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edged brighter, obsoletely barred, and each feather with a large, distinct, 
subterminal brown patch and a fulvous-white tip. In summer the upper 
plumage is olive-brown, darker on the head, the feathers of which are 
centred with dark brown ; wings brown, edged with pale olive-brown ; sides 
of the head and lower plumage pale fulvous ; tail brown, obsoletely barred 
and marked at the end as in the winter plumage. 
Iris orange-yellow ; eyelids plumbeous, the edges orange ; upper man- 
dible fleshy brown ; lower pale fleshy, the tips dusky ; mouth flesh- 
coloured ; legs reddish yellow ; claws pinkish horn. 
Length in winter 6 inches, in summer 5*25 ; wing 1*9; tail in winter 3, 
in summer 2-2*5 ; tarsus '8; bill from gape '6. The female is about the 
same size as the male, but generally has the tail shorter. 
The Pegu bird was long ago identified by Mr. Hume with the Chinese 
species, P. extensicauda. On working up these birds in England I find 
that the Chinese and Pegu birds differ, and that Lord Walden quite 
properly gave a name to the latter. These two species and P. inornata 
are very closely allied, and the following remarks may assist in discrimina- 
ting them, though Mr. Sharpe, in his Catalogue, unites them all. 
In summer plumage P. inornata has the underside of the tail sufi'used 
with white ; the subterminal spots are small, not more than half the width 
of the feather, and the upper plumage is a plain ashy brown. P. blanfordi 
has the upper plumage decidedly tinged with olive ; the subterminal spots 
on the tail are very well defined, large, and the full width of the feather. 
In P. extensicauda the upper plumage is tinged with fulvous ; the subter- 
minal spots are small and indistinct. 
In winter plumage, when the tails are long, P. inornata has the upper 
plumage reddish brown ; the tail-feathers underneath and the tips are 
decidedly rufous, and the subterminal spots are very faint or absent. In 
P. blanfordi the upper plumage is fulvoijs-brown, the tail is not rufous 
below, and the subterminal spots are broad and distinct. In P. extensi- 
cauda the upper plumage is fulvous-brown ; the tips to the tail-feathers are 
whitish and the subterminal spots broad but indistinct. The lower plu- 
mage is tinged with yellow, while in the other two it is tinged with rufous. 
The tail, when fully grown, is half an inch longer in P. extensicauda than 
in the others. 
The Burmese Wren-Warbler is very abundant in Pegu, in the southern 
portion, and up the Sittang valley to Tonghoo, along the western side of 
that river. Capt. Ward] aw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo, and I myself 
traced it up to that town, where it began to be rare. Dr. Armstrong pro- 
cured one specimen at Elephant Point. Mr. Davison met with it in 
Tenasserim as far south as Tavoy, but it does not appear to have been 
anywhere common. Capt. Bingham states that he obtained it at Kaukarit 
and at Moulmein. 
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