272 BIEDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Female. — Length, 67 to 6*82 ; expanse, 975 to 1012 ; tail, 

 2-7 to 2-8; wing, 3'2 to 325; tarsus, 0'8 to 0*9; bill from 

 gape, 0*8 ; weight, 0*75 to 08 oz. 



The legs and feet and claws are blue, varying in shade from 

 pale plumbeous to pale smalt blae ; the upper mandible is 

 dark horny brown ; the lower mandible and often edges of upper 

 mandible are plumbeous blue, or white, tinged with blue, fading 

 to bluish white at the tip ; the irides vary from carmine to orange 

 red, I think according to age, as a younger bird has them pale 

 sienna brown. 



The lores, a narrow band on the forehead, and the feathers 

 round the eye, are pale bluish grey ; the latter dotted with white; 

 the rest of the forehead and crown deep ferruginous ; occiput 

 and nape black ; ear-coverts and sides of the neck, and upper 

 back immediately below the black nape, slightly olivaceous 

 ashy ; entire mantle and visible portion of the closed wings, 

 (except primary greater coverts, which are blackish brown) oli- 

 vaceous brown, rather greyer on the interscapulary region, 

 and more rufescent on the rump ; inner webs of quills hair 

 brown ; upper tail-coverts rather deep ferruginous ; central tail 

 feathers, and outer webs of lateral ones, rufescent brown, mar- 

 gined more ferruginous ; inner webs of laterals less rufous ; 

 the feathers of the ear-coverts in many specimens are paler 

 shafted ; chin, throat, and entire lower parts white ; the chin, 

 throat, breast, and sides streaked with pale ashy ; flanks tinged 

 olivaceous ; tibial plumes with ashy olivaceous brown ; edge of 

 the wing just at the base of the primaries white ; wing-lining 

 and axillaries pale ashy. 



M. einereum, Eyton ; M. magnum, Eyton, apud auct. nee Ey- 

 ton. Male. — Unfortunately only one measured in flesh : — Length, 

 675; expanse, 9'5; tail, 2*75 ; wing, 3'12 ; tarsus, 08 ; bill 

 from gape, 0"8 ; weight, 0'75 oz. 



Females. — Length, 5*75 to 5*82 ; expanse, 8"5 to 875 ; tail, 

 2-25 to 2-5 ; wing, 27 to 2"8 ; tarsus, 075 to 08 ; bill from 

 gape, 07 to 075 ; weight, 0'5 to 0-6 oz. 



The legs, feet, and claws are fleshy white, with in some speci- 

 mens a bluish tinge ; the eyelids pale greenish yellow ; the 

 upper mandible varies from black to pale brown, according, I 

 think, to season ; the lower mandible from fleshy white to pale 

 yellowish ; the gape always yellowish ; the irides light red to 

 carmine, in a younger specimen grey brown. 



In plumage this species differs but little from the preceding, 

 but the feathers of the crown are always conspicuously black- 

 tipped ; the sides of the head are more olivaceous ; the ear-coverts 

 as a rule, distinctly shafted with pale fulvous ; the chin and throat 

 are almost unstreaked ; the breast is more feebly blotched 

 with a more olivaceous grey, and the sides are darker ; moreover, 



