224 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



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



Males. — Length, 6'8 ; expanse, 10" to 10'12; tail from vent, 

 2-75 to 2-85 ; wing, 3-12 to 3'27; tarsus, 0-65 to 07 ; bill from 

 gape, 0*9 ; weight, 06 oz. 



Females. — Length, 6*75; expanse, 9 - 82 to 10; tail from 

 vent, 2*62 to 3*0 ; wing, 3 to 3*12 ; tarsus, 065 to 7 ; bill from 

 gape, 0-32 to 095; weight, 0-5 to 0'6 oz. 



In tlie males the legs, feet, and claws were pale purplish blue; 

 bill black ; irides crimson. 



In an adult female the legs, feet, and claws were plumbeous 

 olive ; the upper mandible pale horny brown ; the lower man- 

 dible fleshy white; iris dull red. In a younger female the legs 

 and feet were pale horny red, and the iris pale red, speckled 

 with white. 



The male has the entire head and neck all round, the upper 

 back and upper part of breast, and most of the lesser and 

 median coverts, pale dirty indigo blue, brightening a little on 

 the lores and more so in a stripe over, and extending a short 

 distance behind the eye ; a trace of a dusky spot at the gape 

 and base of the lower mandible ; rest of breast and lower parts 

 sordid white, with more or less of a fulvous or creamy tinge, and 

 shaded with earth brown on the sides ; middle of back mingled 

 blue and dull pale earth brown ; tips of some of the scapulars, 

 rump and upper tail coverts, pale earthy brown ; secondary greater 

 coverts, tertiaries, outer webs of secondaries, and tail, clear light 

 chestnut ; primary greater coverts dull bluish ; primaries and 

 inner webs of secondaries hair brown, the former margined on 

 their outer webs with pale greyish rusty. 



The female has the top, back, sides of the head and nape, an 

 extremely dull bluish greenish grey ; the entire back, scapulars, 

 lesser and median wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts, dull 

 earth brown, slightly olivaceous on the upper back and wing- 

 cc verts; chin, throat and breast fulvous white, more distinctly 

 bufly at the base of the throat ; rest of the lower parts as in 

 the male, but rather more fulvescent ; rest of wings and tail 

 as in the male. 



Edge of the wing and coverts immediately under it blue ; 

 rest of wing-lining in the male mingled grey aud creamy white ; 

 entire wing-lining of the female pale pinkish buff. 



289 quat.— Philentoma velatum, Tern. (18). 



Meetan ; Yea ; Tenasseriin Town ; Palaw-ton-tou ; Bankasoon j Malewoon. 



Occurs almost throughout the entire southern half of the 

 province in suitable forests, but rare, except in the extreme south. 



[This species ranges considerably to the north of Tavoy. I 

 shot a specimen at Meetan. Towards the south it was not 



