94 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



■wherever there is a clear white spot, no matter how small, 

 I have entered that feather as white marked ; when, instead 

 of a clear white spot, there is merely an albescent patch, I 

 have entered it as u a trace ": — 



Number of pairs of white marked rectrices in tails of fol- 

 lowing specimens : — 



Two days' march north of Lemyne. — Female 5. 



Lemyne. — Male 5 ; bands on first four very broad ; abdomen 

 and lower tail-coverts profusely mottled with bright orange. 



Om-a-gwen. — Male 3. 



Tavoy. — Male 4 ; female 5 ; male 3 ; male 1 . 



Mergai. — Male 5 ; male 5-4* ; male 3, trace on fourth ; 

 male 4; female 4; female 3; male 5; female 4; female 5; 

 female 2, trace on third ; female 5 ; female 4 ; female 4. 



Tenasserim Town. — Female 3 ; male 3-4. 



Coast 80 miles south of Mergui. — Female 5. 



Bopyin. — Female 5. 



Malewoon. — Female 4 ; female 4. 



Banhasoon. — Male 3 ; female 3 ; male 4 ; female 4 ; male 5 ; 

 female 4-5 ; female 4 ; male 5. 



Pakchan. — Female 4. 



Malacca.— t? 2; ? 2; female 3; ? 3; ? 4; ? 3; ? 3; 

 ? 2 ; ? 2; ? 3 ; ? 2, trace on third ; ? 3 ; ? 4>, trace on fifth ; 

 ? 4, and 3 middle pairs on one side white tipped ; ? 3, and 

 trace on fourth. 



Nealys. — Female 4; male 2; male 3; female 2-3; male 

 3-4 ; male 4. 



Pulo Seban. — Female 2 ; ? 4 ; male 2 ; male 2 ; female 4 ; 

 male 4 ; female 3 ; female 3 ; male 3 ; male 3 ; male 3 ; 

 female 4 ; female 3 ; female 4. 



Kurroo. — Female 4; male 4 ; female 2-3 ; male 3. 



Chochong. — Male 1 ; female 3 ; male 3 ; female 2, trace on 

 third ; male 4 ; male 3. 



Singapore. — Female 2, trace on third. 



It will be observed that the number of pairs of rectrices, 

 more or less marked with white, varies in Tenasserim from 

 one to five, and in the southern portion of the Malay Peninsula 

 from one to four. Moreover the amount or breadth of the 

 white varies extremely. In some specimens the marks are all 

 great broad bands, in others all small spots, most generally 

 the markings are largest on the outermost, and decrease on 

 each succeeding rectrix. Not only this, but in several speci- 

 mens more feathers are white spotted on one side than the 

 other, and this in quite perfect tails. 



* i.e., five feathers white marked on one side of the tail ; four only on the other. 

 f Specimens not sexed were purchased. 



