140 BIRDS OF TENA3SERIM. 



Females.— Length, 10'25 to 11*0 ; expanse, 15-25 to 17-25; 

 tail, 382 to 435 ; wing-, 5'12 to 5-5 ; tarsus, 0*85 to 0-9 ; bill 

 from gape, 1*35 to 1*45; weight, 2-75 to 3*25 ozs. 



Legs and feet pale green, sometimes dingy, sometimes slight- 

 ly yellowish ; claws pale greenish horny ; eyelids dull black ; or- 

 bital skin lavender blue, bright plumbeous blue, pale blue, 

 sometimes glanced with green close to the eye ; irides crimson ; 

 lower maudible and base of upper mandible chrome to green- 

 ish yellow ; rest of upper mandible, black ; gape lavender. 



The males have a broad crimson stripe at the base of the lower 

 mandible on either side ; in other respects the plumage of the 

 two sexes does not differ, but birds of the same sex differ a good 

 deal, inter se, as I think, in consequence of differences of age. 



Whole top of the head and anterior portion of occipital crest 

 and entire visible portion of closed wings, except the outer 

 webs of the primaries below the emarginations, and the tips 

 of the tertiaries, brilliant crimson ; rest of occipital crest pale 

 bright yellow ; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and 

 more or less of tips of tertiaries, bright grass green ; the feathers 

 of the upper back narrowly fringed with bright yellow, those 

 of the rump and lower back so broadly fringed with this 

 colour that it becomes dominant ; a blackish dusky line on 

 the upper part of the lores ; chin, throat, ear-coverts and 

 sides of the neck a sordid dingy greenish brown, greener 

 on the ear-coverts ; breast and rest of lower parts dull olive 

 green, becoming browner on the vent and lower tail-coverts ; 

 sides and flanks more or less spotted with white or greenish 

 white ; in some specimens the sides and flanks are regularly 

 barred with greenish or fulvous white, and the whole abdomen 

 is spotted, and occasionally these spots extend to the lower tail- 

 coverts also, and again in some specimens there is barely a 

 trace of any spots at all ; the tail is uniform black ; the outer 

 webs of the primaries below the emarginations, and the whole 

 inner webs, deep brown ; the inner webs on their basal portion 

 with numerous moderate sized white spots at the margins ; 

 wing-lining white or fulvous white ; all the feathers margined 

 with green or dusky, so as to produce a spotted appearance. 



Some birds are almost entirely brown below, some have the 

 throat pale almost whitey brown. 



Some have the whole throat a dingy rusty brown ; many are 

 much duller on the upper surface than I have described. 



175 quat— Callolophus malaccensis, Lath. (15). 



Mergui; Tenaaserim Town ; Bopyin; Bankasoou ; Malewoon, 



Confined to the southern portions of the province and there 

 rather common. 



