164 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSER1M 



is almost base. They continually thus call to and reply to each 

 other, and it has been by following these calls that I have pro- 

 cured most of my specimens. 



172.— Gecinus occipitalis, Vig. 



I have found this species all over the country. It breeds alike 

 in the north and in the south-west in the Thoungyeen valley 

 in April. On the 28th of that month I took five eggs out of 

 a dried Tbitpouk tree (Tretranelles nudiflora), on the Yoonza- 

 leen choung. 



The eggs were of the usual, glossy white, Woodpecker type. 



173.— Chrysophlegma fiavmucha, Gould. 



Mr. Davison has already given this bird from the Thoung- 

 yeen valley. I found it fairly common there. 



174.— Chrysophlegma chlorolophus, Vieill. 



The same remark will apply to this as to the latter. It is 

 even more abundant than flavinucha ; and a wonderfully silent 

 bird. I have never heard its note to my knowledge. 



177 Ms.— Gecinulus viridis, Blyth. 



Along nearly the whole length of the Thoungyeen an almost 

 uninterrupted belt of bamboo lines both banks, in which this 

 little Woodpecker is fairly common. 



A male shot 20th September 1879, near the mouth of the 

 Thablooko choung, Thoungyeen river, measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 10*07 ; expanse, 16*5 ; wing, 5*12 ; tail from vent, 

 3*4; tarsus, 1*0; bill from gape, 1*17. 



Bill translucent white, suffused with blue, darker at base, 

 lighter at tip ; irides nut brown ; legs and feet grass green ; 

 claws horny. 



178.— Micropternus phaeoceps, Blyth. 



A fairly common bird in the Thoungyeen jungles. I remem- 

 ber seeing one hard at work boring a hole in an ant's nest, 

 while the ants swarmed over him. He, however, apparently 

 took little or no notice of them. 



184.— Tiga javanensis, Ljungh. 



The commonest of common Woodpeckers in the Thoungyeen 

 as elsewhere over the couutry. I subjoin a note of a nest and 

 eggs I found. It was the 22nd March 1879, and a frightfully 

 hot day. I was returning to camp, and my road lay through 

 some dry, already burnt Eng (Dipt erocar pus) jungle. Passing 

 close to a small stunted Pyma> tree (Lagerstrcemia flos-regince), 



