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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
322. PRIONOCHILUS MACULATUS. 
THE WHITE-THROATED ELOWERPECKER. 
Pardalotus maculatus, Temm. PI. Col. 600. fig. 3. Prionochilus maculatus, 
Salvad. TJcc. Born. p. 164 ; Hume 8^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 199 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 90. 
Description. — Male. The whole upper plumage and lesser wing-coverts 
yellowish green ; a patch o£ fiery red on the crown ; greater coverts^ wings 
and tail brown edged with green ; sides of the head ashy green ; lores and 
moustachial streak greenish white ; a dull green streak below this mous- 
tache ; the space between these green streaks pale yellow ; breast and sides 
o£ the neck bright yellow streaked with brown ; abdomen^ vent and under 
tail-coverts bright yellow ; sides of the body yellow washed with dusky ; 
under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. 
The/em«/e differs only in having the coronal patch yellow. 
In the males the legs and feet were very dark plumbeous, in the female 
dirty smalt-blue ; the upper mandible and lower mandible to angle of gonys 
black ; rest plumbeous in males, smalt-blue in the female ; irides dull red. 
[Davison.) 
Length 3*7 inches, tail 1*1, wing 2*1, tarsus '5, bill from gape '5. The 
female is smaller. 
The White-throated Elowerpecker, according to Mr. Davison, is found 
in Tenasserim from its southernmost point to about Mergui or a little 
further north ; and he states that it is rare. 
It occurs in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 
323. PRIONOCHILUS MODESTUS. 
HUMFS ELOWERPECKER. 
Prionochilus modestus, Hume, 8. F. ill. p. 298 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 200 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 90 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 171 ; Hume, S. F. x. p. 198 
(note). 
Description. — "The whole upper plumage is a dark olive-green, in some 
specimens precisely the shade of Dicceum concolor, Jerd., in others some- 
what lighter and brighter ; the rump and upper tail-coverts are slightly 
yellower ; the quills, coverts and tail-feathers are dark hair-brown, all 
edged with yellowish olive-green ; all the tail-feathers are very narrowly 
tipped with white, the tipping on the exterior feathers of the tail being 
much deeper on the inner webs. The shoulder of the wing is white ; the 
