170 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Females.— Length, 20 to 21*62; expanse, 24 to 25 ; tail, 10-5 

 to 11-62 ; wing, 7'75 to 8'25 ; tarsus, 2'37 to 2'5 • bill from 

 gape, 2'0 ; weight, about 12 ozs. 



The legs, feet, and bill are black ; the irides crimson. 



We have this species not only from all parts of Tenasserim, 

 but also from numerous localities in Pegu, from Akyab, the 

 Arracan Hills, Dilkhushah, Cachar, and Dacca, and we have a 

 quite young bird from Dehra Doon just out of the nest with the 

 win°" 8-0, which may belong to this species, or may be mawimus. 



Maximus we have still only from Sindh, Sikim, Goorgaon 

 (whence also we have true rujlpefinis ) , and strange to say Cawn- 

 pore, and possibly the young specimen from the Dhoon may 

 belong to this species. 



Bufipennis we have still only from Delhi, Grourgaon, Allahabad, 

 Raipore, Sumbulpore, and other places in the Central Provinces, 

 from Ootacamund, Seegore, Colachul, Anjango, and other loca- 

 lities in the south of India. 



By some inexplicable oversight, while we have nearly 60 

 specimens of intermedins, we have only twenty of the common 

 rufipennis, and we are therefore quite unable at present to de- 

 fine at all accurately the limits of the three species ; but rufipen- 

 nis appears to be the bird of Southern and Central, maximus 

 of Western and North-western Continental India, intermedins 

 of Eastern Continental India, and the whole of Burma. 



I take this opportunity of noting that the bird that I described 

 from Acheen as Centrococcyx eurycercus, Hay, was not really that 

 species but distinct. I observe that Lord Tweeddale remarks that 

 the Centrococcyx from the south-east of Sumatra is identical with 

 Malaccan eurycercus, but this is certainly not the case with 

 the Centrococcyx from Acheen, the north-west extremity of 

 Sumatra. 



The following are the dimensions of the true eurycercus from 

 Malacca aud Pulo Seban : — . 



Height of Mid Hind 



Bill from Bill from both Man- Toe and Toe and 



Contrast these with similar dimensions of a very fine Acheen 

 adult : — 



Male 7-9 *10- 1-95 fl - 83 064 205 184 139 



* From vent, 95. 



f From margin of feathers, 1.4. 



