182 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



A male measured in the flesh : — Length, 10*1 ; expanse, 

 15*3; wing, 4'8; tail, 4 - 4 ; tarsus, 0-7 ; bill from gape, 1/2. 



Bill, legs, and feet deep red ; claws horny ; irides dark 

 brown. 



448 ter.— Hemixus davisoni, Hume. 

 449.— Alcurus striatus, Blyth. 



These two species no doubt occur in the Thoungyeen valley, 

 but I have never come across them. 



451 bis.— Criniger griseiceps, Hume. 



I have shot this noisy little Bulbul in the evergreen forests 

 near Hpapoon, and again found it common throughout the 

 Thoungyeen forests. 



451 ter.— Criniger gutturalis, S. Mull. 



I have only seen this bird once, when I shot a specimen 

 at Maulmain on the 13th May 1879. It was doubtfully sexed 

 as a female, and in plumage resembles the species I have 

 entered it under, but differs in the much paler tint of the 

 upper surface and in the white of the throat descending to 

 the upper breast. 



452 ter.— Ixus finlaysoni, Strickl. 



This spesies is common alike through plains and hills, but 

 never to any great elevation. It is found more plentifully in 

 the evergreen forests of the Thoungyeen than anywhere else, 

 that I know of, in the province. 



452 dec— Iole viridescens, Blylh. 



Common everywhere, except in the dry Dillenia forests. 

 The specimens I have shot of this bird differ very much in 

 shade of color from one another. 



456.— Rubigula flaviventris, Tick. 



Common enough in the Thoungyeen forests, affecting chiefly 

 the neighbourhood of villages and clearings. The following 

 is a note of finding a nest and eggs I recorded in April 1878 : — 

 On the 14th April I happened to be putting up for the day 

 in one of the abandoned Karen houses of the old village of 

 Podeesakai at the foot of the Warmailoo toung, a spur from 

 the East Watershed range of the Meplay river. Having to 

 wait for guides, I had nothing particular to do that day, a 

 very rare event in my forest work. I devoted it to a fruitless 

 search for bears. I had returned tired and rather dispirited 

 and was moving about among the ruined houses, between 



