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BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



flowers. If there is a large tree in flower, some are certainly 

 to be met with about it, their foreheads all smeared with its 

 pollen. They are perfectly fearless birds. — W. D.j 



The following are the dimensions and colors of the soft parts 

 recorded in the flesh of 5 males and 1 female : — 



Males. — Length, 10*0 to 10-75 ; expanse, 14- 75 to 15-5 ; tail 

 from vent, 4-3 to 4"9 ; wing, 4-82 to 5'0; tarsus, 0'6 toO'75 ; bill 

 from gape, 1*2 to 1*3 ; weight, 1'5 to 2' oz. 



Female. — Length, 9'6 ; expanse, 14*0 ; tail from vent, 4*3 ; 

 wing, 4"6 ; tarsus, 0'68 ; bill from gape, 1*12, weight, 1*75 oz. 



Legs, feet, and bill varied from bright to deep coral red ; 

 irides dull crimson lake. 



I desire to withdraw my name of subniger ; a full description 

 "of the birds thus characterized will be found loc. cit. supra. 



No doubt the southern birds I thus designated are always 

 somewhat, in some cases, much darker than the Northern Pahpoon 

 birds, which agree precisely with Blyth's type ; but after careful 

 re-examination, I do not think that the difference is sufficient to 

 justify the separation, and I suppress the name subniger; and 

 unite all the Tenasserim Hill birds, alike southern and north- 

 ern, under Blyth's name. 



There are five nearly allied species of this genus, black, black- 

 grey, grey and black, all with black crested heads and red 

 bills and feet. 



f A. Entirely black. ... 1 jgr perniger, Swinh. 



*• *£* or Chief -J B . Black, with conspicu- 

 "' i ous grey margins to 

 ish al 



Hainan (China.) 



j quills and greyish abdo- . 



L men 2 S. mgemma, Gould. Formosa (China.) 



f C Dark grey, intersca- 

 pular region, black or 



3 H. concolor, Blyth. 



II. Grey or chief- 

 ly so ...1 



blackish 



D. Iron grey, intersca- 



pulary region, conco- 



lorous with back — 



a. Darker above 



and below, crest 



shorter, feathers 



more triangular 



and squamate 4 S. ganeesa, Sykes. 

 6. Lighter above and 

 below, crest long- 

 er, feathers more 

 linear and blend- 

 ing ... 5 H. psaroides, Vig. 



Khasia and Tenas- 

 Berim Hills, Yunan, 

 (China.) 



Hills of Southern 

 India and Ceylon. 



Himalayas from 

 Murree to 8ud- 

 dya in Assam. 



1 note that some specimens of the two last species, not fully 

 mature, are practically inseparable. 



447 bis.— Hypsipetes tickelli, Blyth. (19). 



(Karennee, 2,500 to 4,000 feet, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween ; Eyouk-nyat ; 

 Pahpoon ; Paraduba ; Mooleyit. 



