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The feet were pale bluish brown, as were the claws,- the 

 irides bright yellow. la one the bill was pale greenish brown, 

 the cere pale bluish brown, with a green tinge on cultnen ; in 

 the other the cere was similar, the upper mandible was pale 

 brown ; the lower mandible pale horny white. 



74 nov. — Scops sagittatus, Cass. (1). Descr. S. F. 

 V., 247. 



Meetan, (Maleivoon, Oates.) 



Rare in Tenasserim and onty found about the bases of the 

 central range of hills in the southern and central portions of 

 the province. 



[I got my single specimen on the southern flanks of 

 Mooleyit near Meetan. Oates' people got a specimen at 

 Malewoon. The stomach of my specimen contained only 

 insects, chiefly moths. — W. D.] 



75 quint.— Scops lempijius, Horsf. (6). 



{Karen Rills, Rams.) Pahpoon; Tavoy ; Pabyin; Mergui ; Tenasserim Town ; 

 Bankasoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the better-wooded por- 

 tions of the province. 



[This is another species of which I know nothing, it being 

 a bird one has no opportunities of observing. It may be pretty 

 common in well wooded-localities throughout the province, 

 but it is never seen by day aud is very difficult to procure.—- 

 W. D.] 



Our Tenasserim specimens are, when a series is compared, not 

 to be separated from Malaccan ones; they are clearly lempiji of 

 Mr. Sharpens Catalogue characterized by the completely un- 

 feathered toes, the feathering never descending as far on the 

 outer toe, aud the outer side of the middle toe, as it does in 

 lettia, which, otherwise in some of its phases, very closely 

 resembles it. Both are characterized by the broad pale buff 

 or ochraceous half collar. 



The Marquis of Tweeddale observes (Birds of Burma, 

 J. A. S. B., 1875, 65) that Malaccan individuals are distinct from 

 true S. lempiji, Horsf., which is from Java. I observe, how- 

 ever, that Horsfield, in his Catalogue, I., 71, united Javan, 

 Sumatran, Malaccan, Tenasserim, Nepal and Assamese birds. 



The Nepal and Assamese birds are of course lettia; and 

 when a large series of both forms are examined, many specimens 

 are so extremely close that the two species can only be 

 separated by a reference to the amount of feathering of the 

 toes, and birds occur in Lower Bengal and Upper Burma which 

 are quite intermediate between the two, so that I think it by 



