122 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



dirty green ; the eyelids and cere greenish, brown or dusky 



green ; the irides creamy white. 



As to the females and young birds our records of colors are 



so discrepant that I think I had better say nothing further about 



them for the present. 



Males. — Length, 7*25 to 7*75 ; expanse, 14-8 to 15*5 ; tail 



from vent, 2-0 to 2-12; wing, 4"82 to 5-26; tarsus, 0-5 ; bill 



from gape, 0*65 to 0'8 ; weight, 2*5 to 3*0 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 7"25 to 7 5 ; expanse, 14*12 to 15'25 ; tail 

 from vent, 1*75 to 21 • wing, 4°8 to 5'0 ; tarsus, 0°5 ; bill 

 from gape, - 75 ; weight, 2*5 to 2 "75 ozs. 



The adult male has the entire cap and sides of the head pale 

 lavender blue, often much mixed with palegreenish on the cheeks ; 

 upper back and the entire scapulary region brownish dusky, 

 often a good deal suffused with dark green ; the lower part of the 

 middle of the back, rump, and all but the longest central upper 

 tail- coverts a bright violet blue; longest upper tail-coverts usually 

 green or yellowish green, more or less margined and tipped 

 with the color of the rump ; central tail feathers grass green ; 

 all the lateral ones yellow, more or less margined, and a little 

 suffused on the outer webs with green ; wings and scapulars 

 green ; almost the whole of the first primary and more or less 

 of the inner webs of all the quills deep hair brown; primary 

 greater coverts deep dull blue, tinged greenish at their bases ; 

 some of the winglet feathers also usually margined bluish ; 

 primaries margined with a brighter and yellower green ; lesser 

 and median coverts, and secondary greater coverts and scapulars 

 and tertiaries more or less conspicuously margined with more or 

 less bright, more or less greenish, yellow. A crimson spot near 

 the ulna near its base, varying very much in shade and size. 

 Chin and upper throat dingy yellowish or fulvous or sordid 

 white j breast pale greyish, often somewhat glaucous green, 

 some of the feathers often darker shafted ; the feathers not un- 

 frequently obsoletely fringed at the tips with a more fulvescent 

 shade ; abdomen and sides similar but bluer, often strongly over- 

 laid with lavender blue ; vent, flanks, and lower tail-coverts 

 bright yellowish green, the feathers more or less fringed at the 

 tips with pale lavender ; edge of the wing just above the base of 

 the primaries, yellow, elsewhere green ; wing-lining just inside 

 the edge of the wing, dark greenish, more or less tinged with 

 blue ; lower primary greater coverts, like the lower surface of 

 the quills, glossy grey brown ; the whole of the rest of the wing- 

 lining and axillaries bright crimson. 



The adult female has the entire cap a dull pale vinaceous ; the 

 lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts very pale brownish or yellowish 

 white, dark-shafted, and more or less overlaid with the color of 

 the cap ; the whole upper surface green, except the crimson wing 



