174 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TBNASSERIM 



up in the Meplay choung, aucl near Koosaik, the old road cross- 

 ing over to Myneloongyee. 



285. — Dissemurus paradiseus, Lin. 



This species is very common all over the country. In the 

 Thoungyeen valley it chiefly affects bamboo forests. 



There is a point in the succession of plumage of this bird that 

 I have never seen alluded to, and that is, that on the first 

 growth of the two long tail feathers the shafts of these are 

 webbed on both sides the whole way down, broader on the in- 

 side ; only for about an inch above the racket does the web 

 narrow. It is not till the second moult that the tail assumes 

 the adult form. 



286.— Ohibia hottentotta, Lin. 



During the breeding season in the end of March and in 

 April, I saw a great number of nests round and about Meea- 

 wuddy; but all inaccessible, as they were invariably built 

 out at the very end of the thinnest branches of Eng (Diptero- 

 carpus) Teak, Thingan (Hopea odorata), and other trees. 



Except during those two months, I have not seen the bird 

 plentiful anywhere. 



290. — Hypothymis azurea, Bodd. 



Common all through the Thoungyeen valley. 



291. — Leucocerca albicollis, Vieill. 



All through the Thoungyeen vallej'- at elevations above 1,500 

 feet, in dense evergreen jungle, this species is to be found, but 

 even then scarce. 



A female, I shot in the Meplay East Watershed range, mea- 

 sured in the flesh: — Length, 7'4 ; expanse, 8*9; wing, 2'9; 

 tail, 3-88 ; tarsus, 0'74 ; bill from gape, 072. 



Bill, legs, feet, and claws black ; irides dark brown. 



? 292.— Leucocerca aureola ? Vieill. 



Two specimens that I shot, I refer, with great hesitation,* to 

 the above bird. They were procured in dry Eng forest in the 

 Thoungyeen valley. 



* The five species of Leucocerca that wo obtain are easily separable. — ■ 

 (1.) L. aureola has a very broad -white supercilium, more or less covering the 

 entire forehead and extending to the nape. The throat is black, more or less mottled 

 with white. The breast and abdomen pure white. There are two rows of conspi- 

 cuous triangular white spots on tips ot the wing-coverts. 



(2.) L. albicollis has a conspicuous, though narrow, white supercilium not extend- 

 ing quite to the forehead in front or backwards much behind the eye. It has more or 

 less of the throat white, and the breast and abdomen dusky. 



