92 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



nostril, bright smalt blue ; rest of upper mandible bright green ; 

 edge of both mandibles along commissure black. Of course the 

 blue and green shade into each other; sometimes the terminal 

 portion of the lower mandible is also green. 



The adult male has the whole of the upper part of the head 

 and whole upper plumage, (except the white collar) where not 

 yellow, (except also the primaries, which are hair brown) the 

 chin, cheeks, lores, and upper half of throat and a broad pec- 

 toral band, black; a fine line under the eyes, the basal portion 

 of the throat, the sides of the neck including the terminal por- 

 tion of the ear-coverts, aud a narrow nuchal collar, white ; the 

 middle of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the outer 

 and longer scapulars, and a patch on the outer webs of all the 

 secondaries and tertiaries, lower tail-coverts, flanks, and vent 

 feathers, bright pale yellow ; breast pale vinous pink ; abdomen 

 rather darker colored, mingled with yellow towards the flanks 

 and vent; tibial plumes black; wing.lining, except some of the 

 primary lower coverts, pale yellow. All the feathers of the 

 tail with a white or yellowish white sub terminal spot on the 

 inner web, extending* on the outer tail feathers over both 

 webs. 



The female only differs in the pectoral band being 1 wanting 

 in the middle of the breast. 



The nestling has the black replaced by sooty brown ; the 

 yellow as in the adult, but much paler, and with the median 

 coverts tipped with yellow, as are the frontal feathers, and a 

 narrow pale yellow supercilium from the nostrils over 

 lores and anterior two-thirds of eyes ; the lores alone are jet 

 black ; there is no pectoral band ; the chin and throat are 

 white, only a blackish patch at each side of the throat below 

 the eyes ; the breast and sides are brownish grey, a little 

 streaked with greyish white; the feathers faintly tipped yellowish 

 whitish, the tippings preceded by a slightly darker hair line ; 

 the abdomen and flanks are greyish white, white, and very pale 

 yellow streakily intermingled. 



139 quint.— Oymborhynchus macrorhynchus, Gm. 

 (39). 



Lemyne ; Yea ; Om-a-gwen ; Tavoy ; Mergui ; Tenasserim Town ; Choulai 

 Creek; Bopyin; Pakchan ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southern half of the province. 



[The Common Rouge-et-noir Bird is not uncommon between 

 Yea and Tavoy, and is excessively abundant further south. In 

 its habits, food, &c, it resembles the two foregoing species, but 

 unlike them is constantly found in gardens, and even in trees 

 growing in aud about villages. I found it especially abundant 



