38 BIRDS OF TENASSER1M. 



bamboo jungle. During- the day it generally rests on a branch 

 or in a clump of bamboos. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions, &c, of one male and five 

 females : — 



Male. — Length, 8*75 ; expanse, 200 ; tail from vent, 35 ; 

 wing, b'6; tarsus , 0"95 ; bill from gape, 09 ; weight, 5 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 9 to 9'5 ; expanse, 20'25 to 21 '25 ; tail 

 from vent, 3*25 to 3 - 82 ; wing, 5 '75 to 6'0; tarsus, 0'8 to TO; 

 bill from gape, 0"82 to 09. 



Legs and feet pale green ; claws whitish at base, horny 

 brown towards tip ; bill pale green ; cere darker green; irides 

 bright yellow. 



79 bis. — Glaucidium ivhitleyi, Bly. 



This species is given by Blyth (B. of B., p. 66) as common in 

 Tenasserim, but merely as a conjecture based on a difference in 

 the habits of the Burmese and Himalayan Barred Owlets. 



Mr. Blyth originally described this species from a Japanese 

 specimen. He said : — 



" The tail has only six narrow white bars, one terminal, 

 and another of them at the extreme bases of the feathers, so 

 that four only remain to constitute the conspicuous barring 

 of the rectrices ; the markings of the wing primaries and 

 secondaries are also fewer and further apart than in the com- 

 mon Himalayan bird.''' 



In the first place I confess that, unless other distinctions 

 besides those pointed out exist, I do not in the least believe 

 in the distinctness of this supposed species, it not being a fact 

 (as I have already pointed out S. F., III., 40,) that Himalay- 

 an specimens always have seven bars on the tail. 



In the second place if other distinctions do exist (and Mr. 

 Sharpe, Cat. II, 222, seems to consider the species distinct, 

 though he too I think rests mainly on the number of bars on 

 the tail), and whitleyiis really a good species, then certainly not 

 one of the very fair series preserved by us from all the north- 

 ern parts of Tenasserim (it only extends a little further 

 south than Tavoy) belong to this species ; all are inseparable 

 from the Himalayan cuculoides. 



The following are the number of bars on the centre tail 

 feathers of Tenasserim and Himalayan, &c, specimens, count- 

 ing the white tip as one bar, and also reckoning the bar, or 

 sometimes bars, hidden more or less completely by the upper 

 tail coverts: — 



Tenasserim — 



Kollidoo, male, 6 ; Wimpong, male, 6 ; Ivollidoo, male, 6; 

 Houngthraw River, female, 8 ; Thatone, female, 7 ; Myawadee, 

 male, 6 ; and no white tip to tail. 



