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wings of Lis Bornean specimens, nor does the Marquis of 

 Tweeddale give those of his Sumatran ones j and all I can say 

 positively therefore is that, while I entertain no doubt that 

 certain Sumatran and Malay Peninsula specimens are referable 

 to canicapillus, it is possible that another smaller race occurs 

 in Java, and that this same smaller race may also occur in 

 Borneo and along with canicapillus in Sumatra and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



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



Males.— Length, 535 to 5-75 ; expanse, 10'0 to 10-62 ; tail 

 from vent, 1-75 to 2*12 ; wing, 3*1 to 3"3 ; tarsus, 0*5 to 06 ; 

 bill from gape, 0-75 to 0-8; weight. 067 to 075 oz. 



Female.— Length, 5'3 to 5*75 ; expanse, 10-62 to 108 ; tail 

 from vent, 175 to 2-12 ; wing, 3-12 to 3'27; tarsus, 0*5; bill 

 fromgape, 0'65 to 0-7; weight, 0-5 to 0-7 oz. 



Legs, feet, claws, and lower mandible plumbeous ; upper 

 mandible horny brown ; irides red brown. 



165 bis— Hemicercus canente, Less. (43). Descr. S. R, 

 III., 61. 



(? Karen Bills, from 5C0 to 4,000 feet, Earns.) Palipoon ; Salween R. ; 

 Beeling ; Thntone ; Wmipong; Kaukaryit, Hongtkraw K. ; Khyin; Meetan ; 

 Amherst ; Zadee; Meeta Myo ; Zadawoon ; Tenasserim Town; Laynah. > Pakchan j 

 Bankasoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the province. 



[The Burmese Heart-spotted Woodpecker, though widely dif- 

 fused, is nowhere common. It is chiefly met with in moderately 

 thin jungle and clearings, in pairs, sometimes in families, and is 

 very sprightly in its movements. It has a peculiar note, a sort of 

 lono--drawn chur-r, which it constantly utters as it moves about 

 the°branches, and by which it often betrays its presence. Both 

 sexes of this species like H. cordatus bear tufts of bristly feathers 

 in the middle of the back, which are usually covered with a 

 gummy substance, which has a very strong peculiar, somewhat 

 resinous, but decidedly pleasant smell. Both the viscidity and 

 the scent completely disappear after the specimen has .been 

 preserved a short time. — W. D.] 



I give the Karen Hills doubtfully as a habitat of this species, 

 because the Marquis of Tweeddale says of the species occur- 

 ring there : — 



" Two males are sent by Mr. Ramsay ; one has the head uni- 

 form deep black ; the other, with a few buff markings on the 

 feathers of the forehead and crown." 



This, if accurate, seems to indicate a distinct species. I have 

 examined over 50 specimens of this species, and never yet saw 

 one with the head uniform deep black. Davison has seen many 

 more and says the same. Neither have we ever seen one with 



