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dull red, lias the entire cheeks and ear-coverts blue; but as a 

 rule the females have the cheeks and ear-coverts red, traversed 

 by a broader or narrower blue band, I have unfortunately 

 only a comparatively small series from the Straits, but my 

 impression is, that with a series from Singapore to Penang, 

 such as I possess, from Burmah, India and the Andamans, it 

 would be easy to show a perfectly unbroken series of forms, 

 both as regards color of upper parts and color of the cheeks 

 and ear-coverts in the females. I am, therefore, inclined to 

 doubt the validity of beavani as a species. 



136. — Ceryle rudis, Lin. (14). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Sittang River ; Khyketo ; Theinzeik ; Megaloon ; Moulmeiu ; 

 Attaran River ; Yea-boo ; Amherst. 



Pretty common in the northern and upper central portions 

 of the province, (?) on fresh water only; not observed on the 

 sea coast. 



[This species apparently does not occur much to the south 

 of Amherst. It is found on the Sittang and Salween rivers 

 and on inland tanks, &c. I found it very numerous on a large 

 tank, a short distance from the hot springs of Yea-boo on the 

 Attaran, and again on the fisheries on the fiat country between 

 the Salween and Sittang rivers. I also noticed a few at a small 

 tank at Pahpoou. — W. D.] 



Whatever the habits of this species in Tenasserim, it is in 

 other places by no means confined to fresh water. 



137. -Ceryle guttata, Vig. (2). 



Kollidoo. 



Only observed in the hill streams of the higher hills of 

 the northern and central portions of the province. 



[This species occurs in the hills to the north of Pahpoon. 

 I obtained two specimens, male and female, on a stream below the 

 stockade of Kollidoo, and saw it on two or three other occasions 

 in the Pahchoung Creek and on the higher portion of the 

 Younzaleen. I also met with it in the hill streams about 

 Mooleyit. The bird is rare even where it does occur. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions of a fiue adult male : — 



Length,* 16-5; expanse, 25 - 9; tail from vent, 5'0; wing, 75 ; 

 tarsus, 05; bill from gape, 3*4; weight, 9 ozs, 



* This is quite as large as a Japanese male with which I have compared it, and 

 yet not a bit larger then several Himalayan males, and is smaller than one of these 

 latter. Of course I have also several Himalayan males that are smaller; like all birds, 

 the adults vary somewhat in size. As to the supposed greater compression of the 

 beak in the Japanese bird, the single specimen of the latter, which I have examined, 



