152 BIRDS OF TENASSEMM. 



special look-out for it, but failed to see it, so that it probably 

 does not occur so far south. Its note is very similar to that of 

 M. asiatica, and so are its habits. Those I shot had eaten only 

 fruit.— W. D.] 



196. — Megalcema frcmkUni, Bly th. 



Stated by Tickell to swarm in the Tenasserim Hills, but the 

 bird he referred to was without doubt the nearly-allied 

 M. ramsayi. 



196 Us.— Megalsema ramsayi, Walden, (24). Desce. 

 S. E., III., 402. 



{Karennee, Earns.) Above Paraduba ; Mooleyit. 



Confined in Tennaserim proper to the higher slopes of Mooley- 

 it, but re-appearing in the continuation of the same range in, 

 Karennee. 



[I only met with this species on the Mooleyit range about 

 3,500 feet. I never saw it in any of the many hills rising far 

 above this elevation, northward of this. On Mooleyit it is the 

 commonest and the noisiest of birds. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded of five males 

 and one female : — 



Males. — Length, 8-5 to 9-2 ; expanse, 13*4 to 13*75 ; tail from 

 vent, 2*4 to 2*8 ; wing, 3-9 to 4-05 ; tarsus, 0*9 to 1*05 ; bill 

 from gape, 1'35 to 1*4; weight, 3 ozs. 



Female. — Length, 925 ; expanse, 13*75 ; tail from vent, 2*7 ; 

 wing, 4*0 j tarsus, 1*0 ; bill from gape, 1*5 ; weight, 3-25 ozs. 



Legs and feet pale dirty bluish green ; claws greenish horny ; 

 base of upper mandible and lower mandible to angle of gonys 

 pale plumbeous ; rest of bill black ; irides red brown. 



196 quat. — Megalsema mystacophanos, Tem. (38). 



Om-a-gwen ; Hergui ; HankacMn ; Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southern half of the province, but rare except 

 in the southern quarter. 



[This bird has a peculiar note which might very well be 

 syllabized by tok-toktok — tok-toktok uttered incessantly. 

 In the forests where it does occur, its note may be heard nearly 

 all day and nearly all night on a bright moonlight night, but 

 it is most noisy during the evening soon after dusk. 



Though very often heard, it is but comparatively seldom seen, 

 for it keeps either to the tops of the highest trees or to the 

 very bushy ones. It is very fond of clinging to the trunks 

 of trees and tapping away like a Woodpecker, and many of those 

 I obtained I shot while so engaged, As a rule it keeps to the 



