Stray Feathers - a Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies July 1882

The area now dealt with is bounded on the north by the frontier line separating British from Independent Bnrma and running east and west at about the latitude of 19 40 north ; on the east the boundary is the Sittang river ; on the west the Irrawaddy river and its most westerly discharge channel the Bassein creek. [...] The edge of the wing is white the breast is brown and the throat with the lores and forehead nearly pure white ; the top of the head is rufous and the plumage generally is brown where in the adult it is grey; the bars on the tail; which in the old bird are interruped are in the young very clearly defined and unbroken. [...] (116 Lie.) I saw one specimen on the Pegu hills near the frontier and I procured a few birds of this species in the tract of forest between the Sittang and the hills. [...] I observed it common in the streams and fisheries lyino.n between the Sittang and the Pegu hills north of Paghein and it seems abundant in the Irrawaddy delta. [...] abundant in the Thyetmyo district and becomes less common to the eastward disappearing altogether I think at the sumit of the ridge of the Pegu range.* 103.—Gecinus striolatus Bly.