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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
This species is close to P.nipalensis, Hodgs._, but is considerably smaller. 
In P. nipalensis the black-shafted feathers of the forehead reach back 
nearly to the eye ; the eye-streak is whitish^ and not buflF, and it is, more- 
over, much speckled with brown ; the streaks on the breast are black, very 
distinctly defined, and extending to the middle of the breast, where they 
are as frequent as elsewhere, whereas in P. intermedium the streaks are 
brown and almost entirely absent from the centre of the breast. 
P . pectoralis , Godwin -Austen, appears to me to be inseparable from 
P. nipalensis. I have examined a number of specimens, including the 
type, and have failed to find any points by which it can be distinguished 
from P. nipalensis. 
P. palustre, Gould (nec Jerd.), is a very well-marked species, having 
the top of the head concolorous with the back and the lower plumage 
strikingly difi'erent to that of any other known species. 
This species was procured at Thayetmyo by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, 
and there is another specimen in the British Museum from Cachar. 
It probably inhabits the whole intervening country. 
Genus ALCIPPE, Blyth, 
70. ALCIPPE NIPALENSIS. 
THE NIPAL QUAKER-THRUSH. 
Siva nipalensis, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 89. Alcippe nipalensis, Jerd. B. Ind. 
ii. p. 18 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 240 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 115 ; David et Oust. 
Ois. Chine, p. 218 ; Hume Dav. S. F. \i. p. 260 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 95 ; 
Scully, S. F. viii. p. 287; Hume, S. F. x. p. 206. 
Description. — Male and female. The top of the head, the nape and upper 
back ashy brown ; ear-coverts and sides of neck rather paler ; lores and 
round the eye whitish ashy ; the chin and cheeks darker than the lores ; 
back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, tail-coverts and tail fulvous brown ; 
wings brown, edged with fulvous on the outer webs ; lower plumage pale 
buff* or earthy brown, whitening on the abdomen ; two dark brown stripes 
extend from the ear-coverts, one on either side the back. 
Bill grey or livid horny, the base of the upper mandible and a line along 
the culmen black ; irides hazel-brown ; feet livid fleshy ; claws grey horny. 
{Scully.) 
Length 5 inches, tail 2*4, wing 2'35, tarsus '8, bill from gape '55. The 
female is about the same size. 
The Nipal Quaker-Thrush appears to be somewhat local and rare in 
