142 BIRDS OF BEITISH BUUMAH. 
only a small portion immediately behind the neck. The rump and upper 
tail- coverts are also a much deeper maroon. 
I have not been able to examine a specimen of L. davisoni. Mr. Hume 
identifies it with L. saturata, but it is described as having the rump and 
upper tail- coverts mingled black and maroon. Neither in L. annectens nor 
L. saturata is there any black on those parts. 
The Burmese Black-headed Shrike-Tit was procured in Karennee by 
Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay between 5000 and 6000 feet elevation. Mr. Davi- 
son also got it on Mooleyit in Tenasserim^ on the higher portions of the 
mountain. He says : — " I only found this bird at Mooleyit, quite near the 
top, usually in pairs, sometimes singly. I found it generally about the 
large trees surrounding the ^ Sakans ' or camping-grounds, strange to say 
climbing about the trunk and branches much after the manner of a Nut- 
hatch. I have also seen it hunting about the leaves and smaller branches 
of the tree-tops. Those I killed had eaten only insects.^^ 
Genus LIOTHRIX, Swains. 
138. LIOTHRIX LUTEUS, 
THE RED-BILLED HILL-TIT. 
Sylvia lutea, Scop. Del. Faun, et Flo)\ Insuhr. ii. p. 96. Parus furcatus, Tetnm. 
PI. Col. 287. f. 1. Bahila callipyga, Hodys. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 88. Leiothrix 
luteus, Jei'd. B. Ind. ii. p. 250. Leiothrix callipyga, Hume, Nests and Eggs., 
p. 390 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 629. Liothrix lutea, Bl. B. Burm. p. 109 ; 
David et Oust. Ois. CJiine, p. 214, pi. 67 ; Hume., S. F. viii. p. 104. 
Description. — Male. The whole upper plumage olive-green, tinged with 
yellow on the forehead and occiput and with slaty on the back in some 
specimens ; small median coverts olive-green ; greater coverts olive- green 
on the outer webs and dull slaty on the inner ; lores pale yellow, tinged 
with orange near the bill ; ear-coverts silvery slaty ; feathers round the 
eye more or less whitish ; a moustachial streak from the bill to below the 
ear-coverts slaty ; chin and throat deep yellow, tinged with orange and 
terminating in a bright orange gorget on the lower throat ; breast and 
centre of abdomen greyish yellow ; flanks slaty ; under tail-coverts bright 
yellow ; primaries dark brown, the first seven black on the outer web next 
the shaft and bordered with bright yellow tinged with red near the base ; 
the next three primaries black on the outer webs and margined at the base 
and towards the tip also with flaming red ; the first four secondaries black 
on the outer webs, with a patch of yellow near the base and an internal 
patch of greenish slaty increasing in size towards the body ; the remaining 
