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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
genus, occurs in the Malay peninsula ; its lower plumage is ashy,, and the 
upper tail-coverts and rump are tinged with ochraceous. 
The Burmese Quaker-Thrush is found abundantly in the evergreen 
forests on the eastern spurs of the Pegu hills. I have not observed it 
elsewhere in Pegu. Mr. Davison found it spread over the whole of Tenas- 
serim in suitable localities in the low hills and at their bases. Capt. 
Bingham states that it is common in the Thoungyeen valley and also in 
that of the Yonzaleen. It was procured in Karennee at an elevation of 
3000 feet by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay. It also occurs in Arrakan. 
Dr. Anderson observed it to the east of Bhamo, and Col. Godwin-Austen 
got it in the Naga hills. 
The birds which I had the opportunity of noticing on the Pegu hills 
were generally found deep down in the valleys, creeping amongst the 
brushwood on the sides of nullahs. I did not hear them utter any note. 
Nothing is known about their nidification. 
Genus POMATOHHINUS, Horsf. 
72. POMATORHINUS OLIVACEUS. 
THE TENASSERIM SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
Pomatorhinus olivaceus, Bl. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 451 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 137 ; Dav. 
S. F. v. p. 458 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 283 Wardlmo Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, 
p. 133 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 96, ix. p. 117 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 180. 
Description. — Male and female. The head from the bill to the nape 
slate- colour ; lores and ear-coverts black ; asupercilium reaching from the 
nostrils to the nape white ; a patch on either side of the neck, behind the 
ear-coverts, chestnut ; the upper plumage, tail and wings olive-green ; the 
inner webs of the feathers of the wing plain brown, and the tail faintly 
cross-barred with a darker tint ; chin, throat, cheeks, breast and abdomen 
pure white ; sides of the breast and of the body light earthy brown ; thighs, 
under tail-coverts and flanks dark olive-green. 
Mr. Limborg states that the bill is yellow and the legs grey. 
Length 9 inches, tail 4*5, wing 3'6, tarsus 1-3, bill from gape 1-3. 
The Tenasserim Scimitar Babbler was first described by Mr. Blyth from 
a specimen procured at Ye. Mr. Davison met with it in Tenasserim from 
Thoungya Sakan down to Malewoon, in the less elevated ranges of moun- 
tains and the neighbourhood of their bases. Capt. Bingham states that it 
is found throughout the Thoungyeen valley. 
It has also been obtained at Kussoom in the Malay peninsula. 
Capt. Bingham found the nest on the 4th March in the Meplay-Forest 
