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Nycthemerus lineatus, Blyth and Walden, Cat. Mam. Birds of Burm., p. 

 149 (1895). 



Euplocamux cuvieri, Gates, B. of Burm., II., p. 318, part (1883). 

 Gennceus lineatus lineatus, Gyldenstolpe, Swedish, Exped.. Siam, p. l-O? 

 (1816). 



Vernacular Names. — Yit, Kayit (Burmese); Rak (Arrahan) ; 

 Synkloiik (Talain) ; Phugyk (Karen). 



Description — Adult Male. — Forehead, crown and crest black, glos- 

 sed, especially on last, with blue-green or, more rarel}', purple blue. 

 Whole of the upper plumage, sides of the neck, wing coverts and 

 exposed portions of the wing quills silver grey in general appearance, 

 palest on the neck and longest tail coverts and darkest on the wing 

 quills and greater coverts. The grey appearance is formed by in- 

 numerable fine wavj^ bars of white on a black ground, these 

 being finest and most numerous on the neck and largest on the wing- 

 quills. The primaries are brown with wavy lines of buff or pale 

 brown on both inner and outer webs, these gradually changing colour 

 until the black and white of the inner secondaries is attained. The 

 ends of the upper tail coverts have the white exceeding the black in 

 extent, the longest being almost pure ^^'hite at their tips. Outer tail 

 feathers black with fine longitudinal lines of buff or buffy white, each 

 succeeding pair having more white and less black, until the central 

 pair, or two pairs, are more or less immaculate over the terminal two- 

 thirds of their length, the fine black lines running further up on the 

 outer than on the inner webs. Below from chin to tail coverts in- 

 clusive black, the neck, breast and sides of the flanks more or less 

 glossed with bluish purple ; sides of neck, breast and flanks w^th 

 white centres to the feathers, these white streaks sometimes extend- 

 ing over the greater part of the breast and generally vermiculated 

 with velvety black on the flanks. 



Colours of the Soft Parts. — Iris brown, hazel or yellow brown; 



facial skin and lappets ci'imson, vivid crimson red or scarlet crimson; 



bill greenish or yellowish-horn}-, darker on the culmen and at the 



base as far as and surrounding the nostrils ; legs and feet plumbeous, 



greenish plumbeous, slate grej', rarely with a greenish bro^vn tinge. 



" The legs and feet were generally pinkish fleshy or pinkish 



"brown; sometimes a sort of bluish horny or plumbeous brown." 



" The irides seem to vary a great deal; some Avere brown, of 



" different shades, usuallj^ more or less tinged with red ; others 



" are noted as ver}^ pale pink, or even fleshy white." (Hume.) 



Measurements. — The series in the British Museum and other 



specimens which have passed through my hands, in all some 50 



birds, shew an extraordinarv variation in size, even in birds which 



are all undoubtedly adult. 



Wing from 8-G" (218-4 mm.) to 10-3" (261-G mm.); tail from 

 9" (228-G mm.) to 13-6" (345-4 mm.); bill from front about 1-15" 

 (29-2 mm.) and from gape about 1-45" (?G-8 mm.); tarsus 3" to 



