. Birds. Birds. MYIOPHONEtrS. 179 Cachar; Manipur; Arrakan, and probably the whole country west of the Irrawaddy river; Karennee and the Karen hills, where this is found together with the next species. This bird also extends into Afghanistan and Turkestan. In summer this species is found up to 11,000 feet, but in winter it descends to lower levels and even to the plains. In Oachar it is said to be merely a winter visitor. Habits, 6(c. This species frequents hill-streams and torrents, perching on rocks and snags and feeding largely on snails, the shells of which are frequently found accumulated
. Birds. Birds. MYIOPHONEtrS. 179 Cachar; Manipur; Arrakan, and probably the whole country west of the Irrawaddy river; Karennee and the Karen hills, where this is found together with the next species. This bird also extends into Afghanistan and Turkestan. In summer this species is found up to 11,000 feet, but in winter it descends to lower levels and even to the plains. In Oachar it is said to be merely a winter visitor. Habits, 6(c. This species frequents hill-streams and torrents, perching on rocks and snags and feeding largely on snails, the shells of which are frequently found accumulated on the ground where the bird has been in the habit of breaking them up. It has a loud and pretty whistling note. It breeds from April to June, con- structing a massive cup-shaped nest of roots and moss in a crevice of a rock or in the root of some up-turned tree in the river-bed near or under a waterfall, and laying from three to five eggs, which are pale grey or green, speckled with pink and brown. The eggs measure 1'42 by 1, 188. Myiophouens eugenii. The Burmese Whistling-Thrush. Myiophoneus eugenei, Hume, S. F. i, p. 475 (1873), iii, p. 106, v, p. 118, note; Hume 8/- Dav. S. F. vi, p. 236; Hume, Cat. no. 343 bis; Bingham, 8. F. ix, p. 176 ; Oates, S. F. x, p. 204; id. B. B. i, p. 17; Sharps, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 9; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) V, p. 610; Oates in HumSs N. Sf E. 2nd ed. i, p. Fig. 52.—Head of M. engenii. Coloration, Eesembles M. temmincki. Differs in having the median upper wing-coverts without the conspicuous white tips of that species, and in having a bill much larger and with less black on the upper mandible. Bill orange-yellow, the region of the nostrils and a portion of the culmen dark brown; month yellow; iris umber-brown; eyelids straw-yellow; legs black. Length about 13"5; tail 5-5; wing 7; tarsus 2-3; bill from gape 1"7. Distribution, The whole of Pegu east of the Irrawaddy river; the Karen hills ; Karennee; the pine-forests of
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