120 Birds of Burma. [No. 1, 



brown. Cheeks and ear-coverts mixed pale brown and white. Space before 

 the eye and superciliary ridges, sordid white. Quills and rectrices brown, 

 edged with the colour of the upper plumage. Wing, 2 ; tail, 1'75 ; tarsus, 

 0-68 ; bill, from forehead, 0-60. 



"Iris (¥), dull brown; bill, yellow; legs, fleshy white. Karen hills" 

 (W.R.).] 



[393. SUTA CETNIGEEA (J. 547). 



ThayetMyo (O.).J 



[394. S. ERYTHKOPLEUBA, n.S. 



Male, above rufous brown, the base of the feathers being ash. On the 

 lower back and upper tail-coverts the rufous hue predominates. Space before 

 the eye, dark brown. A white line, springing from near the nostril, passes 

 back over and behind the eye. Ear-coverts, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, 

 abdomen, and wing-lining, creamy white, strongly suffused with rufo-fulvous. 

 Flanks, thigh-coverts, and under tail-coverts bright ferruginous. Quills, 

 brown edged with ferruginous. Rectrices like the back. 



(S)Wing, 1-87; tail, 4-87; tarsus, 0"88; bill, from forehead, 0-65. 

 Tonghoo(JF. £.).] 



*395. Oethotomus longicaotda (J. 530). 



Of general occurrence, extending eastward to South China and Formosa, 

 and southward to Singapore. 



[Tonghoo, Karen nee (W. B.); Thayet Myo (O.); Tenasserim (Z>.). 

 The Ceylon and Indian Tailor-bird must stand 0. sutorius (G. R. Forster), 

 Zool. Ind. p. 17 (1781), even if it be considered identical with the South 

 China species, Muscicapa longicauda, Gm.= 0. phyllorrhaphceus, Swinh., 

 which it appears to be. J 



*396. 0. EDELA. 

 0. edela, Tern., P.O. 599, fig. 2. 



Tavoy, Siam {Gould). According to Mason, "Tailor-birds are very 

 common at Tavoy, though rare at Moulmein." ' He is not likely to have 

 discriminated the particular species. 



[I am not certain which species is intended by Mr. Blyth. The authority 

 of Mr. Gould is quoted for the occurrence of this Javan race of the common 

 Indian Tailor-bird at Tavoy and in Siam. The Javanese 0. edela and the 

 Indian 0. sutorius are barely separable, the Javan being chiefly distinguished 

 by having the lores and superciliary stripe pale ferruginous, and not greyish- 



