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flanks ; entire cap dark slaty grey, the darker browner centres 

 of the feathers showing through on the crown and occiput, 

 and producing there^ in fine specimens, a squtimated appear- 

 ance ; back, scapulars and rump a rather dull yellowish olive 

 green, sometimes brightening to yellow on the extreme tips of 

 the longest rump feathers ; upper tail-coverts and tail dull 

 brownish chestnut, with an ochraceous tinge on the former 

 and on the margins of the feathers of the latter towards 

 their bases ; both webs of tertiaries and outer webs of all the 

 feathers of the wing (the inner webs are hair brown) , a rufes- 

 cent brown, akin to the color of the tail, but brightening with 

 a yellower tinge on the margins of the secondaries and to a 

 less extent on those of the primaries. 



451 quint.— Criniger tristis, JBlyth. (9). 



Pakchan ; Bankasoon. 



Confined to open land and scrub jungle in the neighbourhood 

 of the Pakchan. 



[This species seems to avoid the forests, and affects 

 small clumps of trees or bushes, or patches of scrub jungle 

 in open or cultivated country. It is only seen singly or 

 in pairs, and is a very scarce bird, even where it does 

 occur, in the extreme south of Tenasserim. It is remark- 

 able that I have not yet met with this species anywhere 

 further south in the Peninsula. Its note is more that of 

 an Otocompsa, a whistled " kick pettigrew," and not a bit of the 

 chirping chatter of C. griseiceps and the other forest Crinigers. 

 The situations, too, in which you find it are rather those to which 

 Otocompsa would resort. Its food is the same as that of all the 

 preceding species. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, of this species recorded 

 in the flesh :— 



Males. — Length, 875 to 9'2 ; expanse, 12*25 to 12'5 ; tail 

 from vent, 3-62 to 3'82; wing, 3'82 to 3*9; tarsus, 075 ; bill 

 from gape, 0*85 ; weight, 1*5 oz. 



Females. — Length, 8"2 to 8*5; expanse, 1175 ; tail from 

 vent, 3*62 to 3*75 ; wing, 375 ; tarsus, 0*62 to 075 j bill from 

 gape, 0'9 to 0'95 ; weight, 1*5 oz. 



The legs and feet vary from dark grey brown or very dark 

 plumbeous brown, to black ; the bill black ; irides in the male 

 crimson, in the female varying from wood brown to litharge red. 



I may premise that this species varies a great deal in tint, 

 some are a great deal more olivaceous, and some a great deal 

 more rufescent. 



The entire lower parts are white, more or less suffused with 

 grey upon the breast, and faintly streaked or tinged on the 



