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spot, and a larger or smaller patch of blue on the middle of the 

 back, (sometimes extending to the rump, wings, and tail as in the 

 male,) and all the feathers of the upper back and interscapular 

 region faintly, and of the rump and upper tail-coverts more 

 distinctly, fringed at the tips with a somewhat paler and 

 yellower shade of green ; the chin and upper part of the 

 throat pale whitey brown ; lower part of the throat whitish ; 

 feathers darker shafted and tinged towards the tips with pale 

 yellow, sometimes a little shaded with green ; the whole of the 

 rest of the lower surface a comparatively pure yellowish green 

 rather greyer on the breast, brighter and purer on the flanks^ 

 vent, and lower tail-coverts. In some females the vinaceous 

 of the cap extends unbroken and almost uniform in color over 

 the whole of the cheeks and ear-coverts ; some have the upper 

 breast slightly tinged with a rufeseent shade. 



157. — Picus macei, Vieill. 



Obtained by Ramsay in Karennee at 4,000 feet, and in the 

 Karen Hills at 3,000 feet. Not met with as yet in any other 

 part of Tenasserim. 



157 ter. — Pious analis, Horsf. Descr. S. F., III., 37. 



Met with nowhere in Tenasserim by us, but obtained by 

 Ramsay in Tonghoo and Karennee, which really belong to a 

 different zoological sub-division to the rest of Tenasserim. 



157 quat. — Picus atratus, Blyth. (6). 



(Karen Hills, 3,000 to 4,000 feet, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween; Paraduba • 

 Moolejit. ' 



Confined to the forests of the northern and central por- 

 tions of the outer Tenasserim range, and not occurring 

 much, if at all, below 3,000 feet elevation. 



[I have had few opportunities of observing this. Even where 

 it occurs it is extremely rare; but I should say that its 

 habits were precisely those of the Himalayan P. brunnei- 

 from, and its note very similar. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh :— 



Males.— -Length, 8-12 to 8-62 ; expanse, 14-4 to 15-0; tail, 

 3-25 to 3-5 ; wing, 4'5 to 4-75 ; tarsus, 07 to 075 ; bill from 

 gape, 1-1 to 1-3; weight, 1-5 to 1-82 oz. 



Females.— Length, 8'35 to 8-6 ; expanse, 15 to 15 3 ; tail, 3 to 

 3-4; wing, 475 to 4'9 ; tarsus, 07 to 0-8 ; bill from gape, 1-1 

 to 1-3; weight, 1-5 to 175 oz. 



Legs and feet dark plumbeous or plumbeous brown ; claws 

 very dark brown ; irides light wood to deep brown ; upper 

 mandible dull black, dark brown, or horny brown ; lower 

 mandible and extreme base of upper mandible pale plumbeous 

 or bluish white. 



