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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Tonglioo hills_, and also in Karennee^ at elevations of from 2500 to 4000 
feet. 
Mr. Davison says that it is rare in the northern portions of Tenasserim. 
He procured specimens at the Pah-Choung_, in the pine-forests of the 
Salween and at Kyouknyat. Capt. Bingham records it from the Thoung- 
yeen valley. 
It extends into South China^ the Indo-Burmese countries and the greater 
part of Northern India. In the summer some of the birds may possibly 
migrate to Central Asia^ but a large number appear to remain in the 
Himalayas to breed. They make a small nest of grass on the ground 
under a clod or tuft of grass, and the eggs are similar to those of P. maura. 
Genus XANTHOPYGIA, Blyth. 
269. XANTHOPYGIA FULIGINOSA. 
THE PLUMBEOUS WATER-ROBIN. ^ 
Phoenicura fuliginosa, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 3o. Ruticilla fuliginosa, Je^-d. B. 
Ind. ii. p. 142 ; Hume 8f Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 212, pi. xv. Nymphgea 
fuliginosa, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 322. Rhyacornis fuliginosa, Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 101 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 171 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 100 ; 
Scully, S. F. viii. p. 303 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 176. Xanthopygia fuliginosa, 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 253. 
Description. — Male. The whole plumage dull cyaneous ; tail-coverts, 
both upper and lower, the vent and the tail bright chestnut ; wings black 
with bluish edgings. 
Female. Upper plumage from the forehead to the rump dull bluish 
brown; upper and under tail-coverts white; tail with the base white, the 
outer four pairs of feathers with an increasing quantity of white, till on the 
outermost pair it occupies all the feather except a margin ; the portion of 
tail which is not white dark brown ; lores and ear- coverts dusky, mottled 
with white ; whole lower plumage ashy brown, each feather centred with 
whitish and margined with paler ashy ; upper wing-coverts and tertiaries 
brown, edged with rufescent and tipped with whitish ; quills brown, edged 
narrowly with rufescent. 
Bill black ; gape fleshy white ; irides dark brown ; feet dark horny brown ; 
claws black. (Scully.) 
Length 5*4 inches, tail 2*2, wing 2*8, tarsus '85, bill from gape '7. The 
female is of about the same size. 
The Plumbeous Water-Robin is stated by Mr. Blyth to have occurred in 
