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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The female has hardly any black on the fore neck^ and the yellow on 
the edge of the wing is duller. 
Iris orange-brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; upper mandible brown^ lower 
one and gape flesh-colour ; legs flesh-colour ; claws pale horn-colour. 
Length 4*5 inches^ tail 1*6_, wing 1*8^ tarsus "8^ bill from gape '7. The 
female is much the same size as the male. 
The Black-necked Tailor-bird is very common in Southern Pegu from 
Rangoon (where Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay obtained it) up to Pegu_, and 
still further north up the valley of the Pegu river. Mr. Davison found it 
throughout Tenasserim_, except on the higher hills. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula^ and is also found in Borneo. 
Dr. Tiraud gives it from Cochin China. Col. Godwin-Austen procured it 
in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal. 
This Tailor-bird frequents thick forest and brushwood^ and is not found 
much in gardens or cultivated land. It is entirely arboreal^ never 
descending to the ground to feed. 
Genus PHYLLOBATES *, Shar;pe. 
110. PHYLLOBATES CORONATUS. 
THE GOLDEN-HEADED TAILOR-BIRD. 
Orthotomus coronatus, Jerd. ^ Bl P. Z. S. 1861, p. 200 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 168 ; 
Hume^ Nests and Eggs, p. 334 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 121 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 
1877, p. 115 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 346 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101. Phyllo- 
bates coronatus, Shai-pe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vii. p. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and crown chestnut ; a short 
stripe over the eye yellow,, this line produced over the ear-coverts white ; 
lores and the upper part of the ear-coverts dark ashy brown ; lower part 
of the ear-coverts silvery white ; nape^ sides and back of the neck ashy ; 
back, rump, upper tail- coverts and wing-coverts yellowish green ; wings 
brown^ edged with yellowish green ; tail brown, the inner webs of the 
two outer pairs of feathers white ; chin, throat and breast white; 
remainder of lower plumage bright yellow. 
, Legs and feet yellowish fleshy ; upper mandible, tips and edges of lower 
mandible along commissure black ; rest of bill yellowish fleshy ; irides 
brown. (Davison.) 
* In dealing with those Warblers which are contained in Mr. Sharpe's forthcoming- 
volume of the Catalogue, 1 again gladly avail myself of his kind permission to make use 
of his nomenclature. 
