282 BIRDS OF TENASSEEIM. 



We only measured two specimens of this species, both males, 

 of which the following are the dimensions, colors of the soft 

 parts, &a, recorded in the flesh : — 



Length, 9'6, lO'O ; expanse, 11*7, 120; tail from vent, 4-2; 

 wing, 3-8, 39 ; tarsus, 1*35, 1*4; bill from gape, 1*12; 

 weight, 2 '5 oz. 



The legs and feet are a pale greenish brown, sometimes a dingy 

 brownish green ; bill vermilion *ed ; irides creamy white. 



The lores, the feathers immediately under and behind the eye, 

 ear-coverts, and some of the feathers behind the ear-coverts, form- 

 ing together a broad patch on the side of the head and neck, 

 black. 



A line from the nostrils, over the eye, and over the black 

 patch above referred to, rufescent white just where it impiuges 

 on the nostrils, elsewhere pure white ; a narrow frontal band con- 

 tinued, further diminished in breadth, on either side as a boundary 

 to this white stripe throughout its entire length, black ; chin, 

 throat and feathers on the sides of the base of the lower man- 

 dible, generally pure white, occasionally a little patched here and 

 there with fulvous ; front and sides of neck behind the black 

 patch, breast and greater portion of abdomen, delicate pale huffy; 

 the sides of the breast, the sides of the abdomen, sides, flanks, 

 and lower tail-coverts pure olive brown, the latter with a slight- 

 ly more rufescent tinge ; tibial plumes somewhat rufescent brown. 



Wing-liniug partly brown, partly unicolorous with the inner 

 margins of the quills, which are a sort of pale salmon buff; 

 rest of lower surface of quills glossy hair brown ; coverts just 

 under the carpal joint greyish brown ; lower surface of tail fea- 

 thers yellowish olive brown. 



Entire top of head and nape, inside the black frontal band 

 and its lateral continuation, a rich rufescent, or perhaps some- 

 what ochraceous olive brown ; back, scapulars, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts very similar, but not quite so brightly colored, or 

 ■with so much of the ochraceous tint ; wings hair brown ; all 

 the feathers suffused on their outer webs, and the tertiaries 

 on both webs, with the same color as the head, or a slightly more 

 rufescent shade of the same ; the outer w 7 ebs of the earlier 

 primaries, below the emarginations, being decidedly yellower 

 and more of a fawny brown than the rest of the wing ; tail a 

 slightly rufescent brown, tinged olive, and margined strongly 

 towards the bases with the same color as the upper tail-coverts. 



403.— Pomatorhinus leucogaster, Gould. (7). 



Pine forests, Salween ; Pahpoon ; Head waters of Thoungyen ; Younzaleen 

 Creek ; Thatone. 



Confined to the hills on the north-eastern portions of the 

 province. 



