3. HEIIOENIS. 233 



and lower throat olive-brown with a greenisli tinge ; fore neck and 

 entire sides of body brown, rather paler on the former; entire breast 

 white ; the outer flank-feathers and under tail-coverts barred with 

 light brown and white ; under wiug-coverts, axillaries, and quills 

 below sooty brown : " bill orange-yellow, paler at the tip ; tarsi 

 and toes light green, the webs turning to yellow towards the edges ; 

 claws horn-colour ; iris hazel-brown ; edges of eyelids yellow " 

 {E. W. Oates). Total length 20 inches, culmen 2-2, wing 9-6, 

 tail 4*7, tarsus 2, middle toe and claw '61. 



Adult female. Similar to the male on the upper surface, but 

 distinguished by its white throat and fore part of cheeks, the white 

 being surrounded by the black on each side of the face descending 

 down the throat and meeting in a point : " biU dull yellow, shaded 

 about the middle with brown ; iris ochreous yellow ; eyelids pea- 

 green " ( W. Davison). Total length 20 inches, culmen 2, wing 9, 

 tail 4-8, tarsus 1-8, middle toe and claw 2-7. 



Touncf. Resembles the adult female, but is much duller in colour, 

 with less green above, the head browner than in the adult hen ; 

 throat white, surrounded by the same black band as in the adult 

 female, but not so broad and complete. 



Uah. From Karennee to Cambodia, south through Tenasserim to 

 Malacca and Sumatra. 



a. c? ad. sk. Karen-nee {Lloyd). Oates Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. Engmah Swamp, Prome dis- Oates Coll. 



trict, July 7 {E. W. O.). 



c. c? ad. sk. Mergui, Tenasserim, Jan. 30 Hume Coll. 



( W. Davison). 



d. 2 ad. sk. Amherst, ^larch 3. Hume Coll. 



e. $ juv. sk. Kintob, Houngthraw R. {J. Hume Coll. 



Darling). 



f. 2 ad. sk. Bankasoon, Feb. 28 ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 

 ff. Ad. sk. Klan^r, Selangore, Jan. 14 Hume Coll. 



( ir. D.). 



h. Imm. sk. :Malacca, Sept. ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



i. c? ad. sk. Malacca. Earl of Ellenborough [P. J. 



(Tvpe of species.) 

 k. 2 nd. sk. Cambodia. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



3. HELIORNIS. 



Tvpo. 



Heliomis. Bonn. Tab. Mith. i. Introd. p. G4 (1790) H. Yulica. 



Podoa, Illiger, Prodr. p. 207 (1811) H. fidica. 



Range. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Heliomis falica. 



Le Grebifoulque de Cayenne, Daubcnt. Fl. Enl. ix. pi. 89.^. 

 Le Grebe-foulque, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. y. i'4S (1780. 

 The Surinam Tern, Jiroirn, III. Zool. p. 98, pi. xxxix. (1770). 

 Surinam Darter, /,/////. f^ru. Si/n. iii. ].t. '2. p. Ci'ti (1785). 

 Colynibus fuiica, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 54 (1783). 



