220 BIRDS OP TENASSERIM. 



Sittang River, near Guaybenzike Channel, 6*4 ; 

 Thatone, 6*3. 



Wimpong, 6-27 ; 6; 6'2 ; 6*6; 62 ; frG. 

 Moulmein, 5'85 j 6-2 ; 6-25. 

 Yea-boo, Attaran R., 6'3. 

 Pabyouk, Attaran R., 6-25. 



Amherst, 6-45, 5*6 \ 6-4 ; 6-3 \ 6-3 ; 6'6 ; 6'3 ; 62 ; 5'9 ; 5"9 ; 

 6-2. 



Karope, 6 "4 ; 61. 

 Yea 6"2. 



Tavoy, 6-0 ; 6-0 ; 6'27 ; 6-0 ; 6-1 ; 61 ; 60 ; 6-0 ; 6-25 ; 5*8 ; 

 6-1; 6-1. 



(Hills) Meeta My o, 6-4; 5-9; 6-1. 

 Shymootee, 6' 15. 



Tenasserim Town, 6"3 ; 6'3; 5*95. 

 Mergui, 5-8 ; 5-85. 



Pakchan, 5-8; 5'9 ; 5'85; 5/8; 577; 5-8. 

 I add for purposes of comparison the dimensions of a few spe- 

 cimens from the south of the Malay Peninsula. 

 Malacca, 5'6 ; 5-7; 5-8; 5'6 ; 5-7; 5"5. 

 It will be observed that the specimens from Pahpoon to far 

 below Tavoy continued pretty uniform in dimensions, but that 

 from Mergui they are much reduced in size, scarcely exceed- 

 ing at all the dimensions of Malayan platurus ; but though thus 

 reduced in size, and though exhibiting very much smaller crests 

 than birds from the rest of Tenasserim, they yet have a very 

 appreciable frontal crest which divides them at a glance from 

 birds obtained in the south of Malay Peninsula. 



With this large Tenasserim series I have compared an equally 

 large series from Southern India and the Malabar Coast, and I 

 am quite convinced that these are not separable, and that mala- 

 baricus must be united with paradiseus. 



The following are the dimensions of wings of a small number of 

 specimens of the Malabar bird, taken at random. 

 Hills north of Khandeish, 66. 

 Mysore, 5'8. 

 Nilghiris * 6 3 ; 6'2. 

 Kotagherry, 6*1. 

 Kullar, 59 ; 6'0 ; 6'4. 

 Coonoor, 6 "05. 

 Goodalore Wynaad, 5'9. 

 Coorg, 6*25. 



Tra van core, Anjanjo, 5'9 ; 5' 8. 

 Mynaal, 6'2 ; 6. 



* Exact locality not specified — Kotagherry, Kullar and Coonoor, are of course all 

 on the Nilgherris. 



