BIRDS OF TENASSER.IM. 



There is no appreciable difference in size, I think, between 

 the two forms ; the following are the dimensions of dry 

 wings of 



Himalayan and Fegu fy Tenasserim examples. 



Ss 3-9; 3-9 ; 377 juv; 39; Js 3-8 ; 395 ; 373; 37; 



3-8; 3-9; 394 ; 3-95 ; 395 ; 373 ; 3*8 ; 38 ; 3'95 ; 375 ; 



395; 3-92. 397 ; 3-87. 



?s 4-13; 4-3; 4 47; 4-1; 4-4; ?«4'17; 4-25 ; 4-2 ; 4-1; 



4-3; 4-18; 4-32, 425 4-15; 4-15; 4*12; 4'25 ; 



4-25; 4-2; 4-32. 



Thus it would appear that the males have the wings always 

 under, the females always over, four inches ; those of the males 

 range from 37 to 397, and those of the females from 4'1 to 

 4*47. In the general run, however, of adult males the wings 

 only vary from 3*8 to 395, and similarly in adult females the 

 usual variation is only between 4 - 2 and 4*35. 



I note that in this species the dry wing averages nearly one- 

 tenth of an inch less than the fresh one, but that this is by no 

 means a constant quantity. 



20 ter. — Microhierax fringillarius, Drop. (21), 



Meeta Myo ; near Laynah ; Pakchan ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Common in the southern portions of the province, at least 

 as high up as 3,500 feet elevation, but not further north than 

 about the 14th degree N. Lat. 



[These birds appear much bolder than their more northern 

 congener. I saw one of these little Falcons {fringillarius) 

 swoop at a Rock Thrush (Cyanocincla solitaria) that I had 

 disturbed. On another occasion, about 30 miles inland from 

 Malacca, I shot a male with a living Hirundo gutturalis (which it 

 had seized on the wing) in its talons, and from which it had 

 plucked all the back feathers as well as the secondaries and 

 terti aries.fr om both wings, and nearly all the primaries from one. 

 In the stomachs of the numerous specimens! shot, I continually 

 found the bones and feathers of sundry birds, chiefly of small 

 ones, such as Munias, &c, but on more than one occasion have 

 I found the remains of birds larger than the Falcon, which had 

 killed and eaten then. I have kept a tarsus and foot entire, 

 which 1 took from the crop of a female that I shot, and which, 

 as far as I can make out, is that of Calornis chali/bceus. At 

 Johore I shot a male H. fringillarius in a thick clump of kine 

 grass, into which it had dashed after a flock of Munia leuco- 

 gastra, but without succeeding in striking any. 



Though feeding on birds, as a rule, smaller, but undoubtedly 

 occasionally larger than itself, the chief food probably of this 

 little Falcon is insects of various sorts, dragon flies, beetles, 



