52 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM, 



Females. — Length, 6"05 to 6*6; expanse, 1225 to 13-25; tail, 

 3-05 to 3*4 ; wing, 4-82 to 5'25; tarsus, 0"25 to 03; bill 

 from gape, 0-65 to 0*7 ; weight, 065 to 075 oz. 



Legs and feet purplish pink ; bill black ; irides dark brown. 



A narrow frontal band continued over the eyes, and along 

 the margin of the eye tufts, chin, margin of the throat, and 

 long moustachal plumes, snow white; lores black; posterior 

 portion of cheeks and ear-coverts bright chestnut in the male, 

 unicolorous with crown in female ; forehead, crown, occiput, a 

 band behind the ear-coverts, upper throat and sides of lower 

 throat, wing-coverts, and outer margins of quills deep glossy 

 steel blue ; on the nape, a greener metallic band ; a trace of the 

 same on the sides of the neck, and at the junction of the wing 

 with the body. The rest of the back, sides of the neck, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, breast and abdomen, glossy metallic 

 bronze ; lower tail-coverts pure white ; so are the short 

 tertiaries ; wing-lining glossy blackish blue ; inner webs of 

 quills deep brown ; tail, outer feathers brown, paler on the outer 

 webs ; rest of tail feathers blackish brown with a greenish blue 

 gloss. There is also sometimes a greenish gloss on the tips of 

 the secondaries, and all but the earlier primaries. Sometimes 

 the lower abdomen is much more drab-colored and less metal- 

 lic, and the feathers about the vent as well as the lower tail- 

 coverts are white. The shafts of the tail feathers on their 

 lower surface are pure white ; those of the quills black or 

 brown. 



104 ter.— Dendrochelidon longipennis, Bafin. (16). 



Mergui ; Hankachin j Pakchan ; Bakasoon; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southern portions of the province. 



[This species extends further north than the last, for I have 

 obtained it at Mergui ; it may extend further north still, but 

 not much further, as I failed to notice it at Tavoy or its neigh- 

 bourhood. Its habits are the same as that of the last and of 

 J), coronatus ; it frequents the same situations, and like them 

 seems to avoid grass land. Both species are, I believe, perma- 

 nent residents in Southern Tenasserim. — W. D.] 



Unfortunately only one specimen, a female, was measured 

 in the flesh. Her dimensions were : — 



Length, 7'7; expanse, 1672 ; tail, 3*6 ; wing, 6'8 ; tarsus, 

 0*83 ; bill from gape, 0'75 ; weight, 1-5 ozs. ; but they run 

 up to fully 8 inches in length, with a wing of 7*0. 



Lores black; forehead and frontal crest, crown, occiput, and 

 wing- coverts, nape, sides of neck and interscapulary region, 

 metallic green ; all but the three latter, which have a more 

 bronzy lustre usually, but not invariably, more' or less streaked 



