64 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



or, gape and sides of bill cobalt blue; culmen, tips of upper and 

 lower mandibles, and edges of both for about one-third of 

 their length measuring from the tip, black. 



The perfect plurnaged adult male has the entire head and 

 upper neck all round, velvet black ; the entire breast, abdomen, 

 vent, lower tail-coverts, rump and upper tail-coverts a bright 

 crimson scarlet, fading a little on the lower tail-coverts ; entire 

 back, scapulars, lower part of sides of the neck, bright brownish 

 ochraceous, paler and brighter in some specimens, darker and 

 browner in others ; central tail feathers a light bright bay, as a 

 rule, conspicuously tipped with black, but this is entirely want- 

 ing in some specimens. The next two pairs of feathers jet black ; 

 the three outer pairs very broadly tipped with white obliquely, 

 so that there is very much more white on the outer web than 

 on the inner margin of the inner web ; wings blackish brown j 

 the outer web of the first primary, the winglet, coverts, tertia- 

 ries and outer webs of secondaries very closely barred with 

 very fine white lines, preceded by still narrower lines of a 

 darker shade than the ground color of the feather. 



A younger male has the black of the head patched with 

 brown ; the rump only patched with the ochraceous of the back, 

 the whole abdomen ochraceous buff, patched here and there 

 with crimson ; many of the lines of the barring on the wings 

 ochraceous buff instead of white, and the outer webs of the 

 secondaries with much broader and more distant pale buffy bars. 



In some adult males the primaries are conspicuously mar- 

 gined on their outer webs towards their bases with white, 

 which, in some specimens, forms a continuous line, in others a 

 line of white dots. 



In the perfect plumaged female the cap is a moderately dark, 

 somewhat olivaceous, brown ; the lores and sides of the head 

 similar, but more rusty ; the chin and throat brownish rusty; 

 the extreme upper portion of the breast rusty pale buff, slightly 

 tinged with rosy crimson ; the whole of the rest of the lower 

 parts a delicate rosy crimson ; tail as in the male, but usually 

 with less white on the lateral tail feathers ; back as in the 

 male, but duller and with an olivaceous shade ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts much the same, but very strongly tinged 

 and overlaid with crimson ; the wings are as in the adult 

 males, but the barrings are everywhere pale buffy yellow, and 

 the white margins of the second and succeeding primaries are 

 generally more conspicuous. 



In the young female the head is a somewhat lighter and 

 more distinctly olivaceous brown ; the back is as in the adult, 

 but even duller ; the rump and upper tail-coverts of the same 

 bright ochraceous as the back of the adult male, without the 

 faintest tinge of crimson ; the breast, abdomen, and lower parts 



