206 BIRDS OF TENASSEEIM. 



The following are the dimensions of the specimens measured 

 in the flesh by us from various parts of Tenasserim, north and 

 south : — 



Males. — Length, 7*75 to 8*3 ; expanse, 13* to 14*35 ; tail from 

 vent, 3 to 3*5 ; wing, 4*2 to 4*6 ; tarsus, 0*7 to 0*8 ; bill from 

 gape, 1*1 to 1*2 ; weight, 1* to 1*3 oz. 



Females. — Length, 7*79 to 8'62 ; expanse, 13 to 15*8 ; tail 

 from vent, 31 to 3*5 ; wing, 4*15 to 4*7 ; tarsus, 0*75 to 0*85 ; 

 bill from gape, 1*13 to 1*2; weight, 1*4 to 1*5 oz. 



In both sexes the legs and feet are plumbeous, (darker in 

 the male) and the irides yellowish brown, passing to wax 

 yellow ; the claws we have recorded as black in the male 

 and plumbeous in the female, but we have only noticed 

 this in three specimens, and it may not be constant. 



In the male the bill is black ; in the female the bill is 

 darker or lighter horny brown, paler, and sometimes pinkish, at 

 the base. 



In younger birds the legs and feet are dirty green or green- 

 ish brown. 



In the adult male, the lores, a line above and below the eye, 

 and a broad streak behind the eye, enveloping the upper portion 

 of the ear-coverts, are velvet black. 



In the females these parts are brown, darker behind the ear 

 and on the lores. In the young male they are as in the 

 female. 



Gularis from Sumatra and the Straits only differs in its 

 smaller size, greyer back, nearly unicolorous with the head, 

 much more marked grey, pectoral band, and purer and darker 

 brown tail and wing. 



A fine adult female shot at Johore measured : — Length, 

 7*35, expanse, 12*75; tail from vent, 3*0; wing, 4*25; tarsus* 

 0*7 ; bill from gape, 1*1 ; and weight, 1 oz. 



A young male had precisely the same dimensions, except 

 that the wing was only 4*0. It had the legs and feet pale 

 lavender; claws and lower mandible pale horny brown, and 

 the upper mandible dark brown. 



265. — Teplirodornis ponticeriana, Gm. 



Obtained at Tonghoo by Ramsay. Not observed elsewhere 

 as yet in Tenasserim. 



266.— Muscitrea grisola, Blyth. (5). Descr. S. F., II, 

 201; V., 101. 



Thatone ; Eolan Is. 



A rare visitant to the proviuce ; if common any where, only 

 in the islands of the Mergui Archipelago. 



