76 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



A young male measured : — 



Length, 7'5 ; expanse, 13-75 j tail from vent, 112 ; wing, 3'5 ; 

 tarsus,, 0'62 ; bill from gape, 175 ; weight, 2 ozs. 



In this the irides were bluish grey ; the legs and feet dark 

 red brown ; soles pale* red ; bill dark brown, except at the extreme 

 tip of lower mandible for about 025 from tip ; the sides and 

 angle of gonys, the gape, and one-third of upper mandible 

 from tip gradually coming to a point on ridge of culrnen, 

 which were a very pale yellowish orange. 



131 bis.— Halcyon* concreta, Tem. (7). 



Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined in Tenasserim to the immediate neighbourhood of 

 the estuary and river which form its southern boundary. 



[I only saw and obtained this species in the extreme south 

 of Tenasserim at Malewoon and Bankasoon. The first speci- 

 men I obtained was given to me by Mr. Hough, who shot it in 

 the forest at Malewoon. Subsequently I myself shot a couple 

 more, both females, in the heart of the dense forest at Banka- 

 soon, and on two occasions I saw, but did not secui'e it, and 

 subsequently I obtained four more all in deep forest. The species 

 is evidently rare, and the Pakchan seems to be its northern 

 limit. This is not a water Kingfisher at all, but feeds on the 

 ground, almost exclusively on lizards and the large wood-lice 

 so common in these damp woods. It is shy and difficult of 

 approach, and when disturbed it flies off with a sort of low 

 chuckle.— W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c., recorded in the flesh : — 

 Male. — Length, 9'4 ; expanse, 16'3 ; tail from vent, 2*4 ; wing, 

 4-4; tarsus, 0*75; bill from gape, 2*4; weight, 3 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 9"62 to9'82; expanse, 16 to 17; tail, 2'62to 

 2-75 ; wing, 4*62 to 5 ; tarsus, 0'65 to 0"7 ; bill from gape, 23 

 to 2*4 ; weight, 3 to 3*5 ozs. 



Legs, feet, and claws, chrome yellow, sometimes with a dingy 

 greenish tinge ; irides deep brown ; lower mandible, gape, 

 and a narrower or broader stripe on the upper mandible paral- 

 lel to commissure from base to point, bright yellow to orange 

 chrome yellow ; eyelids of the same color ; rest of upper man- 

 dible, dull black. 



My friend, Mr. Sharpe, was not correctly informed about this 

 species, and was apparently not aware that the adults of the 

 two sexes differed, as indeed do the young. The young male 

 being very like the old one, and the young female close to the 

 old females. 



* I rather doubt whether the small sub-group to which this species belongs, should 

 not be generically separated. If so it would stand as Actenoides, Hombr. and Jacq. 



