138 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



174.— Chrysophlegma chlorolophus, Vieill. (15). 



{Tonghoo, Karennee Hills at 3,000 feet, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween ; 

 Kollidoo ; Kyouk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Wimpong j Myawadee ; Endingnone ; 

 Kaukaryit, Homigthraw R. ; Mooleyit ; Amherst. 



Confined to the northern and central portions of the province, 

 occurring- alike in the lower and highest hills, and even in the 

 plains, though rare there, and not very common anywhere. 



[Another ground-feeding Woodpecker, occurring alike in 

 moderately thin and dense forests, and found right up to the 

 top of Mooleyit. 



It goes about generally in pairs, but at Myawadee I met 

 with huge troops of Woodpeckers consisting of this species; 

 flavinucha, occipitalis, nigrigenis, vittatus, C. sultaneus, T. 

 intermedia, Microptermis phaioceps, T. crawfurdi, Gecinulus 

 viridts, Yitngipicus canicapillus, all moving about, as if working 

 in concert, mixed up with a lot of Garrulax belong eri, and 

 moniliger and Cissa speciosa, SfC, like a mob of Paries, Ijopho- 

 phanes, Abrornis, Silta and Cerlhia, such as one often sees near 

 Simla. Such a Paradise of Woodpeckers I never saw. It was 

 open bamboo jungle, interspersed with teak and other trees, with 

 here and there cleared patches in which there are always numbers 

 of dead trees standing or lying on the grouud. — W. D.] 



175 Ms.— Calolophus mentalis, Tern. (4). 



Bankasoon. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province, and very rare 

 there. Probably only an occasional straggler. 



The following are dimensions, &c, of the species : — 



Males. — Length, 10-75 to 11-25 ; expanse, 1 7-25 to 175 ; tail, 

 3\74 to 4-25 ; wing, 5*4 to 5 - 5 ; tarsus, 0-85 to 0-9 ; bill from 

 gape, 1'4 to 1*65; weight, 3-75 ozs. (only 2 measured.) 



Females. —Length, 10*5 to 11*0 ; expanse, 16*0 to 17-62 ; tail, 

 3'2 to 4 - 5 ; wing, 5' to 5'4 ; tarsus, 0*8 to 0'9 ; bill from gape, 1*4 

 to 1*5 ; weight, 3*5 to 4 ozs. 



Legs and feet green ; claws plumbeous ; upper mandible dull 

 black; lower mandible and edges of upper mandible near 

 nostril, pale plumbeous ; orbital skiu dark green, at times pale 

 green ; irides deep red. 



In this species the males have the point of the chin and a 

 broad stripe of feathers at the base of the lower mandible brown, 

 spotted with brownish white. 



The middle of the throat streaked black and pure white; the 

 lores nearly bare, brownish ; the feathers immediately under the 

 eye, and ear-coverts, dull olive green ; the whole top of the 

 head and the anterior portion of the occipital crest are a 

 rather brighter olive green ; terminal portion of occipital cresfc 



