196 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



The specimens entered in my first list (S. F., II., 473) as 

 virescens, Hume, prove on examination to belong to this present 

 species. 



The following are dimensions, &c, of two males and one 

 female recorded in the flesh :— 



Mules. — Length, 3'2 to 3*45 ; expanse, 5*7 to 5*82 ; tail from 

 vent, 0*9 ; wing, 1*7 to 1*8 ; bill from gape, 0"4 to 0'46. 



Female. — Length, 35; expanse, 5"75 ; tail from vent, 1*0; 

 wing, 1*75. 



Legs and feet very dark plumbeous ; upper mandible and tip 

 of lower mandible very dark brown or black ; rest of lower 

 mandible pale plumbeous ; irides deep brown. 



238.— Dicseum erythrorhyncha, Lath. (l). 



Blyth says (B. of B., p. 143) : "Exceedingly abundant in the 

 jungles near Moulmein." They doubtless must be so, but it can 

 only be at one particular season, as Bingham and Davison 

 have hunted these jungles, day after day, for weeks at a time, 

 the former only obtaining it, and then only a single specimen. 

 Davison, during four years of constant collecting work, has 

 never seen this species anywhere, as yet, in Tenasserim. 



240 quat.— Prionochilus percussus, Tern,, (l) 



Bankasoon. 



A mere straggler at the extreme south of the province. 



[Though I obtained only one specimen in Tenasserim, I had 

 ample opportunities of observing this species in the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



It has much the same sharp note as the Vicceums have, and 

 very similar habits. It is generally seen in pairs or singly, 

 never in flocks, feeding by preference on the fruit of various 

 Loranths. They may often be seen working in and out amongst 

 the smaller branches of trees, and the tufts of parasites hang- 

 ing to these ; but I have never seen them in brushwood or near 

 the ground. They do partly eat insects, but only I think when 

 they can find no small berries, for though they vastly prefer 

 that of the Loranth, they apparently eat any small fruit that 

 they can find — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions recorded in the flesh :■ — 



Males. — Length, 3*6 to 4 - ; expanse, 6'25 to 7"0 ; tail from 

 vent, 1*05 to 1'35; wing, 2-05 to 2-2 ; tarsus, 0-5 to 0'55 ; bill 

 from gape, 0*4 to 0'5 ; weight, 0*25 to 0'3 oz. 



A fully adult female measured : — 



Length, 3*75 ; expanse, 6*4; tail from vent, 1*0 ; wing, 1*9; 

 tarsus, 0'5 .; bill from gape, 04; weight, 0"26 oz. 

 ■ 'The male has a patch of bright scarlet, beginning about the 

 middle of the forehead, and occupying the centre of the crown. 



