THE BURMESE QUAKER-THRUSH. 
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Burmah. Mr. Hume states that he has seen a specimen which was pro- 
cured in the northern part of the Pegu hills. Mr. Davison procured it in 
Tenasserim in the pine-forests of the Salween and on Mooleyit mountain, 
and also at the foot of Mount Nwalabo. Mr. Blyth records it from 
Arrakan. I have never myself met with it. 
Out of Burmah it occurs in Nipal and Sikhim, and also in the Khasia 
and Dafla hills. It extends into China, and is probably spread over the 
Indo- Burmese countries. 
Mr. Davison states that this species goes about the brushwood in flocks, 
hunting about amongst the leaves and on the ground for insects. They 
are very lively birds, moving about quickly and keeping up a continual 
twittering. 
In the Himalayas they appear to breed from March to May. The nest 
is described as being cup-shaped and made of bamboo-leaves bound together 
by fine roots, which material also forms the lining of the nest. It is 
placed in a small bush at a short distance from the ground. The eggs 
are white, speckled with purplish red. 
71. ALCIPPE PHAYRII. 
THE BURMESE QUAKER-THRUSH. 
Alcippe phayrei, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 601 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 116, v. p. 60 ; 
Hume Dav. S. F. vi. p. 260 ; Anders. Yunnan Fxped. p. 635, pi. xlviii. ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 95. Alcippe magnirostris, JFald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 115 ; Hume, 
S. F. V. p. 56 ; Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 487. Alcippe fusca, Godwin- Austen, J. 
A. S. B. xlv. p. 197 ; Hmne, S. F. v. p. 54. 
Description. — Male and female. Very similar to A, nipalensisj but the 
ashy brown of the head does not extend to the upper back ; the ear-coverts 
are fulvous brown, and not ashy ; the stripes from the ear-coverts down 
the sides of the neck and back are either absent or present in an obsolete 
form only. The tail and back are more brown and less fulvous, and the 
sides of the neck are fulvous and not ashy. 
Iris whity brown to greyish blue ; eyelids plumbeous ; mouth yellow ; 
legs and claws dusky flesh-colour; upper mandible dusky brown, the 
lower one somewhat paler and turning to yellow at the base. 
Length 6*2 inches, tail 2'8, wing 2*7, tarsus '85, bill from gape '75. 
The female is of the same size. 
This and the preceding species are very similar, but in addition to the 
small differences in coloration they may be readily distinguished by their 
size. I have examined the type of A. fusca, Godw.-Aust., and identify 
it without hesitation with A. phayrii. A. cinerea, Eyton, the type of the 
