182 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



The whole metallic portion of the head is here grey brown, and 

 this is the color of the nape and upper back also. The central 

 tail feathers are not fully developed, but the visible portions of 

 them about 1*25 in inch length show no metallic colors. 



The lores, cheeks, ear-coverts are black, with a little grey 

 speckling under the eye ; only one or two of the very longest 

 uppermost ear-coverts exhibit specks of metallic puce color ; 

 in other respects the bird does not differ from the adults. 



Unfortuuately, I have no female to describe. I sent the 

 only one we procured to Captain Shelley, and I quote his de- 

 scription, which, although our descriptions of the males do not 

 exactly agree, is, I doubt not, most complete: — 



" Adult Female. — Upper parts olive-green, rather browner on 

 the head and neck ; wings dark brown ; the feathers broadly 

 edged with olive-green of a yellow shade on the quills ; a 

 broad dull patch on the lower back ; tail dark brown ; the fea- 

 thers edged with olive and tipped with white, most broadly 

 towards the outer feathers; under-parts uniform, very pale 

 olive; under-surface of the wings dark brown, with the inner 

 margins of the quills and the coverts white ; bill and legs dark 

 brown. Total length, 3-5 inches; culmen 06; wing, 1*7 ; tail, 

 1-3; tarsus, 0'55." 



231 his. — iEthopyga sanguinipectus, Wald. (9). 

 Descr. S. E., Ill, 402; V., 51, 71 ».* 



(Karennee, 2,500— 3,000 feet, Earns.) Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently in Tenasserim to the higher portions of 

 Mooleyit and Karennee. 



[I only observed this species on the higher slopes of Mooleyit, 

 not below 3,000 feet elevation. It is a forest bird, frequenting 

 flowering trees, with much the same habits as cava, not nearly 

 so shy as dabryi, and much more given to settling quietly. Where 

 I met with it, it was moderately common. Its note is the usual 

 JEawpyga " chirp." I noticed nothing in any way peculiar about 

 its habits.— W. D.] 



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



Males. — Length, 5'3to5'9 to end of central tail feathers; 

 expanse, 6"4 to 6 - 5 ; tail from vent, 2'55 to 2*9 to end of central 

 feathers; wing, 2*05 to 2*12 ; tarsus, 0"55 ; bill from gape, 0*75 

 to 0-82; weight, 0-2 to 0-25 oz. 



Female. — Length, 39 ; expanse, 5 - 7 ; tail from vent, 1*1 ; 

 wing, 1\8; tarsus, 0*5 ; bill from gape, 075 ; weight, 0"2 oz. 



* I renamed this species 2E. waldeni. The Marquis of Tweeddale has recently 

 been pleased to sneer at me for this. This is noteworthy, because it was solely the 

 extreme incorrectness of his own original description, that led me to believe that I 

 had secured a new, though nearly allied species. 



