AND SPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THOUNGYEEN VALLEY. 151 



I got a second, strange to say, far inland, at Meeawuddy on 

 the Thoungveen river, of which the following are the dimen- 

 sions, etc., taken in the flesh : — 



Femafe. — Length, 9'21 ; expanse, 18*6 ; wing, 4*5; tail 

 from vent, 6*1 ; bill from gape, 1*25 ; tarsus, 0*85. 



Bill fleshy brown ; legs and feet dirty pale brown ; irides 

 dark brown. 



114. — Caprimulgus monticolus, Frankl. 



I have not found this Nightjar common in Tenasserim. Two 

 specimens I have were procured — male, on the 11th July 1879, 

 at Koosaik on the Thoungyeen river : female, at Kaukarit 

 on the Houndraw river, on the 16th November 1879. Only 

 the latter was measured in the flesh. Its dimensions etc., are — 



Length, 10*3; expanse, 19*0 ; wing, 7*6 • tail, 4*7 ; tarsus, 

 0'65 ; bill from gape, 1*4. 



Bill and gape pale brown ; the former dark horny at tip ; iris 

 dark brown ; legs and feet pale fleshy brown ; claws horny. 



The Karen women extract the oil from the bodies of Night- 

 jars and use it under the belief that it stimulates fertility. 



114 bis.— Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould. 



This magnificent bird is undoubtedly more plentiful in the 

 north. I have heai'd and. seen it on the Yoonzaleen choung, 

 on the Salween river, and on the Zammee choung. In the 

 Thoungyeen valley it is more or less rare, and I have only 

 procured it or heard it along the lower portion of the Thoun- 

 gyeen river. 



In a note to p. 61 of Vol. VI., Mr Hume suggested that 

 these birds might roost in caves, and such I have now ascer- 

 tained to be the case. 



In a limestone cave in the Meplay Bast Watershed range, 1 

 found a whole colony of these birds in the day time. On my 

 entering, they darted out with prodigious swiftness and dropped 

 into the jungle outside, and although I beat backwards and 

 forwards over the very ground, I did not succeed in putting 

 up a single one. 



The dimensions, etc., recorded in the flesh of a fine male shot 

 at the mouth of the Daylaw choung, on the 30th January 

 1880, are- 

 Length, 16-0 ; expanse, 35*7; wing, 21*3 ; tail, 9*30 ; tarsus, 

 06; bill from gape, 1*6. 



Bill at tip and at the region of the nostrils horny ; remain- 

 der, with legs and feet brownish fleshy ; irides dark brown. 



