156 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Legs and feet dirty green ; claws bluish black j bill black ; base 

 of lower mandible slightly tinged reddish horny ; irides very 

 dark brown. 



199. — Cuculus canorus, Lin. 



Blyth says that a specimen of this bird in immature plumage 

 was sbot in his presence in the garden of the Commissioner of 

 Moulmein. 



Wardlaw Ramsay also obtained it in Karennee at 3,500 feet, 

 but Davison has never yet met with it in Tenasserim. 



200.— Cuculus striatus, Drap. (i). 



Eanee. 



Apparently not rare in Tenasserim north or south; though 

 only a single specimen was preserved. 



202. — Cuculus sonneratii, Lath. 



Blyth (B. of B.,p. 80) gives this fromTenasserinij and says that 

 as an Indian bird he has only seen it from Malabar and Ceylon. 



It most probably does occur in the lower bills of Tenasserim, 

 though we have not yet met with it ; as an Indian bird, besides 

 the localities mentioned, my museum contains it from near 

 Mussoorie, from Kumaon, from Sikkim, from the Lower Hills 

 of the Bhotan Doars, from Raepoor, Central Provinces, and 

 from Matheran (above Bombay). 



Blyth also quotes Lord Walden's remark that pravatus, 

 Horsf., which inhabits Malacca, Sumatra, &c., is considerably 

 smaller. 



The following measurements of the wings of a number of 

 Indian and Malayan specimens, taken at random from our large 

 series, quite confirm this view : — 



Indian.— 5'0; 4~65 ; 4*8; 4-6; 4-9; 4-65; 4'65 ; 4-9; 4*9. 



Malayan.— 4-25 ; 4'25 ; 4"4; 4-6; 4"25 ; 4'4 ; 4"2. 



I think, moreover, that taking the birds as a body, though this 

 cannot be predicated of single specimens, the bills in pravaius 

 are proportionally larger and wider at the base. Still I am 

 disposed to believe that a really large series from Sikhim to 

 Sumatra would prove the two forms to grade insensibly into 

 each other. 



203.— Cuculus micropterus, Gould. (2). 



Mooleyit ; Choulai Creek. 



Bather rare in Tenasserim. 



