BIRDS OF TENASSERIM* 105 



edged paler, and as they recede from the primaries, with more 

 and more of their outer webs overlaid with pale grey or brownish 

 grey ; the tertiaries, almost wholly of this color, only showing 

 the green towards their bases at the centres of the feathers ; 

 they are, however, obscurely tipped browner. The primary- 

 greater coverts dark brown with a faint greenish tinge, 

 obscurely edged paler or greyer ; their lesser coverts and 

 the greater coverts of the secondaries and tertiaries grey or 

 brownish grey, according to the light in which you hold the 

 wing, and more or less margined at the tips with brown, which 

 has a dull greenish reflection. 



The upper tail-coverts draby brown, with a trace of the 

 greenish gloss that pervades the back, which even there is dull 

 and only noticeable in certain lights. 



The central tail feathers much the same color as the tertiaries, 

 also with a faint greenish gloss in certain lights, and a little 

 freckled at the tips with white. 



The next three feathers on either side dark green, tipped for 

 about three-quarters of an inch to an inch with white, a little 

 freckled with brown ; outer tail feathers nearly the same color 

 as the central ones, tipped like the preceding. 



The tail is rounded ; the four central feathers are nearly of 

 the same length ; the next 2, the next 07, and the outermost 

 1*7 shorter. 



There is a white or fulvous white patch on the edge of 

 the wing at the base of the primary coverts ; the chin, 

 throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, breast, and sides of the neck, dull 

 pale brownish ferruginous, with a darkish patch under the orbit, 

 and another at the base of the lower mandible, and a trace 

 of the same from the chin inside the rami of the lower mandi- 

 ble, and all the feathers more or less conspicuously grey centred, 

 in the same manner as the feathers of the head ; all the feathers 

 of the breast, abdomen, vent, lower tail-coverts, tibial plumes, 

 are grey, darker on the two latter ; each feather fringed at the 

 margins,which are lax and disunited, with very pale rusty fulvous, 

 and on the lower abdomen, and about the vent, these fringes are 

 so broad that the grey of the bases is not seen; wing-lining grey. 



The length of the bill measured along the sharp ridge of 

 the casque, from the back of the casque to the tip, is 4-9. The 

 greatest height of the upper mandible and casque, from the 

 commissure to the highest point of the casque, is 1-8. 



There is a slight ferruginous tinge about the bases of the 

 feathers that spring from the posterior margin of the nostril. 



A youno- male of this species was shot by Captain Bingham 

 on the 12th of October last, on the banks of the Thoungyen. 



The specimen is manifestly immature, and is totally unlike 

 the female obtained by Davison. It more resembles, as far 



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