142 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



In conclusion my best thanks* are due to Mr. Hume for 

 his aid in identifying obscure species, and for allowing me 

 the use, for purposes of comparison, of the grand series of 

 Tenasserim Birds in his Museum. 



List of Species. 



2.— Otogyps calvus, Scop. 



The Indian King-Vulture is distributed sparingly throughout 

 Tenasserim. At Kaukarit, on the Houndraw river, I have seen 

 several pairs at various times. It occurs also in the Thoun- 

 gyeen valley, and seems to me much more of a forest Vulture 

 than the commoner Psendogyps bengalensis. In September 1877 

 a pair of these Vultures, accompanied by an immature young 

 one, found out the carcase of an elephant that had died in my 

 camp, at that time pitched in dense evergreen forest at the head 

 waters of the Thoungyeen, but strange to say none of P. benga- 

 lensis turned up. 



6. — Pseudogyps bengalensis, Gm. 



Common throughout Tenasserim. I have seen hundreds assem- 

 bled round the carcases of elephants and buffaloes near Kaukarit. 



In the Thoungyeen valley I have noticed it at Laidawgyee, 

 on the Thablooko choung, at Meeawuddy, at Hpoyoobah, and 

 various villages in the Meplay valley. 



16 bis.— Poliohierax insignis, Wald. 



Mr. Davison got this at Meeawuddy aud Laidawgyee in the 

 Thoungyeen valley ( S. ¥., Vol. VI., p. 2). I have not myself 

 come across it. 



20. — Microhierax ccerulescens, Lin. 



Common on both sides of the Dawna range, the western 

 boundary of the Thoungyeen valley. In August 1879 I noticed 

 a great number in the dry Dillenia forests near Meeawuddy. 

 There must have been nearly a hundred of them on the road to 

 Kaukarit between Meeawuddy and Thingaugyeenoun. The 

 measurements in the flesh of a large series is as follow : — 



Males.— Length, 6-10 to 6-40; expanse, 11-50 to 12*20; 

 wings, 3-77 to 3'88 ; tail from vent, 2-60 to 270 j tarsus, 0'78 

 to 0^82 ; bill from gape, 0-40 to 0-51. 



Bill plumbeous, blackish at tip ; cere and feet black ; legs 

 dull blackish on the back surface, tinged with green in front ; 

 claws horny ; hides nut brown. 



* The obligation is really all the other way. To Captain Bingham our museum is 

 indebted for many hundred fine specimens of birds and numerous large aeries of 

 rare eggs. To no contributors do we owe so much as to Captains Bingham and 

 Butler, though Miss Cockburn, Messrs. Adam, Bourdillon, Chill, Cleveland, Cripps, 

 Doig, Inglis, Parker, Reid, Unwin, and Vidal, have all aided us most materially, to say 

 nothing of nearly an hundred occasional contributors. — Ed., S. F. 



