238 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



344 ter.— Pitta cyanea, Blyth. (32). Descr. S. P., III., 



107. 



{Karen Sills, at 2,000 feet, Earns.) Dargwin ; Pahpoon ; Beeling 5 Tliatone; 

 Thenganee Sakan ; Assoon ; Mooleyit ; Meetan ; Amherst. 



Occurs throughout the northern and central portions of the 

 province, but is nowhere very common. 



[This species occurs in Tenasserim to, at any rate, as far 

 south as Tavoy, where I saw but failed to obtain it. It is nowhere 

 very numerous, but is most so in the north about Pahpoon, and 

 again further south about the bases of the south-western spurs 

 of Mooleyit. Where I found it in the north, it was frequenting 

 chiefly bamboo jungles; but I shot mauy in thin tree jungle 

 at Beeling and Meetan, and one I got at Ahmerst was also shot 

 in the tree jungle at the foot of the hills. In notes and habits 

 it resembles H. oatesi ; in fact it is impossible to distinguish 

 the notes of these two. Although occurring in the hills, even 

 high upon Mooleyit, they are rare there, and are more birds 

 of the plains than of the hills. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c., recorded from a large 

 series : — 



Males. — Length, 8*8 to9'4; expanse, J4 - 8 to 15*4; tail from 

 vent, 2*3 to 2'45 ; wing, 4*4 to 4*75; tarsus, 17 to 1*8; bill 

 from gape, 1*12 to 1'25; weight, 3'75 to 4*25 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 8*75 to 9"75 ; expanse, 15'0 to 15*12 ; tail 

 from vent, 21 to 2 # 6 ; wing, 4*5 to 4*6 ; tarsus, 1*7 to 1*8 ; bill 

 from gape, 1*2 ; weight, 3'5 to 4*25 ozs. 



Legs, feet, and claws fleshy white; sometimes tinged purplish ; 

 bill black ; gape fleshy white to yellowish brown ; irides deep 

 brown. 



344 quat. — ? Pitta ccerulea, Raff. (4). ? P. davisoni, 

 Hume. S. F., III., 321 n. 



Baukasoon. 



A rare visitant to the evergreen forests of the southern ex- 

 tremity of the province. 



[I first obtained this species on the 26th March in the ever- 

 green forests of Bankasoon, two males, on the same day ; 

 one I found, caught in one of my traps in the morning, the 

 second I shot as it was hopping along the forest path the same 

 evening. For a couple of months previously I had daily been 

 exploring these forests, but had never met with the bird, and it is 

 my belief that they had then only just arrived. From this 

 time up to my departure from Malewoon, in July, I on several 

 occasions saw the bird ; the most northern point at which I 

 observed it was near the village of Layuah, on the 16th of 



