AND SPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THOUNGYEEN VALLEY. 143 



Female*.— Length, 6'9 to 72; expanse, 13*3 to 137 ; wing, 

 4-0 to 4-37 ; tail from vent, 2 7 to 2*95 ; tarsus, 0'84 to 0*9 ; 

 bill from gape, 0*5 to 0'62. Colors of the soft parts as in the 

 male. 



I have more than once noticed this bird descend to the 

 ground in search of a grasshopper or other iusect after the 

 manner of the King Crow. 



For.nidification, vide S. P., Vol. V., p. 80. 



23 bis.— Astur poliopsis, Hume. 



This bird, 1 fancy, is more or less migratory. I have noticed 

 it come in in great numbers both at Maulmain and at Meea- 

 wuddy in November and December. 



A large male measured in the flesh : — Length, 13*20 ; wing, 

 8-10; tail from vent, 6*20; tarsus, 2-10 ; bill from gape, 0*90. 



Bill black, having on the under mandible, below the gape, a 

 bluish spot on each side ; legs and feet yellow ; cere and gape 

 greenish yellow ; irides light lake red. 



In the young bird the iris is light yellow. 



23 for— Astur soloensis, Horsf. 



Only one immature specimen of this rare bird was procured 

 by Mr. Davison in the extreme south of Tenasserim at Male- 

 woon. 



On the 12th April this year I shot an old adult female in 

 open teak forest on the bank of the Thablooko choung, Thoun- 

 gyeen river. 



Its dimensions, etc., in the flesh Avere as follow : — 



Length, 11 -95 ; expanse, 25*0; wing, 7*63 ; tail from vent, 

 5*9 ; tarsus, 17 ; bill from gape, 0*8. 



Bill horny plumbeous ; cere and orbits light yellow ; legs and 

 feet orange yellow ; irides pale straw color. It agrees very well 

 with Mr. Sharpe's description of the adult (Cat. I., 115,) only 

 instead of being " light bluish grey above" it is very dark 

 slaty. The entire wing lining and axillaries are uniform pale 

 buffy white. 1 noticed nothing particular about it at the 

 time of shooting, but on dissection fouud the remains of a 

 lizard and a frog in its stomach. 



34.— Limnaetus caligatus, Raff. 



A very rare bird in Tenasserim, which does not, so far as I 

 know, occur in the Thoungyeen valley. A young male I pro- 

 cured at Yeaboo on the Attaran river, measured in the flesh : — 

 Length, 2(?0; expanse, 54'0; wing, 16*7; tail from vent, 12*8; 

 tarsus, 3-8 j bill from gape, 1*9. Cere, bill, and claws black ; 

 feet dirty greenish white; iris clear greyish brown. 



