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space, and some traces of this are sometimes observable on the 

 lower margin immediately under the middle of the eye. No 

 further separate description seems necessary. 



The following are dimensions, &c. : — 



Males.— Length, 157 to 17*0 ; expanse, 1675 to 17*5 ; tail, 

 9-25 to 10-25 ; wing, 5*5 to 5-82 ; tarsus, 1*4 to 1-5 ; bill from 

 gape, 1-5 to 1-62 ; weight, 3*5 to 375 ozs. 



Females (only 2 measured). — Length, 15*82, 16-12; ex- 

 panse, 16-5; tail, 9, 9*62; wing, 5-45, 5-5 ; tarsus, 1-5 ; bill 

 from gape, 1*5, 1*55. 



Legs and feet plumbeous green ; bill pale green ; hides pale 

 blue ; bare orbital space clear orange, palest round the eye, 

 shading to blood red at the posterior angle. 



216 ter.— Phcenicophaus erythrognathus, Hartl. (26). 



Yea ; Mergui ; Laynah ,• Choungthapee ; Bahonee; Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon • 

 Malewoon. 



Very common in the southernmost portions of the province ; 

 getting rarer as you proceed northwards, and apparently not 

 occurring north of the Yea River, which seems the boundary 

 of several species. 



[I obtained one specimen of this bird about 48 miles south 

 of Yea, but in this locality it appeared to be very rare. At 

 Mergui and southwards to the Pakchan it is common. As 

 I have elsewhere mentioned the iris of this bird in the male 

 is a pale clear blue, in the female usually bright yellow, some- 

 times an opalescent white tinged with yellow ; in the youno- of 

 both sexes it is a deep reddish brown. In habits this bird 

 generally, I think, resembles the other Zanclostomi, and in the 

 localities it frequents also, viz., open forest, gardens and thick 

 secondaiy scrub, by preference the latter. — W. D.] 



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

 Males.— Length, 18-5 to 19*25 ; expanse, 19*5 to 21 ; tail, 10-5 

 to 10-75 ; wing, 6-65 to 7-12; "tarsus, 1*6 to 18; bill from 

 gape, 1*8 to 2-0 ; weight, 5 to 7ozs. 



females. — Length, 17 to 19; expanse, 18-4 to 20*12; tail 

 9-12 to 10-75; wing, 6-25 to 6*82; tarsus, 1-62 to 1*75; bill 

 from gape, 1*7 to 1*98; weight, 5to6'5 ozs. 



Legs and feet dark plumbeous, or dark bluish or plumbeous 

 green ; facial skin deep red ; lower mandible to beyond the 

 gonys, and upper mandible at base below the nostril, dark ma- 

 roon red ; rest of upper mandible pale green ; rest of lower man- 

 dible green, generally darker than the upper mandible, sometimes 

 shaded with dusky ; irides turquoise or pale blue in the male, 

 bright-yellow in the female ; this is invariable in the adults. 

 One quite young bird, sexed a female just out of the nest, had the 



