BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 149 



188. — Yunx torquilla, Lin. 



Obtained by Ramsay in Karennee and apparently in Tonorhoo 

 also, but not met with elsewhere in Tenasserim as yet. 



190 Us. — Oaloramphus hayi, Gr. (4). 



Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province, and there 

 even excessively rare. 



[For a Barbet this species has a most extraordinary note, a 

 low soft whistle. It is generally found in small parties of 

 three and four, sometimes in pairs and occasionally singly, 

 hunting about the leaves and branches and trunks of trees, 

 peering into every crevice and cranny in the bark, and cling- 

 ing about in all sorts of positions far more like a Tit than a Bar- 

 bet. Its food consists quite as much of insects as of fruits. 

 It is a forest bird. I have never seen it in gardens ; and, though 

 I have shot so few in Tenasserim, I have had ample opportunities 

 of watching it further south. — W. D.] 



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



Males.— Length, 7- to 7'5 ; expanse, II- to 11*5 ; tail, 2-05 to 

 2-25 ; wing, 3-1 to 3-5 ; tarsus, 0-75 to 0*8; bill from gape, 1*15 

 to 1*3 ; weight, 1-5 to 1*75 oz. 



Females. -^Length, 675 to 7'5 ; expanse, 10-75 to 11-25 ; 

 tail 2- to 2-2; wing, 2-15 to 2-55 ; tarsus, 0*8 ; bill from gape, 

 1-15 to 1-2; weight, 1-25 to 1-75 oz. 



Count Salvadori, U. di B., p. 40, infers that the two sexes of 

 the nearly allied C. fuliginosus of Borneo differ in the color of 

 their bills. In this he is doubtless correct, because in the present 

 species the males have the bill black, while the females have it 

 dull reddish brown to a dirty orange or ochraceous brown ; in 

 both sexes the legs and feet are orange, the claws black, the irides 

 dull red or brownish red, occasionally dark brown, with scarcely 

 any perceptible red tinge. The orbital skin, brown. 



The two sexes only differ in this matter of the color of their 

 bills. 



In full plumaged adults the entire upper surface is brown, 

 somewhat of an umber brown on the head, more of a hair brown 

 elsewhere; the feathers of the head excessively narrowly mar- 

 gined with a rustier brown, and all the feathers of the mantle, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts narrowly margined with excessively 

 pale yellow or greenish yellow, besides which there is just a 

 perceptible olivaceous shade over the whole of these parts, and 

 on the outer margins of the tail-feathers towards their bases. 



The yellow or greenish yellow margins referred to are always 

 more distinct on the upper tail-coverts, and the whole of these 

 margins are often wanting in birds in worn plumage. 



