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breast and abdomen dull reddish vinous purple ; tibial plumes 

 blackish dusky ; feathers of the flanks fringed yellowish or 

 brownish orange ; lower tail-coverts pale brownish vinous, more 

 or less fringed with yellow — in some specimens much suffused 

 with this color ; edge of the wing, axillaries, and the greater 

 part of the wing-lining, pale bright yellow; greater and median 

 primary lower coverts black or blackish ; inner margins of 

 quills towards their bases white or fulvous white; wings, back, 

 rump, tail, upper tail-coverts, (except terminal portions of pri- 

 maries, which are hair brown) mingled black and bright yellow; 

 the middle of the back and rump, and the tips of the tail- 

 coverts, and the longer and outer scapulars, and a broad patch 

 on the outer webs of all the secondaries and tertiaries being 

 of this latter color. All the feathers of the tail, except the 

 central ones, with a broad white or yellowish or fulvous white 

 subterrninal patch, largest and extending over the whole of 

 both webs in the outermost feathers, smallest and confined 

 to the inner web on the feathers next the centre. Some 

 specimens, I believe younger ones, have the abdomen a great 

 deal mottled with a dull reddish orange. 



The female only differs from the male in wanting the black 

 pectoral band — a curious fact, seeing that in Serilophus lunatus 

 it is the females that have the pectoral band, the males want 

 it {vide S. F., III., p. 53.) We have not yet obtained nestlings. 



139 ter A.— Eurylsemus ochromelas, Baffl. (19). 



Yea ; Laynali ; Pakchan ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southern half of the province. 



[This species is comparatively rare in Tenasserim. It occurs 

 apparently only from just north of Yea to the Pakchan, but is 

 nowhere common. In habits it resembles the other Broadbills, 

 and like the rest is chiefly insectivorous. I have often 

 shot these birds, while catching insects on the wing, exactly 

 after the manner of a Drongo or Flycatcher. Its note is like 

 that oijavanicus, but shriller and finer drawn. They are like 

 the rest easy to shoot when you can see them, but I have often 

 sat several minutes under a tree on which one was calling 

 without being able to detect it. — W. D.] 



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



Males.— Length, 6'25 to 7 ; expanse, 10-12 to 11 ; tail, 2"25 

 to 2-37; wing, 3'1 to 3-35 ; tarsus, 0'7 to 0'83 ; bill from gape, 

 0-95 to 1-12; weight, 1*25 to 1-61. 



Females. — Length, 6*25 to 6-75 ; expanse, 10 to 10*75 ; tail, 

 2-12 to 2-9 ; wing, 3*12 to 337 ; tarsus, 0'76 to 0-8 ; bill from 

 gape, 1*05 to 1*2. 



Legs and feet dark but fleshy pink; claws brown ; irides bright 

 yellow; lower mandible and upper mandible to 025 beyond 



