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BIRDS OF BEITISH BURMAH, 
white^ slightly tinged with grey; ear-coverts ashy white; under wing- 
coverts pale yellow ; the feathers of the crest slightly dark-shafted. 
Upper mandible fleshy horn-colour^ the edges and the whole lower 
mandible light flesh-colour ; gape yellow ; mouth yellow ; eyelids plum- 
beous ; iris brown ; legs and claws pinkish flesh-colour. 
Length 4*8 inches_, tail 1'8, wing 2*65, tarsus '7, bill from gape '6. The 
female is rather smaller than the male. 
The White-bellied Flowerpecker is found in all the forests of Pegu, 
alike in the hills and plains. Mr. Blyth states that it occurs in Arrakan. 
Mr. Davison found it distributed throughout the evergreen forests of 
Tenasserim ; and Capt. Bingham says it is very common in the Thoungyeen 
valley, in the same Division. 
It has been found in the Malay peninsula, at Tonka according to 
Mr. Hume, and at Malacca according to Mr. Blyth. It occurs in the 
Indo-Burmese countries, the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, Sikhim and 
Nipal. 
This species afi'ects forests, and does not occur in open country. I have 
generally found it in large companies, each flock scattered over several 
contiguous trees, the leaves of which the birds were searching for the 
minute insects on which they feed. They keep up a continuous twitter. 
I have never been able to find the nest ; and I can find no information on 
the subject of their nidification. 
Herpornis tyrannula is a closely allied form from Formosa and Hainan. 
Family TROGLODYTID^E. 
Genus PNOEPYGA, Hodgs. 
148. PNOEPYGA ALBIVENTRIS. 
THE SCALY-BREASTED HILL-WREN. 
Tesia albiventer, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. vi. p. 102. Microura squamata, Gould, 
Icon, Av. pi. V. Pnoepyga squamata, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 488 ; Wald. in Bl. 
B. Burm, p. 99 ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. pt. ii. p. 101 ; David et 
Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 227 ; Hume 8f Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 234 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 93. 
Pnoepyga albiventris, 8harpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 302. 
Description. — Upper plumage and wing-coverts chocolate -brown^ each 
feather tipped darker and with a spot of fulvous near the tip ; ear-coverts 
