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foot of the bills. I have never myself seen or shot it sitting over 

 any running stream or pool after the manner of other 

 Kingfishers ; in fact it seems to me to avoid the vicinity of water 

 altogether, and to live entirely on lizards, land insects, worms, 

 &c. It is a very stupid bird, and will sit quite quietly within 

 three feet of you, and let you load your gun if it happens to 

 be empty. 



A pair measured in the flesh : — 



Male (shot 24th February 1880 on the Maplay choung) :— . 

 Length, 9*2 ; expanse, 12'9; wing. 3*43 ; tail from vent, 3*3; 

 tarsus, 0*6 ; bill from gape, 2'0. 



Bill dark vermilion red ; gape and eyelids lighter ; legs and 

 feet ochraceous pink ; irides ashy grey. 



Female (shot 22nd November 1879 on the Maigla choung, 

 head watei's of the Thoungyeen) : — Length, 95 ; expanse, 12'6* j 

 wing, 3'48 ; tail from vent, 3*2 ; tarsus, - 54 ; bill from 

 gape, 2-1. 



Bill vermilion red ; irides yellowish grey ; legs and feet 

 ochraceous pink. 



133.— Ceyx tridactyla, Pall. 



This little living gem is excessively rare in the Thoungyeen 

 valley, but along the western foot of the Dawna range it 

 eeems fairly plentiful in the evergreen forests. 



A female shot on the 12th August 1879, at Thoung-cheein- 

 Bakan on the Kaukarit and Meeawucldy road measured in the 

 flesh :— 



Length, 5*4; expanse, 8*5; wing, 2*38; tail from vent, 

 1'04 ; tarsus, 0'4 ; bill from gape, 1*63. 



Bill, legs, feet, and claws orange, the first lightening to a pale 

 yellow at tip ; irides dark brown. 



134.— Alcedo bengalensis, Gm. 



Here and there through the Thoungyeen valley this bird 

 occurs, but it is not at all plentiful. 



Hale (shot 31st January 1880 on the Thoungyeen rivei*, 

 measured in the flesh): — Length, 6'57 ; expanse, 10 - 35 ; wiug, 

 2-82 ; tail from vent, 1*4; tarsus, 0*3 ; bill from gape, 1*8. 



Bill above horny, below and at gape light vermilion ; legs 

 and feet a darker shade of vermilion ; irides brown ; claws 

 horny. 



Female (shot 1 9th September 1877 on the Oukree choung):— 

 Length, 6'57; expanse, 100 ; wing, 2'68; tail from vent, 1*4; 

 tarsus, 0*34; bill from gape, 182. 



