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Arboricola intermedins, Blyth. 



Vernacular Names-— [Toun-bka (Burmese), Pegu% 



HE area of distribution of this species is as yet quite 

 undefined. It has been sent from various places in 

 the Aracan Hills, from as low down as opposite Sando- 

 way to as high up as above the town of Aracan 

 itself. It extends quite to the foot of the hills on 

 their eastern side, where a specimen was shot by 

 Captain Swetenham near the 24th mile of the 

 military road leading across the mountains from P'rome to 

 Tonghoo [fide Oates.) 



Again, Godwin-Austen says he obtained it in N. Cachar and 

 in the Naga Hills. 



Nothing further is known of its distribution within our limits, 

 but outside these I have specimens from the neighbourhood 

 of Bhamo, in Independent Burma. 



I HAVE never seen this bird alive, and nothing, so far as I 

 know, has ever been recorded about its habits,, food or nidifi- 

 cation. 



Skins measure:— 



Length, io*o to iro; wing, 5*15 to 57 ; tail from vent, 2*2 to 

 2*4 ; tarsus, 1*5 ; bill from gape, o # 8 to 0*9. 



We know nothing of the colours of the soft parts, but the bill 

 seems to be black and the legs red. There appears to be no 

 difference in the plumage of the sexes. 



The PLATE is fair, but the crown is olive, not black, as the 

 peculiar shading might lead the unwary to suppose. There are 

 no brown crescentic markings on the breast (also, I suppose, an 

 eccentric form of shading), and the back should be a little more 

 olivaceous. The size of the black patch on the throat varies 

 much in different specimens. 



