144 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



secondary and tertiary greater coverts like the rump, dusky brown, 

 with narrow transverse bars, more or less imperfect on the inner 

 webs of the secondaries, and strongly overlaid with the crimson 

 maroon of the back, so that, in fine specimens, the banding is barely 

 traceable in the closed wing, except on the inner webs of the 

 tertiaries, to which the maroon very seldom extends ; winglet, 

 primary greater coverts, and primaries hair brown ; the two 

 latter obscurely banded with brownish or rufescent white, which 

 is almost obsolete on the inner webs of the primaries towards 

 their bases. 



Tail, which is almost invariably extremely worn and dilapi- 

 dated, black, with narrow transverse pale brown or rufescent white 

 bars ; chin and throat much like the crown, but usually paler on 

 the chin and darker, grading into the color of the breast, on the 

 lower part of the throat ; an obscure reddish tinge, not only in 

 the male, but equally in the female, on the feathers on either side 

 of the throat at the base of the lower mandible ; breast and entire 

 lower parts a deep sooty, at times somewhat chocolate, brown, 

 almost black on the sides, often with a faint maroon tinge on the 

 breast and flanks ; lower tail-coverts often with obscure very 

 narrow paler transverse bars ; edge of the wing deep brown ; 

 wing-lining and lower surface of quills grey brown, with nu- 

 merous narrow pale transverse bands, obsolete towards the tips 

 of the quills. 



In some specimens the frontal feathers are paler and have more 

 or less of a rusty tinge; sometimes all the feathers of the crown 

 and occiput are feebly tipped with this paler color ; the whole 

 coloring of the bird varies in different specimens ; some specimens 

 are almost black below ; some have the head a moderately dark 

 earth brown ; in some specimens the red patches on the sides of 

 the occiput extend laterally as a narrow half collar, nearly or 

 quite meeting on the nape. 



Females only differ in wanting the crimson patches just refer- 

 red to ; they have, equally with the male, the reddish moustachial 

 tinge. 



Young females appear to be precisely similar to the adults, but 

 everywhere duller colored. Young males appear, to judge from a 

 single specimen we have, to be also like the adults, but to want 

 the crimson patches and instead to have all the feathers of the 

 crown and occiput suffused on their terminal halves with dull 

 maroon red. 



177 bis.— Gecinulus viridis, Blyth. (22). Descr. S. E., 

 Ill, 71. 



(Tonghoo Hills, at 2,500 feet, Earns.) Kyouk-nyat ; Dargwin ; Pahpoon ; 

 Head waters of the Tiioungyen 5 Assoon ; Meetan ; Yea ; Meeta Myo ; Pabyin ; 

 Mergui ; Pakchan. 



Not uncommon throughout the province in suitable localities. 



