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BIKDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Female. According to Mr. Hume^ the stripe over and behind the eye is 
less marked and greyish white ; the lores are very pale grey ; the forehead 
and crovrn are pure clear grey^ shaded on the occiput with olivaceous ; the 
entire back, scapulars and lesser wing-coverts pale greenish grey, faintly 
fulvous on the rump, and generally purer grey on the longest upper tail- 
coverts. 
Legs and feet fleshy white ; claws pale brown to black ; lower mandible 
and basal edges of upper mandible along commissure pale blue ; rest of 
bill black ; irides varied considerably, slaty grey, pale greenish blue, and 
deep brown. [Davison.) 
Length 6'7 inches, tail 2*3, wing 3, tarsus 1*05^ bill from gape '9. The 
female is quite as large. 
This species is very close to P. erythropterus of the Himalayas, differing 
chiefly in having the tertiaries golden yellow on the outer webs. P. rufi- 
venter is another species of large size, somewhat similar, but differing, 
among other points, in having the tail-feathers broadly tipped with 
chestnut. 
TickelFs Shrike-Tit was first described from specimens obtained on the 
Tenasserim mountains by Col. Tickell at elevations from 3500 to 4500 
feet. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee from 4000 to 5000 
feet elevation, and Mr. Davison rediscovered the bird in Tenasserim on 
Mooleyit mountain ; and it also probably occurs in the hills of Sumatra, 
as P. cameranoi seems hardly distinguishable. 
Out of Burmah it is known to occur in the Kachyin hills east of Bhamo, 
on the borders of China, where Dr. Anderson observed it. One of his 
specimens is in the British Museum. 
Mr. Davison says : — I have only obtained this species in the forests of 
Mooleyit, where I found it usually in pairs, occasionally singly, hunting 
about the smaller branches and foliage for insects. It has a rather plea- 
sant single note, which might be syllablized toweech, which it utters at 
short intervals, especially if there are two or more together. It is not 
shy, and I believe not uncommon ; but from always keeping among the 
thick foliage of the tree-tops (and I have never seen them elsewhere) they 
are seldom seen, and consequently seldom shot. If a pair happen to be 
together and one is shot, the other, after a very short interval, commences 
calling, flying from branch to branch and tree to tree looking for its 
mate/^ 
