THE BURMESE WHISTLING-THRUSH. 
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Subfamily MYIOTHEEINtE. 
Genus MYIOPHONEUS, Temm. 
15. MYIOPHONEUS EUGENEI. 
THE BURMESE WHISTLING-THRUSH. 
M3n.ophoneus eugenei, Hume, S. F. i. p. 475, iii. p. 106, v. p. 113 ; Hume ^ Dav. 
S. F. vi. p. 236; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 93; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 176. 
Description, — Male and female. Like tlie next species^ M. temmincki, 
but wanting the whitish tips to the median wing-coverts. 
Bill orange-yellow, the region of the nostrils and a portion of the culmen 
dark brown ; mouth yellow ; iris umber-brown ; eyelids straw-yellow ; legs 
black. 
Length 13'5 inches, tail 5'4, wing 7'2, tarsus 2*3, bill from gape 1*65. 
The female is smaller. 
This species differs from M. temmincki not only in the character pointed 
out above, but also in having a very much larger bill, which is almost 
entirely yellow. 
The Burmese Whistling-Thrush is found in the whole of Pegu east of 
the Irrawaddy, wherever there are rocky nullahs. Captain Wardlaw 
Ramsay observed it in the Karin hills. According to Mr. Davison, it is 
confined in Tenasserim to the hills and isolated limestone rocks of the 
northern and central portions only. Captain Bingham records it from the 
Thoungyeen valley. It is also said to occur in Siam. 
This beautiful Thrush is abundant in rocky hill-streams, going about 
singly or in couples. It feeds largely on land-shells which it breaks to 
pieces against rocks in the nullah, and large heaps of fragments of shells 
may usually be seen where these birds abound. It has a fine whistling 
series of notes. Capt. Bingham has favoured me with an account of the 
finding of the nest of this species in the Thoungyeen valley. As no 
account of the nest or eggs has ever been published, I have much pleasure 
in giving Capt. Bingham^s interesting account in full. 
On the I6th April I was crossing the Mehkhaneh stream, a feeder of 
the Meh-pa-leh, the largest tributary of the Thoungyeen river, near its 
source, where it is a mere mountain-torrent brawling over a bed of rocks 
strewed with great boulders. A small tree, drifted down by the last rains, had 
caught across two of these and being jammed in by the force of the water, 
had half broken across, and now formed a sort of temporary V-shaped 
dam, against which pieces of wood, bark, leaves and rubbish had collected, 
rising some six inches or so above the water, which found an exit below 
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