136 Birds of Burma . 



[470. P. ATRICAPILLT7S. 



Muscicapa atricapilla, Vieill. N. Diet. 21, p. 489 (1818) ; A. Hay, M. J. L. Sc. xiii. p. 

 160; Ibis, 1866, p. 318. 



Hcematornis chrysorrhoides, Lafr., "Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 367. 



Karen nee, from 1000 to 2000 feet ( W. JR.); Pahpoon, Meeta Myo hills, 

 Tavoy (Z).).] 



*471. BlTBIGTJLA ELAYIYEOTKIS (J. 456). 



Arakan, Tenasserim, Siam. Common. 

 [Bangoon, Tonghoo, Karen nee (W. B.).] 



*472. Beachypodius melakocephalits. 

 Lanius melanocephalus ^ Gm. ; Turdus atriceps, Tern., P.O. 147. JBok-iva. 



Tippera, Arakan, Tenasserim provinces, Malacca, Sumatra. Dr. Stoliczka 

 remarks that he has seen this species " darting after insects almost like a 

 Flycatcher." 



[Karen nee {W. JR.).'] 



[473. B. CIJSTEKEIYEOTRIS. 

 B. cinereiventris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 576. 



Tonghoo {W. JR.). I have great doubts whether this is a species distinct 

 from B. melanocephalus. It seems to be rather a variety, the yellow of the 

 nape and under surface being changed to grey. A Malaccan example in my 

 collection is in a stage of transition from yellow to grey. "Where not grey, 

 these examples do not differ from B. melanocephalus. Mr. Blyth describes 

 {I. c.) "the tail-feathers as being less deeply tipped with yellow," etc., 

 but the rectrices in these two examples are identical with those of Malaccan 

 and Burman specimens of B. melanocephalus. In Sumatran Ixus chalco- 

 cephalus all the yellow plumage of B. melanocephalus is changed to grey, the 

 black and metallic parts only remaining the same in the two forms. Whether 

 it be considered as a distinct species or not, B. cinereiventris is an interesting 

 example of an "incipient" species.] 



Subfam. Phyllornithinje (Hurriahs). 



474. Phyllobots jaye^sis. 

 Meliphaga javensis, Horsfield; Chloropsis sonnerattii, Jard. and Selby, Ill^Orn. pi. 1O0 ; 

 Gould, B. As. pt. xiii. pi. 6. 



This Malayan species was obtained on Moule-it mountain by CoL Tickell.^ 

 [Ye (2).).] 



* J. A. S. B. xxiv. p, 277. 



