BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 141 



[A bird of the evergreen forests, not occurring in open coun- 

 try, but unlike the other Callolophi rather partial to mangrove 

 swamps, in which I have often shot them. These, too,, I never 

 saw on the ground. It has none of the peculiar habits of puni- 

 ceus, and its note, as well as that of mentalis (of which 1 shot 

 many in the Straits), rather resembles that of the Gecini. All 

 three species, however, as a rule go about singly. — W. D.J 



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



Males.— Length, 9'5 to 10"62 ; expanse, 15*75 to 17-12 ; tail, 

 3-1 to 3'82; wing, 4-85 to 5-5 ; tarsus, 0'8 to TO; bill from 

 gape, 1-05 to 1*37 ; weight, 3 '5 to 4-5 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 9*5 to 10*82; expanse, 15-55 to 16'5 ; tail, 

 3-62 to 3-75 ; wing, 4-85 to 5*37 ; tarsus, 0-8 to TO ; bill from 

 gape, 1-05 to 1*3 ; weight, 4 to 4*5 ozs. 



Legs and feet pale dingy green ; claws bluish or greenish 

 dusky horny ; irides commonly red, in some specimens almost 

 brown, in one pale crimson ; eyelids pale plumbeous to dark grey ; 

 upper mandible black ; lower mandible pale plumbeous to pale 

 bluish white. 



The adult male has the forehead, crown, occiput, the greater 

 portion of the occipital crest, and the upper portion of the sides 

 of the neck, and the whole visible portion of the closed wings, 

 (except the inner webs of the tertiaries, and the outer webs of 

 the primaries below the emarginations,) very deep crimson, 

 brighter on the sides of the occiput and upper neck ; the poste- 

 rior portion of the crest pale yellow ; the extreme base of the 

 forehead often brownish or dusky ; the feathers under the eye, 

 cheeks, patch at the base of lower mandible and the ear-coverts 

 pale chestnut brown ; all the feathers more or less, in different 

 specimens, broadly tipped with crimson ; chin, throat, rest of 

 sides of neck, and sometimes upper breast, the same pale chest- 

 nut brown ; breast and entire lower parts closely barred, black 

 ish brown and sordid white; the whole breast, more or less 

 tinged with the color of the throat, which, in some specimens, 

 completely overlays the uppermost feathers and obliterates the 

 barrings there ; the upper back is normally -green, barred with 

 ruddy or greenish white, or again pale yellow, but in some speci- 

 mens many of the feathers, especially towards the sides of the 

 back, are blotched with crimson, and sometimes there are such 

 blotches even in the middle of the upper back. 



The scapulars are green at their bases, generally barred like 

 the upper back, sometimes unbarred, but crimson at their tips 

 and on their outer webs ; the rump and central portion of the 

 shortest upper tail-coverts are green ; the feathers so broadly 

 fringed with very pale yellow that scarcely any other color is 

 seen ; the rest of the upper tail-coverts brownish black, some- 

 times tinged with green, with pale spots near the tips, some- 



