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uncommon. It keeps entirely to the evergreen forests, never that 

 I know of straying even to their outskirts. I have always met 

 with it in pairs ; it has a harsh grating metallic-sounding note. 

 Like the preceding it is a true Flycatcher in all its habits. — 

 W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded of this species : — ■ 



Males. — Length, 7*5 to 8-25 ; expanse, 11*5 to 12-25; tail 

 from vent, 337 to 3-82; wing, 3-63 to 39; tarsus, 0'6 to075; 

 bill from gape, 0*85 to l'O ; weight, 08 to nearly 1 oz. 



Females. — Length, 7-5 to 8-2 ; expanse, 10'75 to 12'12; tail 

 from vent, 3-2 to 3'62 ; wing, 3*5 to 3*75 ; tarsus, 0-7 ; bill 

 from gape, 0*9 to 0-95 ; weight, 07 to 0-8 oz. 



Legs and feet bluish or purplish black ; bill black j irides lake 

 to crimson. 



The male has the lores, a moderately broad frontal band, a 

 line round the eye, cheeks and greater parts of ear-coverts, chin 

 and extreme upper parts of throat, velvet black ; rest of throat 

 and upper parts of breast dull deep maroon ; the whole of 

 the rest of the plumage, except the inner webs of quills and 

 lateral tail feathers, which are blackish brown, a rather pale 

 clear leaden blue ; the breast and abdomen are a shade darker 

 and the white bases of the feathers, even in the best specimens 

 show through a good deal on the flanks and towards the vent. 



The female is rather smaller, and has the black and maroon 

 of the male replaced by dusky blackish cyaneous ; everywhere 

 the color is somewhat duskier and duller. 



290.-— Hypothymis azurea, Bodd. (28). 



Pahpoon ; Dargwiu ; Wirapong ; Topee ; Moulmein ; Yea-boo ; Meetan ■ Am- 

 herst ; Pabyin ; Mergui; Tenasserim Town ; Baukasoou. 



Common almost everywhere thoughout the province and 

 thence south along the Malay Peuinsula to its southernmost 

 extremity. 



291.— Leucocerca albicollis, Pieill. (5). 



(Karennee Rills, 4,000 feet, Rams.) Near Pahpoon ; Kyouk-nyafc; 2.000 feet 

 above Paraduba ; Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently to the forests of the outer Tenasserim 

 range and adjacent spurs, at elevations of from 2,000 to 6,000 

 feet. 



292.— Leucocerca albofrontata, Frarikl. 



Blyth notes this from Tonghoo ; we have met with it nowhere 

 in Tenasserim proper. 



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