BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



inclined to believe that the females of the two species (or races) 

 will be found to differ only in that those of rutilus, as a body, 

 have somewhat less crimson on the rump than those of 

 duvaucelli. 



116.— Harpactes hodgsoni, Gould. (5 ) 



(Karennee, at&fiOOft., Earns.) Pine forests, Salween 5 Kyouknjat ; Pahpoon j 

 Mooleyifc. 



Confined to the hill forests of the northern and central 

 portions of the province, and even there it is not common. 



Our specimens from various parts of the Tenasserim Hills 

 from Mooleyit to Pahpoon are apparently precisely identical 

 with specimens from Sikkim, and so are specimens from 

 Tipperah, the Nepal Terai, the Arrakan Hills, the eastern and 

 western Pegu Hills, and Thayetmyo, and I confess that I do 

 not at present believe in H. erythroeephalus, Gould, as a distinct 

 species. 



The following are the dimensions and the colors of the soft 

 parts of three very fine Tenasserim specimens, one male and 

 two females : — 



Male. — Length, 13*5 ; expanse, 17*0; tail, 7"5 ; wing, 5*7 ; 

 tarsus, 0-6 ; bill from gape, 1*0. 



The legs and feet were dark fleshy pink, tinged blue ; the 

 irides light brown ; orbital skin, gape, and lower mandible to 

 angle of gonys, and upper mandible to P25 inch beyond the 

 nostril, deep smalt, tinged purple ; rest of bill blackish horny. 



Females. — Length, 1325 to 13*9 ; expanse, 17*5 to 18*25 ; tail, 

 7*4 to 8'2 ; wing, 5*62 to 605 ; tarsus, 0*6 to - 65 ; bill from 

 gape, T05 to 1*1 j weight, 2 -5 oz. 



In one female the legs and feet were dark brownish pink ; 

 the irides pale clear red ; orbital skin and gape a clear light 

 purple, bluer from the gape, and the color gradually shading 

 to a cobalt blue ; the terminal portion of both mandibles 

 blackish horny. 



Gould figures (B. of As., XVII., PI. 1.) the male with the 

 iris red, the female with the iris brown ; most unfortunately we 

 neglected to record the colors of the irides in more than two 

 specimens, and in these it was the male that had the brown 

 irides and the female that had the red. 



116 t er. —Harpactes oreskios, Tern. (58.) Descr. 

 S. F., III., 48. 



{Karen Sills, Earns.) Kyouk-nyat ; Dargwin ; Pahpoon ; Thatone ; Wimpong ; 

 Meetan ; Amherst ; Lemyne ; Yea ; Omagwen ; Meeta Myo ; Tavoy ; Mergui ; 

 Pakeban ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon ; Yictoria Point. 



Generally distributed throughout the province up to eleva- 

 tions not exceeding 4,000 feet. 



