Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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    403. L. COLLTTRIOIDES. L. collurioidts, Lesson, Voyage Belanger, p. 250 ; L. hypoleueus, nobis, J. A. S. B. xvii. p. 249. Pegu, Martaban, Tenasserim provinces, Siam. “ Thayet Myo and Ava in cold season only” (IF. T. Blanford). [Rangoon, Tonghoo, Thayet Myo, Karen nee {TV. it!.).] *404. TePURODORNIS pelvica (,T. 263). Arakan, Tenasserim, Hainan. [Karen hills (TV. B.); Thayet Myo (0.).] *405. T. ponticehiana (J. 265). Pegu. [Tonghoo (TV. B.); Thayet Myo (0.).] *406. Hyloterpe Philomela (J. 266). Arakan, Pinang, Java, Romeo, Andaman Islands. [Must stand Hyloterpe grisola (Blyth). Hylocharis occipitalis, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 202, is synonymous.] 407. Hemipus obscurus. Muscicapa obscura, Horsfielcl; M. hirundinacea, Reinwardt. Mergui.* [408. H. picatus (J. 267). Muscicapapicata, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85. Tonghoo, Karen nee, at 1500 feet, Tsan koo hills (TV. B.) ■ Thayet Myo (0.); Pahpoon (D.). All the examples sent to me by both Major Lloyd and Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay, from the Tonghoo province, belong to the South Indian and Ceylon species. But Mr. Blyth seems to be correct in his opinion that the Assam bird, M. capitalis, is a distinct species. All the examples of the male I have seen from Darjeeling, Assam, and the Naga hills, have the back brown, and the head alone black (cf. Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 368 ; Jcrdon, op. cit. 1872, p. 116; and compare Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 435 ; 1875, p. 93). Young males in both species wear the female dress. The young II. picatus in transition plumage, before assuming the full black dorsal garb, shows brown on the back. H. capitalis, S, when adult, retains the brown colouring on the back ] * Mason also gives M. picatus, moaning doubtless M. capitalis (cf. Ibis, 1866, p. 368).