226 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



breast blackish brown, with a rufous spot at the tip, giving 

 the breast the appearance of being black-spotted. 



In the younger female the plumage is darker and more 

 mottled in appearance, more black showing on the throat 

 and breast and the bases of the feathers of the head : beneath 

 rufous, pectoral feathers blackish, tipped with rufous. One 

 specimen from Bantam (Forbes) in Canon Tristram's col- 

 lection, which is marked a female, is very markedly rufous 

 above, especially on the wing- and upper tail-coverts. 



Javan birds have the wing 5*8 inches, tail 7, tarsus 075, 

 bill - 85. Tenasserim and Burmah birds (M. assimilis, 

 Hume) are rather larger : Aving 6*1 inches, tail 6"8 to 7:1. 



The only Bornean specimen which I have examined, 

 obtained by Mr. Whitehead on Kinabalu, is a young male, 

 and is even smaller than Javan birds, having the wing 5*3 

 inches and the tail 5*7. 



Birds from Java, Sumatra, and Borneo seem to be all 

 alike in plumage, and to have the dark metallic green 

 barrings on the nape and mantle more pronounced than in 

 those from the Burmese countries. 



Hob. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim, 

 Burmah. 



The great mass of evidence from the series of birds, many 

 of them carefully sexed, either by Mr. Davison or myself, goes 

 to show that in this species the sexes differ. It is true that 

 one of Mr. Davison's Tenasserim specimens in male plumage 

 is marked female ; but it is obvious that the symbol has been 

 added to the label by a native collector, and not by Mr. Davi- 

 son himself, who made his symbols in quite a different 

 manner. 



In almost every instance in which my conclusions as re- 

 gards sexual plumages have been confuted by specimens of a 

 reliable collector, I have found something irregular about 

 the label. 



Iris pearly white (pinkish or brown in the young) j or- 

 bital skin pale blue-grey, with an inner ring of blue ; bill 

 pale brown ; legs and feet brownish pink or red. 



