BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 5iJ 



Female.— 8-1, Myawadee, but with the upper surface greyer 

 and darker than in true albonotatus, though not nearly so dark 

 as in typical macrourus. 



Male. — 7'81,]VIergui, of the albonotatus type above and below. 



All the other specimens, some of them shot at the same time 

 and place with these three, show more or less distinctly the dark- 

 er breast, and are, without exception, somewhat greyer and dar- 

 ker above than albonotatus, and some few of them are typical 

 macrourus in every respect. 



The following are dimensions of wings : — 



Males.— 7-8 ; 7-51 ; 8-2 ; 7-5 ; 7-9 ; 8'2 ; 80 ; 8'25 ; 8-12 ; 

 7-5; 7-5 ; 7-98; 80. 



Females.— 8-2 ; 8-0 ; 7*7 ; 8*0 ; 8-1 ; 7-9 ; 7-9. 



It will be observed that the dimensions vary immensely, but 

 it is quite impossible to separate these birds into two species, 

 and curiously enough some of the biggest birds, for instance 

 the first female, is one of the closest to the typical macrourus in 

 plumao-e. On the whole, both as regards dimensions and plumage, 

 the birds, as a body, are much nearer macrourus, and they all so 

 grade into each other that I cannot consistently enter them 

 under different names. 



The following are the dimensions of a very large series re- 

 corded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 11-75 to 12-3; expanse, 23*5 to 24*75 ; tail 

 from vent, 5-8 to 6"62; wings, 7*5 to 8'25 ; tarsus, 065 to 

 075 ; bill from gape, 1*15 to 1-62 j weight, 3 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 11*6 to 12*0 ; expanse, 22-75 to 25 ; tail 

 from vent, 6'25 to 6-5 ; wing, 7'3 to 8-2; tarsus, 0-62 to 075 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'7 to 1*5 ; weight, 25 to 2' 75 ozs. 



The legs and feet are pinkish brown, dull brown, or yellowish 

 brown ; bill black ; edges of both mandibles and gape pinkish 

 brown ; irides very narrow, and so dark a brown as to be barely 

 distinguishable from the pupil. 



112.— Caprimulgus asiaticus, Lath. (l). 



Amherst. 



Must be extremely rare in, and is probably only a straggler 

 to, Tenasserim. Davison never once met with it, but Dr. 

 Armstrong obtained a single specimen near Amherst. 



114.— Caprimulgus monticolus, Frankl. (7). 



(Tonghoc, Rams.) Pahpoon ; Thatone ; Yea-boo ; Amherst. 



Confined to the northern and upper central portions of the 

 province. 



[This Night Jar also occurs in Tenasserim, but its range to 

 the south appears to extend only about as far as Amherst ; be- 

 low this I have not yet observed it. 



