274 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



body mingled with grey ; wing-lining", inner margins of the 

 quills, except towards the terminal portions of the primaries, 

 pale salmon buff. Three or four very large and conspicuous 

 black bristles spring from the middle of the lores, which quite 

 at their bases are whitish. 



396 #wm^— Malacopteron magnirostris, Moore. (16). 



Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon; Malewoon. 



Common at the extreme south of the province. 



[This species is usually found in small parties, hunting about 

 the brushwood and tops of the smaller trees for insects. I 

 have never seen it descend to the ground. Occasionally I have 

 seen them in pairs or singly, but always restless, moving from 

 one branch to the other. I have also seen them occasionally 

 seize insects on the wing after the manner of Flycatchers. I 

 cannot remember having heard their note. 



I never found anything but insects in the stomachs of those 

 I dissected. I found this species common in the Malay Penin- 

 sula right down to its southern extremity. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh from 

 a large series of this species, which, though classed as an 

 A Icippe, by Moore, is, I should say, clearly a Malacopteron closely 

 allied to ferruginosum : — 



Males. — Length, 7-0 to 7'25 ; expanse, 9'75 to 10'0; tail 

 from vent, 2'75 to 3'25 ; wing, 3-1 to 3-35 ; tarsus, 0-82 to0-9; 

 bill from gape, 082 to 0-85 ; weight, 08 oz. 



Females. — Length, 6'4 to 662 ; expanse, 9*25 to 9*5 ; tail 

 from vent, 2*5 to 2'62 ; wing, 2*82 to 2 -9; tarsus, 0'82 to 

 0-9 ; bill from gape, 0'8 to 0-82 ; weight, 075 oz. 



Legs, feet, and claws pale bluish, sometimes a little darker 

 and more plumbeous ; upper mandible dark horny brown, 

 almost black in some ; lower mandible bluish white, pale blue or 

 plumbeous ; gape dull yellow ; irides red, varying from cinnabar 

 to lake, and lake to crimson. 



The lores and the extreme point of the forehead and a stripe 

 over the eye pale grey, or greyish white ; eyelid feathers white ; 

 an ill-defined dusky ash stripe from the base of the lower man- 

 dible down the sides of the throat; the basal portions of the 

 exterior frontal feathers greyish ; the feathers of the rest of 

 the forehead, crown and occiput, grey brown, dark shafted, 

 more or less broadly overlaid towards the margins with an 

 olivaceous tint ; ear-coverts greyish brown, sometimes with an 

 olivaceous tinge, more or less obscurely pale-shafted towards 

 their bases. 



Back, scapulars and nape clear light olive brown ; lower part 

 of back and rump and shorter upper tail-coverts the same, 



