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of the rest of the upper and lower plumage, not scarlet or 

 peach bloom, is dark grass green ; on the lower surface, the tail 

 has the terminal one-third of all the feathers, and entire outer 

 web of outer rectrix, black ; rest golden ochre ; inner webs of 

 quills hair brown ; wing-lining and margins of inner webs of 

 quills pale yellowish buff. 



124.— Coracias affinis, McClell. (34). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Kollidoo ; Palipoon ; Khyketo ; Theinzeik ; Thatone ; Moul- 

 mein ; Pabyouk ; Amherst ; Tavoy ; Choungthauoung. 



Common throughout the more open and better cultivated 

 plains portions of the province, except in the extreme south. 



[This species is very common, but only in those parts where 

 the country is open. It avoids forest and affects principally 

 the inhabited and cultivated parts. Though plentiful in all suit- 

 able localities it is particularly abundant in some localities, 

 as for instance in the plains country lying between the Salween 

 and Sittang. In some places I have found it shy and difficult 

 to procure, in others not at all so. In habits, &c, it did not 

 differ that I could see from its Indian ally, C. indica. I never 

 saw it about JBankasoon or Malewoon, nor in any part of the 

 Malay Peninsula.— W. D.] 



126.— Eurystomus orientalis, Lin. (15). 



(Karen Sills, Earns.) Bopyin ; Choungthanoung ; Pakchan ; Bankasoon; 

 Malewoon. 



Confined to the southern portions of the province and the 

 Karen Hills, but common enough there. 



[In habits the Broad-billed Roller differs conspicuously from 

 C. affinis. During the day it, as a rule, keeps to the forest, 

 or, at any rate, within its immediate vicinity, and is not at 

 all active, remaining- seated on the topmost branches of some 

 tall dead tree for hours at a time. In the morning and even- 

 ing, but especially during the latter time, it is very active; it 

 then comes into the clearings, and from some commanding 

 perch keeps a sharp look-out for any passing insect, generally 

 seizing them on the wing, but often descending to the ground 

 to pick one up. They might almost be termed crepuscular in 

 their habits, for, when all, or nearly all, other diurnal birds have 

 gone to roost, and only Night Jars, Owls* and Bats are abroad 

 Eurystomus is still busy hawking for insects. In the morning 

 and evening they are generally easily approached and shot, but, 

 as a rule, during the day they are shy, at least this is my expe- 

 rience of them in Burma. 



* I think I have noticed some of the Dicrwri about quite as late as Eurystomi. 

 -A. O. H. 



