88 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



The quite young- birds of both sexes are like the female 

 above, but duller colored ; have only very thin loral tufts ; the 

 chin and throat very scantily feathered with greyish white 

 feathers ; the breast very pale green, and the rest of the 

 lower parts except the tips of the lower tail-coverts, greyish 

 white, with faint green tinges here and there. 



Later, in the males the black ear-coverts begin to appear ; 

 the loral plumes increase in size ; then the black spots begin 

 to appear on the coverts ; the yellow eye line appears, and at 

 the same time the black frontal patches ; the gloss developes 

 more and more, first on the upper, and then on the upper and 

 lower surfaces, and last of all the wing -lining and the quills 

 become black. 



138.— Psarisomus dalhousise, Jamieson. (11). 



(Karen, Hills, at BfiOOft., Rams.) Moolejit ; Meetan. 



Only observed in Tenasserim proper in the low hills around, 

 and on Mooleyit itself, to an elevation of 6,000 feet, but re- 

 appearing further north in the continuation of the same 

 range. 



[In habits this species greatly resembles the other Broad- 

 bills, going about, however, usually in pairs. They feed en- 

 tirely on insects, specially the green tree grasshoppers. They 

 continually seize insects on the wing, bat do not, as a rule, 

 return to the same perch to devour their prey. They don't 

 seem to move about the branches; they make short flights, and 

 where they alight, there they, as it were, squat with their heads 

 tucked in. 



Unlike most of the other Broadbills, which are found in 

 thin tree jungle, gardens, and even in bamboo jungle, 1 have 

 always met with these exclusively in the thick forest, often in 

 dark ravines. Though by no means shy, they are rather more 

 alert to danger than the other Broadbills. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions and colors of soft parts record- 

 ed from the fresh bird. The sexes do not appear to vary in 

 size : — 



Length, 106 to 109; expanse, 12-8 to 13 - 5 ; tail from vent, 

 4-9 to 5-35 ; wing, 4'05 to 4:15; tarsus, TO to 1-12; bill from 

 gape, 1-2 to 1-3; weight, 2*2 to 2'5 oz. 



The legs and feet are pale green or bluish green ; claws black. 

 In the male the upper mandible is pale green, bluish at tip and 

 edges ; the lower mandible is greenish or orange yellow, bluish 

 at tip : the irides are salmon pink, darkening to deep grey on the 

 outer edge, sometimes pinkish grey, darker on the outer edge. 



In the female, the bill was greenish yellow ; both mandibles 

 bluish at tip and base. 



