222 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



2nd. — Dissemurus paradiseus, Lin., with medium-sized crest, 

 and wing about 6 to 6'6, from the whole of Sonthern India and 

 Ceylon, the Western Ghauts, as far north as Khandeish, the great- 

 er part of Burma and Tenasserim, the Andamans and Nicobars. 



3rd. — D. platurus, Vieill., from the southern portion of the 

 Malay Peninsula, practically without any crest, and with a wing 

 about 5*4 to 5-8. 



Ceylonensis is certainly not separable, and the specimen from 

 which Mr. Sharpe took his figure of the racket of this species 

 is certainly not a fair average one. So again the head that 

 he figures of D. qffinis is clearly immature. Old adults have crests 

 quite as long as the majority of Central Tenasserim speci- 

 mens, though never as long as the longest crested specimens 

 of these latter. 



Javan and Sumatran races seem to be universally admitted 

 (I have too few specimens of my own to offer any opinion on 

 the subject) to be inseparable from that inhabiting the south 

 of the Malay Peninsula, and the only question that appears to 

 me to remain for decision is, whether the Bornean race bracliy- 

 phorus, Tem., is or is not entitled to specific separation on 

 account of its alleged constantly smaller racket. 



286.— Chibia hottentota, Lin. (8). 



{TongTioo Sills, Karen Hills, Earns.) Pahpoon ; Salween R. ; Amherst ; 

 Mergui; Bopjin. 



Rather sparsely distributed throughout the province, except 

 in the southernmost district, where it has not been observed. 



[This bird is very rare as a whole ; and, though in one parti- 

 cular spot you may see 20 or even 50, you may march as 

 many miles further through precisely similar localities without 

 catching a glimpse of another. It is in fact excessively locally 

 distributed. About a couple of days' march north of Kaukaryit, 

 on the road to Pahpoon, I found it excessively common in a 

 narrow tract of country about half a mile long, and almost 

 entirely covered with bamboo ; neither to the north nor south of 

 this tract for some 50 miles did it again occur, except as a strag- 

 gler usually singly. On another occasion to the north of Pahpoon 

 I found great numbers frequenting some large silk-cotton trees 

 that were in flower. To the south of Moulmein I met with it occa- 

 sionally, but never in any numbers. The furthest point south at 

 which I obtained it was Bopyin, about half way between Mergui 

 and Moulmein. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions of two males and two females 

 recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 12-0 to 13*25; expanse, 19*5 to 21*12 j 

 tail from vent, 5*5 to 6*62 ; wing, 6'46 to 7*0; tarsus, 1*1 to 

 1-12; bill from gape, 1-62 to 175. 



