36 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



no means improbable that Horsfield's union of the races found 

 in all the localities enumerated by him will prove scientifically 

 sound, and I am not at all prepared to admit, without further 

 proof, that Horsfield's lempiji from Java is distinct from 

 Malayan and Tenasserim specimens. 



It would seem, however, that some continental ornithologists 

 assign Dr. Horsfield's name to quite a different bird; thus we 

 have from Dr. Meyer a specimen from Java labelled Scops 

 lempiji, which is magicus, pur et simple, and absolutely identical 

 with another specimen collected by Dr. Steer in Celebes. Of 

 course, any one who considers this bird lempiji will hold it 

 distinct from the Malayan form, but Dr. Horsfield, with his own 

 type specimens from Java and a Malaccan one before him, was 

 surely the best judge as to the bird that he described, and as to 

 the identity of the two forms, and if his lempiji was anything 

 of the magicus type, he could not possibly have identified it 

 with the Malaccan bird. 



Two adult females measured in the flesh : — Length, 85 ; ex- 

 panse, 23'5 ; tail from vent, 3*25 ; wing, 6'62 and 6*7 ; tarsus, 

 1*25 ; bill from gape, 10 ; weight, 5 ozs. 



In both the feet were pale bluish fleshy ; the claws very pale 

 blue; the irides dark brown. In one the cere and the greater 

 portion of the upper mandible were pinkish green, the rest of 

 the bill pale horny ; in the other the cere was very pale green ; 

 the bill dull white. 



An adult male measured : — Length, 8*2 ; expanse, 21*75 ; 

 wing, 6-2; tail, 3*12; tarsus, 1*15; bill from gape, 0"95 ; and 

 weight, 4 ozs. 



77. — Glaucidium radiatum, Tick. 



This species is stated ("Ibis," 1876, p. 343) to have been 

 recorded by Col. Tickell as " met with throughout the forest 

 portion and lower hills of Arakan, Burma and Tenasserim' 3 



It is extremely doubtful to me whether this bird really 

 occurs in Tenasserim. If it did, I think it could hardly have 

 escaped Davison and others during all these years. 



At the same time it has to be noticed that Dr. Cantor is 

 said (P. Z. S., 1854, 262) to have obtained a specimen at 

 Keddah in the Malayan Peninsula. " I hae mi doots" 



78 ter. — Glaucidium cast anopter urn, Horsf. 



As noticed in my Rough Notes, p. 413, Dr. Heifer records 

 this species from Tenasserim. 



I do not myself in the least believe in its occurring there, 

 but as it mig /it turn wp, I reproduce Horsfield's and Temminck's 

 original descriptions, which will enable local observers to 

 identify the bird if by chance it really should occur. 



