176 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



days later had the legs pale lavender; the feet dull yellow; 

 another killeJ about the same time had the entire legs and feet 

 a pale lavender ; the colors of the bills being similarly inter- 

 mediate. 



224 bis. — Arachnothera modesta, Eyton (12). 



Tkoungsheyen Satan ; Meeta Myo j Bantasoon. 



Confined to the forests of the southern and central por- 

 tions of the province. 



[This species, the Grey-breasted Spider-hunter, is rare in 

 Tenasserim. 



The most northerly point at which I have as yet met with 

 it has been on the north-western spurs of Mooleyit. But in the 

 Malay Peninsula it is much more abundant. In fact, in the whole 

 country all about Malacca, and again about Jokore, it is perhaps 

 the commonest species of the genus. 



Like the other species it most especially affects plantain gardens 

 and cocoanut trees, and, so far as voice and flight are concerned, 

 offers nothing to remark as distinguishing it from the other 

 nearly-allied species. — W. D.] 



In this species, as in most of the Arachnotheras, the males 

 are considerably larger than the females, but the two sexes do 

 not differ in plumage : — 



Males. — Length, 7*0 ; expanse, 10'25 to 105 ; tail, 2- to 2-12 ; 

 wing, 325 to 337 ; tarsus, 06 to 0*7 ; bill from gape, 1*45 to 

 1-55 j weight, 0'75 to 0-85 oz. 



Female. — Length, 6*25 to 6'75 ; expanse, 9 to 95 ; tail, 1*62 to 

 1-85 ; wing, 2-8 to 2'9 ; tarsus, 0'62 to 0'7 ; bill from gape, 1-35 

 to 1*4 ; weight, 0-55 to 0*6 oz. 



The legs and feet vary from reddish ochre to pale reddish 

 brown ; the upper mandible is black ; the lower reddish horny 

 to pale reddish brown ; irides brown. 



The entire upper surface (except the tips of the primaries 

 and a band just inside the tips of the tail feathers, which are 

 hair brown like the inner webs of all the quills, and almost the 

 whole of the first and second primaries) is a moderately bright 

 olive yellow ; the feathers of the forehead and crown brown 

 centred, giving a scaly appearance to those parts ; lores, cheeks, 

 basal portion of ear-coverts, chin, throat, and breast dull pale 

 greyish green ; all the feathers of the chin, throat and front of 

 the neck more or less conspicuously dark-shafted ; rest of 

 lower parts similar, but rather paler and more lutescent, and all 

 the under tail-coverts broadly tipped with yellowish white. In 

 many specimens the greater part of the breast is darker shafted, 

 and there is a certain amount of obscure dark striation down 

 the centre of the abdomen. 



