148 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



The female only differs from the male in having the orange 

 or orange buff frontal band broader, and the whole of the crim- 

 son of the head replaced by black. The young birds are like 

 the females, but want an orange tinge on the forehead, are 

 everywhere duller colored, and have the chin, throat, and feathers 

 at the base of the lower mandible a more or less pale drabby 

 dusky brown. 



186. — Vivia innominata, Bart. 



Blyth gives this from the Tenasserim Mountains ? where 

 Davison has hitherto failed to find it, though Wardlaw Ramsay 

 obtained it in the Karen Hills at 2,000 feet. 



187.— Sasia ochracea, JSodgs. (11). 



{TongTioo Hills, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween ; Palrpoon ; Meetan ; Yea ; 

 Taroy; Tkayetchoung ; Pabyin ; Mergui ; Ckoungthanouag ; Bahonee. 



Throughout the province, but rather rare, and not ascending 

 the higher hills. 



[This species occurs throughout the province (wherever the 

 country is moderately open, especially where there are bam- 

 boos) even in the extreme south, where one would expect to 

 meet with the nearly allied S. abnornis. It keeps to the under- 

 growth and secondary scrub and bamboo jungle, working about 

 the fallen logs. It is astonishing what a loud sound one of these 

 little fellows can produce when tapping a bamboo. I have more 

 than once thought that it must have been some large Wood- 

 pecker, and was astonished that I could not see it, and when at 

 last I did discover the tiny object, I felt quite as - much 

 astonished at the sound it was able to produce, as it was at my 

 sudden advent. It is very fond of knocking about in low brush 

 wood. I do not know its call, nor do I think I ever heard it. 

 It is usually alone, but sometimes pairs are met with. — W. D.] 



The specimen entered by me in one of my former lists as 

 abnornis is, I now consider, a very young bird of ochracea. 



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



Males. — Length, 33 to 3*5; expanse, 6"5 to 7'12; tail from 

 vent, 0-75 to 0-9; wing, 2'0 to 25; tarsus, 0*45 to 05 ; bill 

 from gape, 0'55 ; weight, 0'3 oz. 



Females. — Length, 3*5 ; expanse, 6*75 to 6*82; tail from vent, 

 0-82 to 1-0; wing, 2-0 to 2-1; tarsus, 0-45 to 0'5 ; bill from 

 gape, 0'6 ; weight, 0"3 oz. 



Legs and feet dull orange ; claws very pale brown ; upper 

 mandible and tip of lower mandible dark horny brown ; rest of 

 lower mandible pale bluish ; irides from pale red to dark crimson ; 

 orbital skin dull crimson. 



