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Bill dark horny brown, dashed reddish white at base of 

 lower mandible ; gape, legs and feet coral red ; irides brown ; 

 claws horny. 



135 Ms.— Alcedo nigricans, Bly. 



I am certain that in the rocky choungs flowing into the 

 Thoungyeen from the east flank of the Meplay East Watershed 

 range, I have more than once come across this Kingfisher, but 

 owing to its extreme wariness I have hitherto failed to secure 

 any specimens. 



136.— Ceryle rudis, Lin. 



In August 1879 going up the Houndraw river, I was 

 astonished at the immense numbers of this species that had 

 collected on some willows on the bank, just below the Forest 

 rest house at Kyaen ; there must have been fully a hundred of 

 them. For what purpose they had assembled I could not 

 make out. Along the Thoungyeen it is by no means uncom- 

 mon, but I have not seen it more than occasionally up any of 

 the tributary streams. 



137.— Ceryle guttata, Vig. 



I have nothing further to add to my former note concerning 

 this species (S. F.. Vol. VIII., p. 193,) except that since writing 

 it I again saw a few in the same locality mentioned in it. 



138. — Psarisomus dalhousise, Jam. 



I have found this Broadbill common along both sides of the 

 Dawna range, and on the higher spurs running off it. 



A pair, shot on the 1st February 1880, at the sources of the 

 Quaymoo choung, a small feeder of the Thoungyeen, entering 

 a little below the rapids of Kamankla, measured in the flesh 

 as follows : — 



Male. — Length, 11*1 ; expanse, 13*7 ; wing, 4*02 ; tail from 

 vent, 5*1 ; tarsus, 1*13; bill from gape, 1*4. 



Bill brownish yellow, bluish at gape and at tip ; irides 

 brown ; legs and feet light green ; claws horny. 



Female. — Length, 11*00; expanse, 13*8; wing, 4*0; tail 

 from vent, 5*2; tarsus, 1*05; bill from gape, 1*3. 



Bill bluish green, tinged with brownish yellow, tip whitish ; 

 irides brown ; legs and feet light green ; claws horny. 



A young female, shot on the 10th September at the head 

 waters of the Thoungyeen, measured : — 



Length, 9*15 ; expanse, 13*20 ; wing, 3*98; tail from vent, 

 3*20; tarsus, 1*0; bill from gape, 1*4. 



