178 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



yellow line, top, back and sides of the head, excluding the yellow 

 patch, and back and sides of the neck, dull olive green, the feathers 

 of the head faintly browner centred; mantle, back and upper tail- 

 coverts a somewhat brighter olive green ; quills hair brown ; 

 primaries narrowly, secondaries broadly, overlaid on their outer 

 webs, with a yellow olive ; tail like the outer webs of the secon- 

 daries ; the inner webs browner or brown ; edge of the wing whit- 

 ish ; wing-lining, yellowish white. 



224 seat— Anthreptes hypogrammica, Mull. (3). 



Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province, and even there 

 rare. 



[Found in Tenasserin only, so far as I know in the vicinity of 

 the Pakchan, and thence it occurs, though everywhere a rare 

 bird, southwards to Johore and Singapore. 



In all its habits, mode of flight and voice, it is closely allied to 

 Anthreptes malaccensis, being more of an insect-eater and less 

 of a houeysucker than the Araclmotheras and Arachnechthras. 

 But while Anthreptes malaccensis swarms in every garden, the 

 present species occurs (mostly in pairs, though sometimes singly), 

 for the most part only in the forest or on its outskirts ; occasion- 

 ally of course it does occur in gardens where it may be seen, 

 haunting trees and shrubs that are in flower, feeding on the nec- 

 tar at times, but often hunting the foliage also for insects. The 

 note like that of A. malaccensis is a feeble chirrup. — W. D.] 



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



Males. — Length, 5*62 to 5'8 ; expanse, 8 to 8'25 ; tail from 

 vent, 2 to 2-12 ; wing, 2'55 to 2-66; tarsus, 055 to 0*7 ; bill 

 from gape, 085 to 1*0 ; weight, 0*4 to 05 oz. 



Females. — Length, 5*4 to 5'6 ; expanse, 7*62 to 7*75 ; tail from 

 vent, 1-85 to 2-12; wing, 2-4 to 2'55 ; tarsus, 0*6 to 0-62 ; bill 

 from gape, 0"85 to - 9; weight, 0*4 to 05 oz. 



The legs and feet are greenish brown or dark plumbeous green \ 

 the bill is horny black, and in the male the gape is dull yellow. 

 This may be the case also in the female, but Davison has not 

 noted it in the case of any of his specimens • the irides are dark 

 brown. 



The male has a narrow nuchal collar, the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, bright metallic steel blue ; the whole top and back 

 of the head olive green, the feathers obscurely centred 

 browner ; the sides of the head, back, scapulars and coverts, 

 a rather yellowish olive green ; the quills hair brown, margined 

 on the outer webs witn olive green, and the tertiaries with 

 the whole outer webs of this color ; tail blackish brown, 

 obsoletely rayed ; the two, or sometimes three, outer feathers 



