6 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



and butterflies. I say butterflies, for, although I have never found 

 the distinguishable remains of butterflies in those I examin- 

 ed, I have no doubt that they do capture butterflies largely, and 

 of all sizes, for the nest of a pair that I found at Bankasoon 

 consisted of a pad composed entirely of insect-wings and the 

 mass of these were those of butterflies. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions and colors of the soft parts, 

 &c, of the Black-legged Falconet. 



Male. — Length, 5*75 to 6'45 ; expanse, 11*75 to 12'12; tail, 

 2 to 2-75 ; wing, 3-62 to 3*82 ; tarsus, 0*62 to 0'75 ; bill 

 from gape, 045 to 055; weight, 1" to l"5oz. 



Female. — Length, 6'4 to 67 ; expanse, 12-4 to 13'12; tail, 

 2-25 to 2-62 ; wing, 382 to 4-15 ; tarsus, 075 ; bill from gape, 

 055 to 0-6; weight, 2- to 2"5oz. 



The bill, legs and feet black ; the irides wood brown ; 

 the orbital skin plumbeous ; the eyelids black. 



Adults have a narrow frontal band, a streak from a little 

 above the posterior angle of the eye, backwards over the ear- 

 coverts, chin, throat, sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts, 

 cheeks immediately under the eye, breast, wing-lining, and 

 numerous bars on the inner webs of all the wing and lateral 

 tail feathers, white. 



The upper portion of the forehead, crown, occiput, nape, 

 and a portion of the sides of the neck behind the white 

 streak, ear-coverts, and posterior portion of cheeks, the entire 

 mantle, upper tail-coverts, central tail feathers and outer webs 

 of lateral tail feathers, glossy black, with greenish reflections ; 

 secondaries, primaries and their greater coverts and winglet, 

 blackish hair brown ; sides of the body, flanks, and hinder 

 tibial plumes, and tips of longest lower tail-coverts, also more 

 or less glossy black ; abdomen, vent, front of tibial plumes, 

 shorter lower tail-coverts, buffy white, or pale ferruginous, or 

 even in the oldest birds rather deep ferruginous. 



When these parts become this latter color, the chin and the 

 greater part of the throat are generally suffused with pale 

 ferruginous. 



In the quite young bird the bill is yellow, the frontal band 

 and the streak behind the eye are pale ferruginous ; the 

 patch below the eye and a margin round the black ear-patch 

 rather paler ferruginous buff; margin of the wing tinged with 

 the same color ; no black tip to the lower tail-coverts ; abdomen 

 very pale fawn ; feathers of the mantle very narrowly fringed 

 with sordid white ; upper tail-coverts more broadly fringed 

 with buff. 



This is a bird just out of the nest, the tail feathers still 

 showing at the extreme tips, buffy nestling down ; killed in 

 April in the latter half of the month. 



