Mr. Hume (Stray Eeathers, iii, p. 116) records this species from Upper Pegu,
and speaks of it as being less rufescent than A. poiocephala. The only specimen of
the latter species which I have been able to compare is a Kattywar example
presented by Major Hayes Lloyd to the British Museum., This is perhaps not
quite typical, but it is certain that all my birds are very much more rufescent
than it. The other distinctions mentioned by Mr. Hume hold good.
Genus S t a c h y r i s , Hodgson.
123. S t a c h y r i s n ig r i c e p s , Hodgson,
Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgs., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 878, 1844; id., Proc. Zool. Soc,,
1845, p. 22; id., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xvi, p. 198, 1846; Gray, Cat. B., &c., Nepal, Hodgs.,
p. 74, 1846; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 150, 1849; Bonap. Consp., Gen. Av„
p. 882, 1850; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 231, 1856-58) Jerdon, B.
Ind., vol. ii, p. 21, 1868; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, xxxix, p. 108, 1870;
Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 242, 1873; id., Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 117; Blyth &
Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 116; Hume, Stray Feathers,
1875, pp. 13, 117, 822; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 75;
Oates, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 152.
Timalia nigriceps, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 10, 1849; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 815, 1869.
a. $ Ponsee, 26th March 1868.
b. 8 „ April 1868.
c. ,j „ „
This no way differs from specimens from Darjeeling and Arakan in the Calcutta
Museum. Neither Blyth nor Jerdon mention in their descriptions that there are
two rather obscure black white-edged bands on either side of the back of the neck,
the backward prolongations of a black, white-margined band which runs over the
eye and some distance behind the ear-coverts. The feathers between these two
bands are more brown than black posteriorly, but on the forehead they are darker.
The white margins of the head feathers arranged symmetrically in long lines
alternate with the dark ones. A dark-brown line from the lores passes below
the eye to its posterior angle, and another to the throat enclosing a large white
spot, at the angle of the mouth; on the throat it joins its fellow from the
opposite side, and they expand to form a dark-brown patch on the centre of the
throat and chin.
The specimens are all from the low shrubby jungle about Ponsee.
124. S t a c h y r i s cnRYSiEA, Hodgson,
Staehyris chrysaa, Hodgs., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 879, 1844; Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845,
p. 23 ; Ann. Na t. Hist., vol. xvi, p . 198, 1845; Cat. B., Nep., p. 75, 1846; Blyth, Cat. B.
Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 150, 1849; Bonap. Consp., G. Av., p. 882, 1850 ; Jerdon, B. Ind.,
vol. ii, p. 22, 1863; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 815, 1869; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xxxix, p. 103, 1870; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 245, 1873; Blyth
& Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 116; Godwin-Austen,
Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 75.
Timalia ch/rysaa, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 10, 1849.
a. Ponsee, 80th April 1868.
I procured only one young example of this species, and it is very immature;
at the same time, the identification has been ascertained by comparison with
undoubted individuals of the species of . different ages.
I t is improbable that it ranges to the eastward beyond the Kakhyen hills, as the
character of the fauna changes and becomes more and more Chinese.
Genus P y c t o r h i s , Hodgson.
1 2 5 . P y c t o r h i s s i n e n s i s , G m e l in .
Chinese Titmouse, Lath., Syn., vol. ii, 2, p. 555, 1788.
Parus sinensis, Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 1012, 1788.
Timalia hypoleuca, Frankl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1881, p. 118; id., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. i,
p. 818, 1882 ; Jerdon, Madr. Joum., vol. x, p. 260, 1889; Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist., xii, p. 97,
1843; Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 795, 1842; xii, p. 181,1843; Gray, Gen. B., vol. ij
p. 228, 1846.
Timalia bicolor, Lafresn., Mag. de Zool., 1835, Ois., pi. xxxix.
Timalia horsfieldii, Jerdon & Selby, 111. Orn., pi. 119; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 199,
1842; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 86, 1846.
Pyctorhis hypoleuca, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, p. 83.
Chrysomma hypoleucos, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, p. 602, 1845.
Pyctorhis rufifrons, Hodgs., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845, p. 24.
Chrysomma smense, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 454,1847; id., Cat. B. Mus., As.
Soc., Bengal, p. 150, 1849; Bonap. Consp., p. 216, 1850 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.
Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 280,1854.
Pyctorhis sinensis, Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 15,1868; Stoliczka, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii,
1868, p. .86; King, t. c.? p. 214; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, ,p. 816, 1869; Hume, Nests
and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 287, 1873; id., Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 179; Adam., i.e ., p. 878;
Ball, op. cit., 1874, pi 408; Hume, t., c., p. 475; id., pp. cit., 1875, p. I l 5 ; id., op. cit., 1876,
p. 84; Fairbank, {. c., p. 265; Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875,'
ex. No., p. 117 ; Godwin-Austen, ib., vol. xlv, 1876, p. 74; Oates, Stray Feathers, 1877,
,p. 151.
a. 8 Bhamd, February 1868.
This specimen differs from the Indian birds in the upper parts being slightly
darker, and the under parts pale cinereous white, on the chin, throat and breast,
the belly being of a darker tint of the same colour, slightly tinged with rufous.
Jerdon describes all the lower plumage of the species as white, whereas nearly every
bird has a well marked rufous tinge on the abdomen. There is also always a pale
supercilium, which is prolonged behind the eye.
This is not a common bird about Bhamo.