THE BURMESE BLACK-HEADED SHRIKE-TIT. 
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edging of the same about the middle of the outer web^, most of the later 
quills minutely tipped with white ; tail black ; lower plumage from chin to 
vent white, the flanks boldly barred with black ; vent and under tail-coverts 
pale buff". 
The female has the slaty colour of the head paler ; the band round the 
head from the forehead to and inclusive of the ear-coverts is chocolate- 
brown ; the back and scapulars are reddish brown with large oval black 
spots ; the other parts are the same as in the male. 
Bill blackish above, plumbeous beneath ; legs orange-yellow ; irides 
brown. {Jerdon.^ 
Length 7 inches, tail 2*5, wing 3*5, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1. 
The Chestnut-backed Shrike-Tit was procured by Captain Wardla 
Ramsay in Karennee, at an altitude of 6000 feet. 
It occurs in Bhootan and throughout the Himalayas. Colonel Godwin - 
Austen also observed it in the Dafla hills in Assam. 
Dr. Jerdon says that this bird frequents very high trees in small flock , 
and lives both on fruits and insects. I can find nothing more recorded 
about it. 
Genus LIOPTILA, Blyth. 
137. LIOPTILA SATURATA. 
THE BURMESE BLACK-HEADED SHRIKE-TIT. 
Lioptila annectans, apud Wald. in Bl. B, Burm. p. 109. Lioptila saturata, 
Wold. Ibis, 1875, p. 352 (footnote) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464 ; Hume 
8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 370 ; Wardlaio Ramsay, Tiveedd. Mem. App. p. 667. Leio- 
ptila davisoni, Hume, S. F. v. p. 110. 
Description. — Male and female. Head and nape, lores and sides of the 
head black; upper back black streaked with white; lower back, rump, 
scapulars and upper tail-coverts deep maroon ; lesser and median wing- 
coverts black ; greater coverts black tipped with maroon ; quills black, all 
but the first two primaries edged externally with grey, and the tertiaries 
also tipped with greyish white ; sides of neck black ; chin, throat, breast 
and abdomen white ; flanks, vent and under tail-coverts pale ferruginous ; 
tail black, all but the two central pairs broadly tipped with white. 
The upper and half the lower mandible black; rest of lower mandible, 
legs, feet and claws fleshy yellow; irides greyish brown. {Davison.) 
Length 7 inches, tail 3*4, wing 3*1, tarsus '95, bill from gape 85. The 
female appears to be a trifle smaller. 
The description is taken from the type of L. saturata. It diff'ers from 
the Indian species in having the greater part of the back black, instead of 
