180 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



A fine pair measured in the flesh : — 



Male. — Length, 5 - ; expanse, 6*8; wing, 2 25 ; tail, 1*75; 

 tarsus, 073 ; bill from gape, 0'57. 



Bill bluish plumbeous ; irides crimson ; legs, feet, and claws 

 fleshy yellow. 



Female. — Length, 485 ; expanse, 65 ; wing, 21 ; tail, 1*7 ; 

 tarsus, 0'73 ; bill from gape, 0*57. Colors of the soft parts as 

 in'the male. 



The female differs from the male in having the rufous of the 

 forehead and head paler. 



395.— Mixornis rubricapillus, Tick, 



A very common bird throughout the province. In the 

 Thoungyeen valley it seems to affect bamboo jungle and open 

 forest with grassy undergrowth. I have never seen it in 

 evergreen or dry Lillenia forests. 



399.— Pellorneum subochraceum, Swinh. 



As common as the last. I can add nothing to Mr. Davison's 

 accouut of it, S. F., Vol. VI. 



403.— Pomatorhhms leucogaster, Gould. 



A rare bird. I have only shot oue specimen at the head- 

 waters of the Thoungyeen. 



403 Us.— Pomatorhinus olivaceus, Blyth. 



This is the Pomatorhinus of the Thoungyeen valley being 

 found from the sources to the mouth of that river. A note 

 recorded two years ago of a nest that I found is given below : — 

 4th March. — Having to go over the ground along the southern 

 boundary of the proposed Meplay reserve, I had to cat my 

 way though dense Wahgoke bamboo (Bambusa sp. ?), a nasty, 

 bending, hard bamboo, to go through a long belt of which 

 is hard work. To make it worse in this case several clumps 

 had been burnt by fire and blown down. As I was slowly 

 progressing along, bent almost double, out of a little hollow 

 at my feet, a bird flew out with a suddenness that nearly 

 knocked me down. I looked into the hollow, and there un- 

 der the ledge of the sheltering bank was a nest of dry bamboo 

 leaves lined with strips of the same shredded fine. It was 

 cup-shaped, loosely made, about \\ inches in diameter, and the 

 same in depth, containing three pure white eggs perfectly fresh ; 

 (measured afterwards they proved respectively, 0'98"x0-7r, 

 0-99" x 073", and 0-99' ; x0'73") ; gun in hand I watched, 

 hidino- myself behind a clump of bamboos about thirty ywcd<\ 

 off. For an hour I watched, but the bird did not retun , 



