96 BIRDS OF TENASSEEIM. 



would be this and not the Malayan form in my opinion that 

 would require a new name. 



The following are dimensions and colors of the soft parts 

 recorded in the flesh from a number of Tenasserim speci- 

 mens : — 



Males.— Length, 9'0 to 975 ; expanse, 12-82 to 13-25; tail, 

 3-25 to 3-82; wing, 4 to 4*1; tarsus, 0-9 to 1;0: bill from 

 gape, 1*2 to 1*25 ; weight, 2-25 to 2"5 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 8-5 to 8 - 82 ; expanse, 12*4 to 12-82 ; tail, 

 3-5 to 4 ; wing, 375 to 4 ; tarsus, - 85 to 0'95 ; bill from gape, 

 1-12 to 1-2; weight, 1-75 to 2 ozs. 



The colors of soft parts and plumage of the two sexes are 

 absolutely similar ; they only differ in size. 



The legs and feet vary from bright smalt to dark purplish 

 blue ; the claws are brown ; the irides vary from deep green 

 to bright green shot with gold, and this latter is the usual color; 

 eyelids black ; inside of mouth bright blue ; upper mandible 

 and edges of lower mandible bright smalt blue ; the rest of 

 lower mandible bright chrome yellow, shading a little to green 

 towards gape ; the upper mandible is often tinged greenish to- 

 wards the tip ; the lower mandible is quite wrongly coloured 

 in Mr. Gould's B. of As., Pt. V., PI. 7. 



Except in the particular points dwelt on by Mr. Oates (S. F., 

 III., p. 336) the adults of this species, though larger, so exactly 

 resemble those of C. affinis, fully described loc. cit., that no sepa- 

 rate description is here required ; but I note that in fine speci- 

 mens the tips of the longest ear-coverts are delicately tipped 

 with a hair line of silver. 



Of the young birds it may be useful to remark that the 

 youngest specimens we have obtained have the entire wings, 

 except the smallest row of coverts along the ulna, a rather 

 pale hair brown instead of black, both median and greater 

 coverts with round or triangular white spots just at the tip, 

 which spots however in some specimens are buffy instead of 

 white. These spots disappear first from the greater coverts. 

 In the quite young birds — I mean the youngest we have 

 obtained — the rump is strongly mottled with black as is the 

 broad red throat patch ; the feathers of the chin and upper 

 throat are whitey brown, fringed and tipped with sooty black ; 

 the white scapulars are very little developed. 



The edge of the wing, however, is bright yellow, as in the 

 adult, and the abdomen is very much mottled with orange and 

 a little with dusky. This orange mottling, however, is not con- 

 fined to the young. One magnificent specimen, a male from Le- 

 myne, has the whole of the abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts, 

 thickly mottled with bright orange ; and, though traces of 

 the same are observable in many adults, this is the only one 



