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dead tree, or other commanding station, from which it constantly 

 makes short sallies after passing- insects, It is always seen sin- 

 gly.-W. D.J 



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



Males.—Length, 10*5 to 115 ; expanse, 16"12 to 175; 

 tail from vent, 5*4 to 5-9; wing, 5-36 to 5'8; tarsus, 0-65 to 

 0-75; bill from gape, I'l to 1*15; weight, 1-34 to 1*75 oz. 



Females.— Length, 10*12 to 11-0; expanse, 16-5 to 16-75 ; 

 tail from vent, 4-82 to 5'62; wing, 5'45 to 5'62; tarsus, 063 

 to 0-75 ; bill from gape, 1*1 to 115 ; weight, 1*45 to 1*5 oz. 



Legs, feet, claws, bill, and eyelids black ; hides pale lake to 

 crimson. 



Lores, eyelid feathers, a line above and below the eye, and a 

 broad patch behind the eye silky white ; a narrow frontal band 

 black ; crown, back and sides of the neck, and the whole of the 

 rest of the upper surface, (except the first and second primaries 

 and the tips of the later ones, and the outer webs of the outer 

 tail feathers, which are black or blackish dusky, and the shafts of 

 the tail feathers and quills which are brown), a beautiful clear 

 pale blue grey ; a little darker and bluer on the crown, where 

 there are faint traces of reflections, and paler and clearer on 

 the tail and wings ; extreme point of the chin, and feathers at 

 the base of the lower mandible, just in front of the gape, 

 dusky ; the rest of the lower parts the same delicate pale 

 grey, becoming almost white on the middle of the abdomen j 

 flanks and lower tail-coverts, axillaries and wing-lining pure 

 white, with the faintest possible grey tinge. 



Younger birds are darker coloured both above and below ; 

 in fact, have more of a plumbeous shade on the upper surface. 

 They want the white ear patch, but the lores, even in the 

 youngest birds that I have seen, were still sordid white, by 

 which they are distinguished at once from what I take to be the 

 true cineracea of Horsfield, which has dusky or black lores. 



The young birds of this present species were described by 

 Blyth under the name of cineracea, and his description will be 

 found, S. F., II, 210 n. 



When writing the note referred to, I said that cineracea, 

 Horsfield, was probably the same species, but I now know that 

 there is quite a distinct, extremely light grey, species, leucophaa, 

 which was probably Horsfield's bird, and to which I have 

 referred more in detail when dealing with B. longicaudala. 



282.— Chaptia senea, Vieill. (25). 



{Tongfioo, Karen Hills, Karennee, Rams.) Pahpoon ; Tlieinzeik ; Tbatone ; 

 Moulmein ; Meetan ; Letet ; Amherst ; Yea ; Meeta Myo ; Tavoy. 



If distinct from the next, confined to the northern and central 

 sections of the province. 



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