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The following are dimensions, &c, of one male and three 

 females recorded in the flesh : — 



Male. — Length, 6 5 ; expanse, 10 5; tail from vent, 2 '9 ; wing, 

 3 - 5 ; bill from gape, 08 ; weight, 0"75 oz. 



Females. — Length, 6'12 to 66; expanse, 10"2 to 10*5 j tail 

 from vent, 2'5 to 2-75 ; wing, 3*2 to 3-37; tarsus, 0"76 to 0-8 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'76 to 0'8 ; weight, just over 0'75 oz. 



Legs and feet dull dirty smalt; claws paler; in the male the 

 bill was black ; in the female the upper mandible was pale brown ; 

 the lower mandible fleshy brown, in one pale plumbeous ; irides 

 deep brown or dark red brown. 



266 bis.— Muscifcrea cyanea, Hume. (2). Descr. S. F., 

 V., 101. June 1877. 



Niltava (!) leucura, Tweed. A. & M. N. H., August 1877, p. 95. 

 (Taoo 5,000 ft., Limborg.) Meetan. 



A rare straggler to the forests of the lower eastern hills, pro- 

 bably from Siam. 



[This is eminently a forest bird. I only met with it on the 

 lower south-western spurs of Mooleyit. 



I only saw males singly. They live on insects, which I have 

 once or twice seen them seize on the wing like Flycatchers. 

 They are very restless birds, and move about through the trees 

 constantly, never descending to the ground. When resting for 

 a moment they have a habit of rapidly expanding the tail 

 so as to show the white in it, much as Myiomela leucura does. 

 I did not hear them utter any note, and I never saw a female. — 

 W. D.] 



Although the Marquis of Tweeddale has called his bird a Nil* 

 tava, to which genus the species cannot possibly be assigned, 

 (see my remarks at the bottom of p. 103, vol. Y), the dimen- 

 sions and description leave no doubt that his bird and mine, 

 both, by the way, collected within a score of miles of each 

 other, are identical. 



267. — Hemipus picatus, Syhes. (18). 



{Tongfioo, Karennee at 1,500 feet, Earns.) Kyouk-nyat; Pahpoon ; Salween R. » 

 Myawadee ; Meetan ; Amherst ; Lemyne ; Tavoy ; Bopyin ; Pakchan ; Bankasooir 



Generally diffused throughout the province, but nowhere 

 very abundant. 



[Generally met with in pairs or small parties of four to 

 six on the outskirts of forests, or in thin tree jungle, and occa- 

 sionally in gardens when these are near the forest. 



They are rather Flycatchers than Shrikes in their habits, mov- 

 ing about, no doubt, amongst the leaves at the tops of trees like 



