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portions of the four central tail-feathers towards their tips 

 suffused with the same color. 



The adult female has the point of the chin, the patch below 

 the carpal joint, the tips of the quills and the entire tail white ; 

 the entire crest, including- the eye tuft, feathers of the forehead, 

 crown, and occiput, creamy white ; all the feathers conspicu- 

 ously black shafted ; the rest of the plumage black ; wings 

 and scapulars with a faint greenish gloss, and feathers of the 

 neck all round with something of the same over their central 

 portion. 



145 quat.— Anorrhinus galeritus, Tem. (1 ). 



Bankasoon. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province. 



[Though this species was not uncommon in the forests around 

 Malewoon and Bankasoon, yet it was so very wary and difficult 

 of approach that only one specimen, a male, was procured. We 

 found them in small parties of five or six, keeping to the most 

 dense portions of the forest, and always about the tops of the 

 higher trees. They have a note very similar to that of Hydro- 

 cissa malabarica, and like them keep uttering it at short intervals. 



In Tenasserim we did not notice this species anywhere 

 except in the evergreen forests at Malewoon and Bankasoon ; 

 they are perhaps more numerous further south in the Malayan 

 Peninsula. 



The stomach of the specimen obtained contained only fruit. 



It is strictly arboreal in its habits, never descending to the 

 ground as B. comatus does, as also the small Black-billed Hydro- 

 cissa nigrirostriSf Blyth, of the Malayan Peninsula. — W. D.] 



In the present species the casque is only about the same 

 height as the upper mandible ; sharply carinated above, extend- 

 ing for about two-thirds the length of the bill. It is not a 

 well-marked casque, looks very much as if the culmen of the 

 bill had been pinched into a sharp ridge. 



There is a large bare orbital space extending for nearly an 

 inch backward from the eye ; the chin and throat as far back 

 as the base of the lower mandible are also bare. 



The following are the dimensions and a description of our 

 male, a fine adult : — 



Male. — Length, 33*0; expanse, 46*74; tail from vent, 13'0; 

 wing, 14*25 ; tarsus, 2 ; bill from gape, 5*75 ; from posterior 

 margin of casque along ridge and culmen to tip, 675 ; of casque, 

 only 4> ; height of upper mandible and casque, at centre of casque, 

 1*46; of upper mandible only at the same place, 0*79 ; weight, 

 2-5B&S. 



In the adult male the legs, feet, and claws are black ; the 

 irides lake red ; the gular and orbital skin pale blue, darker at 



