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211.-— Lamprococcyx maculatus, Gm. (7). 



(Tonghoo, Lloyd. ; Karen Bills, at 4,200 feet, Rama.) Thoungaha Gfyue R. ; 



Moulmein ; Mooleyit ; Meetan. 



Chiefly confined to the central hills, but occurring as a rare 

 straggler throughout the central and northern portions of the 

 province. 



[This species has a very fine clear, and, for the size of the bird, 

 loud whistling call of three notes, rapidly uttered. It was very 

 common on the higher portions of Mooleyit. The food of this 

 species is entirely insects. It is chiefly a forest bird, though 

 I killed one specimen in a garden at Moulmein. It is very sel- 

 dom seen, as it keeps up in the higher branches of trees, but on 

 the hills is continually heard, as, on moonlight nights at any 

 rate, it calls at intervals throughout the night as well as the 

 day.— W. D.] 



The specimen I formerly with doubt identified as basalts is, 

 I am now convinced, either an abnormal specimen of the young 

 of maculatus, or the young of some yet undescribed species. It 

 is too large for basalts. 



Lord Tweeddale remarks of maculatus (Ibis, 1876, 346): "In 

 fully adult plumage it has the chin and throat, but not the breast, 

 unbarred emerald green like the upper plumage/' 



Lord Tweeddale can never have seen an adult. I have, I find, at 

 present, only twenty Himalayan specimens of this little Cuckoo, 

 but no less than five have the entire breasts uniform emerald 

 green. This perhaps is an abnormal proportion, as at least 

 thirty more specimens from the Himalayas have passed throuo-h 

 my hands, and probably I have retained an undue proportion of 

 the fullest plumaged birds. Certainly, however, at least one in 

 ten have the entire breast uniform metallic green. Out of seven 

 Tenasserim specimens one has it. 



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



Males. — Length, 5-9 to 6'8; expanse, 12*5 to 12*6; tail from 

 vent, 2-4 to 2'8 ; wing, 4*3 to 4"4 ; tarsus, 0'6 to 062 ; bill from 

 gape, 0*85 ; weight, 0*8 to 0*85 oz. 



Female. — Length, 7"0; expanse, 13"0 ; tail from vent, 2*9 ; 

 wing, 4"4; tarsus, 0'65; bill from gape, 09; weight, nearly 

 1-0 oz. 



Legs and feet dark brownish green ; bill bright orange yellow, 

 tipped black ; irides red brown. 



211 bis.— Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, Horsf. (2). 

 Descr. S. E., II,, 191. ? juv., III., 81. 



Kanee ; Amherst. 



Extremely rare in Tenasserim. 



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