80 BIKDS OF TENASSERIM. 



bird has moulted ; in freshly moulted specimens it is more 

 violet, in more or less weathered specimens it is greener. 



The entire mantle is closely barred, the feathers being tipped 

 blue, preceded by a broad black band, which again is preceded 

 by a rather narrower white band ; the blue tippings also 

 vary much in shade. The primaries and winglet are deep 

 hair brown ; the secondaries similar, becoming almost black 

 towards the tertiaries, and conspicuously margined at the tips 

 with white and with three imperfect white bars on both webs; 

 the coverts, mostly black, tipped blue like the back ; the tail 

 black, with about seven transverse, somewhat slaty, blue bars, 

 (which bars become more or less white on the inner webs,) and 

 tipped with the same color as the bars. 



The breast, abdomen, and vent sullied white ; the sides fulvous 

 buff; the edge of the wing at the carpal joint rather brighter 

 fulvous buff ; the rest of the edge of the wing and the wing- 

 lining white, with more or less of a creamy tinge ; the lower 

 surface of the tail is rather pale hair brown, with numerous, 

 more or less imperfect, greyish white bands. 



In most adults the red of the sides of the neck is continued 

 as a collar round the back of the neck, but in some specimens — 

 and one of these formed the type of my amabilis — not the 

 smallest trace of this exists, and in a good many specimens 

 this collar is very much reduced in size. After carefully con- 

 sidering our large series, I believe these differences to be 

 individual and quite independent of age, as we have both 

 young and old birds of both types. 



The female has the entire upper surface and the entire sides 

 of the head and neck a rich buff, in some more golden, in some 

 more ferruginous, everywhere regularly and closely barred 

 with black ; the width of the bars and their distance apart 

 varying a great deal in different specimens, but always being 

 narrowest and closest on the head and neck, broadest on the 

 body and wings, and usually furthest apart on the tail ; the 

 primaries, their greater coverts and winglet are plain blackish 

 hair brown ; the secondaries similar, but with imperfect buffy 

 bars, corresponding with those of the back ; chin, threat, and 

 entire lower parts, including wing-lining, white, only across the 

 breast and on the sides and flanks, traces of narrow transverse 

 dusky bars. In younger birds these are very strongly marked 

 on the breast, but as the birds grow older these bars almost en- 

 tirely disappear from the breast ; still, out of thirty specimens, 

 there is not one that is entirely free from these markings. 



133.— Ceyx tridactyla, Pall. (25). 



Karope ; Yea ; Meeta Myo ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Not uncommon in the southern half of Tenasserim. 



