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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
assume the full plumage during the first year. At the final stage the black 
feathers are narrowly margined with olive-brown and the under tail-coverts 
are cinnamon. 
Bill dusky, blackish above and fleshy at base of lower mandible ; irides 
dark brown; feet fleshy brown^ the toes darker; claws blackish, pale at 
tips. [Scully.) 
Length 6'5 inches, tail 2*8, wing 3-2, tarsus '75, bill from gape "6, crest 
about 'S. The female is rather smaller. 
The Crested Bunting is said by Mr. Blyth to occur both in Arrakan and 
Pegu ; and Mr. Hume states that he has received it from the former 
Division. I have never myself met with it in Pegu. Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay procured it in the Karin hills up to 3000 feet, and also in 
Karennee ; it appears to have been common in both these localities. Mr. 
Davison observed it at Beeling in Tenasserim, but on one occasion only. 
This Bunting is found in South China, Siam and the Indo-Burmese 
countries, extending along the Himalayas and over a great part of India. 
Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay states that " this is by far the commonest 
Bunting in the Karennee country, where the rocky scrub-covered hill-sides 
seem to suit it. It is particularly fond of the neighbourhood of tiny 
streams covered over with bushes in the open country. Their note, which 
is uttered on the wing, is a rather pleasing whistle, quite unlike that of 
any other Bunting.''^ 
This bird appears to be more or less a resident species wherever it 
occurs. In India the nest, which is cup-shaped in form and chiefly made 
of grass, is placed in holes of banks or walls, on the ground under a clod, 
or in a thick tuft of grass. The eggs, which are three or four in number, 
are greenish white, marked with reddish or purplish brown. 
Family PLOCEIDiE. 
Genus PLOCEUS, Cm. 
337. PLOCEUS BAYA. 
THE BAYA. 
Ploceus baya, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 945 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 343 (part.) ; Blanf. 
J, A. S. B. xli. pt. ii. p. 167 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 436 (part.) ; id. S. F. iii. 
p, 153 ; Hume 8f Dav. S, F. vi. p. 398 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 106. Ploceus 
philippinus, apud Bl. B. Burm. p. 92 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 160. 
Description. — Male in summer. Forehead and top of head yellow ; the 
whole upper plumage with the wings and tail dark brown edged with 
