290 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh :— 



Males. — Length, 11 to 11*75 ; expanse, 1382 ; to 14*75 ; tail 

 from vent, 4*75 to 5*1 ; wings, 4*37 to 4*82 ; tarsus, 1*62 to 1*75 ; 

 bill from gape, 1*3; weight, 325 to 375 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 11*25 to 11*75 ; expanse, 13*5 to 14*82 ; 

 tail from vent, 4*62 to 5- 25 ; wing, 4*62 to 4*8 ; tarsus, 1*62 to 

 1*7 ; bill from gape, 1*25 to 1*3 ; weight, 3*12 to 4*0 ozs. 



The legs, feet and claws varied from reddish horn y, or reddish 

 brown, to dark reddish brown ; bill black ; irides red brown, deep 

 brown, dull carmine, and deep carmine. 



A broad frontal band, lores, a rather narrow band round the 

 eye continued backwards over the ear-coverts, feathers at the 

 base of the lower mandible, chin, throat, and a very broad band 

 down the centre of the neck in front, right on to the breast, 

 velvet black ; a row of pointed feathers just above the frontal 

 band, white, or greyish white tipped white ; rest of crown, 

 occiput and nape a blue slaty grey, shading a little at the 

 base of the nape into the olive of the back ; back, scapulars, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts uniform olive brown ; in some a 

 pure olive ; in others more or less rufescent ; wings hair brown, 

 the earlier primaries with the outer webs grey or greyish 

 white; the rest of the feathers, with their outer webs, 

 and the tertiaries, with both webs, overlaid with the same 

 olive as the back, i.e., purer or more or less rufescent, as the 

 case may be, like the back ; usually the winglet and some 

 of the earlier primary greater coverts a little shaded with 

 grey towards their margins; tail olive brown, concolorous 

 with the back, obscurely rayed, with the terminal portions, more 

 or less blackish brown, and with more or less of this color show- 

 ing through or superseding the olive on the lateral tail feathers 

 throughout, especially on their inner webs, and in some speci- 

 mens nearly the whole of the three outer pairs blackish brown ; 

 all the tail feathers, except the central pair, and sometimes even 

 these to a small extent, tipped paler, the tippings scarcely visi- 

 ble on the upper surface, but much more distinct on the lower ; 

 the greater part of cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of throat pure 

 white, forming a large broad oval patch ; below this the sides 

 of the neck and the entire breaet grey, often very pure and clear, 

 sometimes a little suffused with brown. This grey shades on 

 the upper abdomen into the olive brown of the lower abdomen, 

 flanks, tibial plumes, and lower tail-coverts ; there are often, 

 in fact generally, a few pale ferruginous feathers about the vent; 

 the wing-lining is a mixture of olive brown and grey. 



The black throat stripe often becomes, just when it joins the 

 breast, a deep burnt sienna brown ; the lower surface of the tail, 

 except the tipping, is black, often paling however a little towards 

 the bases ; the grey of the cap is somewhat variable in shade ; in 



