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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    each other, or conspecies, and it is remarkable that Ceylon examples are not so dark coloured as are those from the mainland of South India, nor so grey as are Himalayan specimens. In Tardus melaleucus, J. E. Gray {IT. niveiceps, Swinhoe), of China, however, we have the same type, with the coral-red bill, hut the black cap replaced by pure white; a remarkable variation, which is repeated among the black-headed and white-headed cinnamon- coloured munia grosbeaks. [Tonghoo, Karen hills, at 1500 feet. Iris, hair-brown; bill and legs, lake-red (7T. It.). II. yunanensis, Anderson, is synonymous. The white- capped Chinese species must stand H. leucocephalus (Gm.), founded on Sonnerat’s Merle Dominiquain de la Chine, Voy. Indes, ii. p. 191.] *455. H. MACCLELLANDI (J. 447). H. holti, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 266. Arakan, South China. 456. H. TICKELLI. II. tickelli, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 275. Tenasserim provinces. [Karen nee hills, 2500, 4000 feet. Iris, red-brown; bill, brown ; legs, fleshy brown (TF. It.). Under-surface of body plumage hardly distinguish¬ able from the same in IT. malaccensis.~\ *457. IoLE VIBIDESCENS. Iole viridescens, nobis, Ibis, 1867, p. 7 ; I. virescens, nobis, .1. A. S. B. xiv. 573. Arakan, Khasias, Tippera, Tenasserim (where obtained by Heifer). [Tonghoo (Z.); Yey-tho, Tsan koo hills ( W. _K.).] *458. Hemixus flavala (J. 448). Pycnonotusflavala (Ilodgs.), Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, pi. 59. Khasias, Arakan, Tenasserim. A representative species, H. castaneinotus, Swinhoe, inhabits Hainan. [IT. hildehrandi, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 508. Karen hills, at 2000 feet. Iris ( ? ), lake-brown ; bill, black ; legs, light brown (W. It.); forests north of Pahpoon (Z.). A representative form, with the head and crest dark brown, not grey. Probably the species determined by Mr. Blyth as JET. flavala.] 459. Teachycomus ocheocephalus. Turdus ochrooephalus, Gm.; Tricophorus crispiceps, nobis, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 204. Mergui. Common at Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo.