2 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Gurjon-oil trees along the coast. There are, however, none 

 about there now. Davison collected vigorously there, and Dr. 

 Armstrong collected there for six months recently, aud neither 

 ever saw a specimen. There are now no Gurjon-oil trees left 

 along this coast. 



Lord Tweeddale, however, says (J. A. S. B., 1875, Extra 

 No., p. 59) that an undoubted specimen of this species was sent 

 to him from Tonghoo by Major Lloyd. 



14. — Falco severus, Horsf. 



Mr. Blyth (B. of B.,* p. 59) gives this from Tenasserim. 

 He does not say whether he has actually seen specimens thence, 

 but it very probably does occur there, though we have never 

 obtained or seen any. 



16 Us.— Poliohierax" insignis, Wald. (4). Descr. 

 S. F., III., p. 20 — P. feildeni, Hume. Pr. A. S. B., 

 May, 1872, p. 70. 



{Tonghoo, Lloyd, Rams.) Myawadee ; Lartkorjee. 



As yet only observed in Tenasserim proper, in the dry country 

 lying between Myawadee and the outer spurs of the Mooleyit 

 Range, and rare, Ramsay says, about Tonghoo. 



[The soil in the localities in which I met with this species 

 is very sandy -, white glistening quartz sand, sparsely covered 

 with deciduous trees (D'illenia) with a few stunted teak and 

 pine trees (P. longifolia) and kine grass. Here this species 

 is not very uncommon. They sit habitually on high bare 

 dead branches. Captain Feilden's account of their habits 

 (S. F., III., p. 21) is very accurate. As far as my experience 

 goes they feed entirely on locusts and other insects. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions and colors of the soft parts 

 of three fine males and a female, recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 10'2 to 104; expanse, 18'0 to 18-4; tail 

 from vent, 4*8 to 5*1; wing, 5"6 to 5'7 ; tarsus, 1*4; bill from 

 gape, 0"61 to 068 ; weight, 3 to 4 ozs. 



Fem,ale. — Length, 10-5 ; expanse, 19*1 ; tail from vent, 5 2 ; 

 wing, 5 - 8; tarsus, 1'5; bill from gape, 0"7 ; weight, 3'5 ozs. 



The legs and feet, gape, cere, lower mandible, base of 

 upper mandible and facial skin orange yellow ; rest of upper 

 mandible and tip, and a line along sides of lower mandible, aud 

 claws, dull black ; irides pale to deep brown. 



* By " B. of B." I mean to refer to the " Catalogue of Mammals and Birds of 

 Burma," by the late E. Blyth, published as an extra number, of Part II., of the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for August 1875. 



