AND SPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THOUNGYEEN VALLEY. 165 



a Woodpecker flew out of a hole on the side nearest to me, 

 nearly hitting my face as it flew, and perched, or rather stuck 

 on, as they do, to a tree not far off". Keeping my eye on her, 

 I got one of the peons with me to widen the hole, and see 

 whether there were any eggs. In a few moments he announc- 

 ed three. I then shot the bird, which proved to be the above- 

 mentioned Woodpecker, a female. The three eggs were trans- 

 lucent whity pink, and rather glossy. Laid on the decayed 

 wood in a natural hollow, a passage to which the bird had cut 

 from the outside, at only four feet above the ground ; it was a 

 wonder that when the jungle was fired they hadn't been 

 roasted. 



186.— Vivia innominata, Burt. 



I procured one specimen of this species not hitherto, at least 

 since Blyth's time, obtained in Tenasseriuj. I shot it on the 

 10th March, at the sources of the Day law choung, Thoungyeen 

 river, at an elevation of about 2,000 feet. 



The specimen, a male, measured in the flesh: — Length, 4*15 ; 

 expanse, 7"9 ; wing, 2*33 ; tail from vent, 1*3 ; tarsus, 0*51 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'62. 



Bill, upper mandible and tip of lower dark horny ; base of 

 lower dark plumbeous; irides dark brown; legs and feet 

 plumbeous ; claws horny. 



191 6w.— Megalsema virens, Bodd. 



This bird (the Chinese and not the Himalayan form) is exces- 

 sively common in the Thoungyeen valley ; its incessant cry 

 being at times quite annoying. 



A fine male measured in the flesh : — Length, 13*3 ; expanse, 

 190 ; wing, 5*78 ; tail from vent, 4*5; tarsus, 1*21; bill 

 from gape, 2*17. 



Bill and gape wax yellow ; the former whitish at the top, 

 and horny at tip ; irides dark brown ; legs and feet dirty sap 

 green ; claws horny. 



192.— Megalsema hodgsoni, Bonap. 



Mr. Davison has already given this from Meeawuddy and 

 the Thoungyeen valley. It is common all over the country, 

 but does not approach towns to the best of my belief. 



A male, shot 17th March 1880, on tho Meplay choung, 

 Thoungyeen river, has the brown markings on the throat and 

 breast, so faint as to be almost absent on the former. 



195 bis.— Megalaema davisoni, Hume. 



This Barbet, allied very closely to M. asialica, is common in 

 the Thoungyeen valley, and I have shot it on the western side 



