BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 315 



bill from gape, 0-95 to 1 ! 05 ; bill from forehead to tip, 0-8 to 

 0*88 ; weight, 0-8 to 1 oz. 



Our specimens were all killed in August and September, and 

 the colors of the soft parts were very variable. It is possible 

 that these vary in summer and winter, and that our birds were 

 obtained just when the change was going on. Legs and feet 

 pale plumbeous to pale pinkish brown; claws pale reddish 

 brown ; upper mandible very dark brown ; lower mandible, in birds 

 with pale plumbeous legs and feet, salmon fleshy shaded near 

 tip with pale plumbeous ; in birds with legs and feet pinkish 

 brown, pale whitish brown ; irides, pinky grey to slaty pink. 



Bill, as in the other species, rather elongated, sharply carinat- 

 ed ; culmen nearly straight, rather suddenly curved downwards 

 near the tips ; feathers of forehead and head pointed. 



Cap dark olive brown, in many specimens with a very sub- 

 dued, almost obsolete, dull ferruginous tinge, very faint, but still 

 recognizable when placed alongside a pure olive brown ; entire 

 mantle dark olive brown, decidedly more olive and less brown 

 than on the head ; upper tail-coverts and tail brown, with a 

 distinct, though dull, ferruginous tinge ; the former everywhere, 

 the latter chiefly towards their bases, margined with rusty 

 olivaceous; the wings hair brown, not unfrequently with a 

 tinge of the color of the tail-feathers ; the primaries and 

 their coverts margined, the rest of the feathers of the win a- 

 overlaid, with a slightly browner, perhaps I should say more 

 rufescent, olive than the back ; lores a pale olive or greenish 

 grey ; a stripe of the same color, scarcely visible in the dried skin, 

 running. for about 025 inch backwards from the top of the 

 eye ; cheeks and ear-coverts a shade greener and duskier ; 

 chin and throat greyish white, with a yellowish tinge ; sides 

 of breast and flanks a sort of greyish olive brown or grey ; 

 middle of breast similar but mingled with pale yellow ; mid- 

 dle of abdomen and vent almost entirely this color ; lower 

 tail-coverts very pale yellow, but a different shade from that 

 of the middle of the abdomen ; the latter is intermediate be- 

 tween pale primrose and cream color; in the lower tail- 

 coverts there is a faint ochraceous shade, and the feathers show 

 more or less of pale grey brown centres. The wing-lining 

 and axillaries are very pale yellow, or white, tinged with 

 yellow, almost approaching to primrose ; the margins of the 

 quills on the under surface are greyish white. 



452 dec— Iole viridescens, Blyth. (40). 



(Tonghoo, Lloyd ; Ka^en Rills, Rams.) Kollido© ; Kyouk-nynfc ; Palipoon ; 

 Thatone; Thoungsheyen Sakan; Assoon ; Meetan ; Amherst; Yea; Mergui ; 

 Tenasserim Town; Pakchan; Bankasoon; Malewoon. 



Common throughout the better-wooded portions of the entire 

 province, but not ascending the higher hills. 



