170 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



Bill in both sexes dark horny ; edges of lower mandible 

 yellow (not seen when closed) ; irides brown ; legs, feet, and 

 claws orange yellow. 



224 .— Arachnothera longirostra, Lath. 



Very common. 



A pair from the Thoungyeen valley measure : — 



Male. — Length, 6 - l ; expanse, 8*35 ; wing, 2 , 47 ; tail, 1*63 ; 

 tarsus, 0'6 ; bill from gape, 1'52. 



Bill, upper mandible, dark horny, lower light fleshy plumbe- 

 ous ; irides nut brown ; legs and feet dark plumbeous blue ; 

 claws horny. 



Female. — Length, 5'8 ; expanse, 7 - 6; wing, 2*3; tail, 1*6 ; 

 tarsus, 0-55 ; bill from gape, 1*38. Colors of the soft parts 

 as in the male. 



225 ter. — iEthopyga cara, Sume. 



Male, (shot 12th July 1879, Napyandan choung, Salween 

 river). — Length, 4*91 ; expanse,7*l ; wing, 2'2 ; tail, 1*9; tarsus, 

 0-54 ; bill from gape, 0*75. 



Bill, upper mandible black, lower horny reddish brown ; 

 irides dark brown ; legs, feet, and claws horny brown. 



Female, (shot 26th November 1879, Bawthaloo choung, 

 Meplay, Thoungyeen river). — Length, 4*3 ; expanse, 6'3 ; wing, 

 2'0 ; tail, 1*5 ; tarsus, 0*5 ; bill from gape, 0'7. Colors of soft 

 parts as in the male. 



Sparsely distributed in the Thoungyeen valley. 



233 seoct— Chalcoparia singalensis, Gm. 

 234— Cinnyris asiatica, Lath. 



234 ten— Cinnyris flammaxillaris, Blyth. 



These three are the commonest Sun birds in the Thouugyeen 

 valley. I have found them from its sources to its mouth in 

 all sorts of jungles. 



236— Dicseum cruentatum, Lin. 



Not observed in the Thoungyeen valley. 



236 bis.-— Dicaeum trigonostigma, Scop. 



See Stray Feathers, Vol. VIII., p. 195. 



237.— Dicseum chrysorrhaeum, Tern. 



I shot one specimen of this in the Sinzaway, a male, which 

 measured in the flesh : — Length, 4'1 ; expanse, 7*5 ; wing, 2*48 .; 

 tail, 1-1 j tarsus, 0*53; bill from gape, 052. 



