka and Penang. 

 Further south than this we have not observed it. 



"At Mergui and along the coast of Malewoon it is extremely abundant, at any rate in 

 December and January ; and it was then in full breeding-plumage. 



" Like C. asiaticus the males put off the breeding-plumage, and assume a dress precisely 

 similar to that of the female, except in so far that they retain a gular stripe. Specimens killed 

 at the close of April had nearly completed the change. 



" Males measured — length 4 - 4 to 45 inches, expanse 6 - 3 to 6 - 8, tail from vent L45 to 1-55, 

 wing l - 95 to 2-12, tarsus 0-5 to - 55, bill from gape 0*7 to 8, weight a little over 0*25 oz. 



"Female — length 4^27 to 4 - 37 inches, expanse 6'25 to 6 - 5, tail from vent 1*3 to L45, wing 

 2 to 2-05, tarsus 0-45 to 0-5, bill from gape 0"7 to 0'75. 



" Legs, feet, bill, and claws black ; irides dark brown." 



Two specimens from Penang, one in Mr. Swinhoe's cabinet, collected by Pere Martin, and 

 another in the Marquis of Tweeddale's, have a few of the frontal feathers tipped with steel-blue> 

 while another specimen, nominally from the same locality, docs not possess these metallic colours 

 on the forehead. 1 am inclined to doubt the slight metallic shades on the forehead being a 

 constant mark of the Penang bird, which, I should observe, differs in no other respect either in 

 colour or measurements from the specimens which I have examined from Moulmein, Siam, 

 Tonghoo, or Rangoon ; and this character is not of specific value. A very similar instance of 

 variation is to be met with in some specimens of C. jugularis. 



According to Mr. Hume (Nests and Eggs of Ind. B. p. 154): — " Mr. T. Theobald states that 

 he obtained a nest of this species at Tavoy on the 1st February. The nest resembled that of 

 A. asiatica, and was a neat purse, suspended in a lime-tree (Citrus). It contained two oval 

 pyriform eggs, pale greenish, speckled with greyish ash, which measured 0'56 by 0'43 inch. I 

 suspect some error in measurement here; the dimensions are apparently too small for the bird." 



My figures and descriptions are taken from a pair of Moulmein birds collected by Captain 

 Beavan, now in the Marquis of Tweeddale's cabinet. 



