THE YELLOW-BELLIED WREN-WARBLER. Ill 
Length 4*5 inches, tail 17, wing 1*8, tarsus -75, bill from gape '7. The 
female is of about the same size. 
The Golden-headed Tailor-bird was procured in the Tsankoo hills, east 
o£ Tonghoo, by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay at an elevation of 3000 feet. 
Mr. Davison also obtained it on the higher slopes of Mooleyit in 
Tenasserim. 
It is a bird which is not very well known. It occurs in Sikhim and in 
the hill- tracts of Eastern Bengal. 
In habits this species does not differ from the Indian Tailor-bird. 
Mr. Davison observes that they are not easily overlooked, as on the 
approach of any one they utter a low buzzing note of alarm, which they 
keep up as long as they suspect danger. 
Genus BUENESIA, BL 
111. BURNESIA FLAVIVENTRIS. 
THE YELLOW-BELLIED WREN-WARBLER. 
Orthotomus flaviventris, Deless. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 101. Prinia flaviventris, 
Je7'd. B. Ind. ii. p. 169 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 334 ; Bl. 8f Wcdd. B. Burm. 
p. 118 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 158 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 466 ; Hume 8j- 
JDav. S. F. V\. p. 347 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101 ; Doig, S. F. viii. p. 378 ; Butler, 
S. F. ix. p. 386 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 219. Prinia rafflesi, Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, 
p. 311 , pi. vi. fig. 1 . Burnesia flaviventris, Sharpe, Cat. Brit. B. Mus. vii . p. . 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, crown, lores, and ear-coverts 
dark ashy ; nape, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts yellowish 
green ; tail brown, tinged with fulvous j quills and coverts brown, edged 
with the colour of the back ; cheeks, chin, throat and breast white ; 
abdomen, sides of the body, vent and under tail-coverts bright yellow. 
In new plumage the tail is tipped rather broadly with pale yellow. 
^ These tippings are, however, soon worn off. 
Mouth black ; iris reddish yellow ; eyelids plumbeous ; bill black ; 
legs orange-fleshy ; claws yellowish. In the non-breeding season the 
mouth is flesh-coloured. 
Length 5*7 inches, tail 2*5 to 3, wing 1"75, tarsus '8, bill from gape 
•65. The female is rather smaller. 
This bird does not appear to undergo any seasonal change of plumage, 
except in the acquisition of a short white superciliary streak in winter. The 
tail is of the same length throughout the year. Young birds have the chin, 
throat and breast yellow like the abdomen. B. sonitans, Swinhoe, from 
China appears to me a fairly distinguishable species. The lower plumage 
is strongly tinged with buff" in that species. Mr. Sharpe has informed me 
