202 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



or in pairs. They are always busy, working up and down, 

 and round and round the branches and trunks of trees, standing 

 and fallen ; sometimes even foraging in brushwood ; always like 

 the rest of the Sittas coming down head foremost, never 

 tail foremost, as some Woodpeckers will • feeding exclusively 

 on insects • often hammering away at the bark, like a little Sasia, 

 and constantly uttering a sharp chick, chick, chick, rapidly re- 

 peated as they work about, but not as they fly. — W. D.] 



254 bis.— -Upupa longirostris, Jerd. (33). Descr. S. P., 

 III., 89. 



(Tonglioo, Rams.) Eollidoo j Pahpoon ; Tlieinzeik; Thatone; Wiinpong ; 

 Moulmein ; Amherst ; Pakchan. 



Common throughout the province in suitable localities. 



[This bird entirely avoids forests, and even the more densely- 

 wooded portions of the cultivated country. It is spread over 

 the whole province, but keeps to the open gardens, fields, grass 

 lands, &c. I found it very common in the plains country lying 

 between the Salween and Sittang rivers ; it was also very nu- 

 merous on the banks of the Pakchan all about Nallansine 

 (known generally as Pakchan) and Kraw, where there is a good 

 deal of cultivation and waste ground, only very sparingly dot- 

 ted with trees, and little or no herbage of any kind. I have 

 not yet noticed this any further south in the Malay Penin- 

 sula.— W. D.] 



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



Males.— Length, 12-13 to 12 "5 ; expanse, 17-0 to 1825 ; tail 

 from vent, 3-83 to 4*25; wing, 5-15 to 5-62; tarsus, 0'82; bill 

 from gape, 2-62 to 2'8 ; weight, 2'5 oz. 



Females. — Length, 11*5 to 11*75 ; expanse, 16*25 to 17*35 ; 

 tail from vent, 40 to 4*12 ; wing, 5*25 to 5*35 ; tarsus, - 8 to 

 0-95 ; bill from gape, 22 to 2*46 * weight, 2*5 to 2*75 oz. 



Legs and feet pale dull slaty or plumbeous blue • bill horny 

 brown ; lower mandible to angle of gonys and upper mandible 

 to nostrils, fleshy pink ; irides dark red brown. 



258.—-Lanius tephronotus, Vig. (1). 



Kyouk-nyat. 



Only a straggler to the northern portion of the province. 

 Davison never saw any but the single specimen he shot. 



259. — Lanius nigriceps, Frankl. (5). 



(Tongfioo, Rams.) Pine forests, Salween ; Pahpoon ; Younzaleen Creek ; 

 Khyketo. 



Confined to the northern half of the province, and even there 

 uncommon. 



