168 BIRDS OF TENASSKRIM. 



[This is a very rare bird in Tenasserim. I got one, a male, at 

 Bankasoon, and Mr. A. T. Hough shot another near Malewoon, 

 and these and two others shot later at Malewoon are the only 

 specimens I have ever seen in Tenasserim. In the Malay Penin- 

 sula further south, the bird is less uncommon, frequenting the 

 outskirts of the forest and undergrowth. Its habits are just 

 those of R/wpodytes. — W. D.J 



All our specimens procured in Tenasserim were males. Only 

 one of our Malayan specimens, a female, was measured, and of 

 this the colors of the soft parts were not recorded. 



The sexes do not appear to differ in size or plumage, but the 

 following dimensions and colors of the soft parts refer only to 

 males :— 



Length, 16-5 to 18-0; expanse, 15'25 to 17 ; tail, 10'37 to 

 10*8; wing, 5*25 to 575 ; tarsus, 1"35 to 1*5 ; bill from gape, 

 1-42 to 1-8. 



The legs and feet plumbeous, dark, and with more or less of a 

 green shade ; bill coral red ; gape dull smalt ; naked space round 

 eye blue, in some pale, in some a bright smalt ; irides brown, in 

 some deep, in some light. In somewhat younger birds the cul- 

 men and tip of lower mandible are black ; very likely in the 

 quite young bird the whole mandible is reddish dusky, but we 

 have as yet obtained no nestlings. 



In the adult male the forehead and anterior part of the crown 

 are a light grey brown, (with more or less of a fulvous tinge and 

 dark-shafted,) passing into the purer grey of the posterior portion 

 of the crown ^ occiput, back and sides of the neck behind the eye, 

 the lores and feathers immediately under the eye, chin, entire 

 throat, and front and lower portion of sides of the neck pale, ferru- 

 ginous buff; breast and upper abdomen clear rJearl grey, shaded 

 and overlaid with dingy buff; lower abdomen, flanks, tibial 

 plumes and lower tail-coverts rather bright chestnut, deepest on 

 the lower tail -coverts ; sides, axillaries, wing-lining, a beautiful 

 clear grey, with a little pale fulvous patch just under the carpal 

 joint ; wings, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and tail, dull greyish 

 metallic green, with more or less of a blue lustre; the lesser 

 coverts and the shoulders of the wing greyer and paler ; the tail 

 darker and greener, obsoletely rayed, and with all the feathers tip- 

 ped with from 0-6 to 09 ; (the central ones slightly less broadly 

 than the others) with pure white. 



The back and rump dark grey ; the feathers lax, and with 

 more or less of a greenish lustre. 



217 quat— Centrococcyx intermedius, Hume. (35). 

 Descr. S. F., I., 454 



(Karen Bills, Tonghoo, Rams). Pahpoon ; Thoungsha Gyne R. ; Pabyouk ; 

 Karope ; Amherst; Meeta Myo ; Tavoy ; Mergui ; Pukchan. 



