18S BIRDS OF TENASSEItlM. 



In the female a narrow line from the nostrils to the anterior 

 angle of the eye, and eyelid feathers, greenish white ; entire up- 

 per parts, except wings and tail, dull olive green, greyer about 

 the nape, yellower on the upper tail-coverts ; feathers of the 

 crown obscurely brown-centred in some specimens, producing 

 a slight scaly appearance ; wings aud tail hair brown ; cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of the neck unicolorous with the nape, 

 but with traces of a dark line under the orbit ; entire lower 

 parts dull pale yellowish green, brightening to pale yellow on 

 the middle of the breast and abdomen ; wing-lining nearly pure 

 white, with here and there a faint yellow tinge ; wings and tail 

 hair brown, the feathers narrowly margined on the outer webs 

 with an olive yellow, much the color of the upper tail-coverts. 



The young males are very like the females, but are a darker 

 and more olive green above ; the wing margins are more rufes- 

 cent, and the chin, throat and upper breast are overlaid with 

 a faint ochreous shade, and they want the pure yellow of the 

 middle of the abdomen. 



233 quat. — Anthreptes simplex, S. Mull. (6). ? 

 Descr. S. F., III., 320 n. 



Pabyin ; Tenasseriin Town ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the extreme south of the province. 



[A very rare bird, whose habits I have had no opportunity of 

 observing as, unlike many of the rarer Tenasserim forms, I 

 never met with this further south in the Malay Peninsula. 

 One I shot was hunting about in the topmost branches of a 

 large tree in open jungle.- — TV. D.] 



The specimen described by me, loc. tit. sup. as A. xaathoclilora, 

 has been pronounced by Captain Shelley to be the female of 

 this species. Another female subsequently obtained is still 

 smaller, and has the wing only 2'0. It seems almost incre- 

 dible that this tiny bird should be the female of simplex, but 

 it may be a young female. 



The adult males are much larger. 



Length, 4*75 to 5*25 ; expanse, 7*37 to 7'75 ; tail from vent, 

 1-82 to 2-0 ; wing, 2-38 to 2'4; tarsus, 0'6 ; bill from gape, 

 0-65 to 0-67. 



The legs and feet were pale dirty green ; the bill dark horny 

 brown ; the irides wood brown. 



As for the plumage, the description given in the case of the 

 female, will apply precisely, except that the lower surface of the 

 male is pale greenish grey, rather than pale green, and that the 

 male has a small black frontal patch, glossed with metallic 

 green. Note that the outermost pair of tail feathers are 0"15 

 shorter than the rest, and not 105 as misprinted loc. cit. 



