326 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



of the fore-neck, (proportionately much broader than injavensis) 

 velvet black. The usual violet blue mandibular stripe. The 

 black band on the fore-neck surrounded, more or less distinctly, 

 by a yellowish halo, in some barely perceptible, in others very 

 conspicuous. The whole of the rest of the plumage green ; de- 

 cidedly yellower on the breast in the neighbourhood of the 

 throat patch, and paler and more of a sap green on the abdo- 

 men and lower tail-coverts, and again more of a grass green on 

 the upper surface, deepest on the wings and tail. There is no 

 torquoise blue patch on the shoulder of the wing in either sex. 

 The inner webs of the quills are as usual deep hair brown. The 

 forehead, in many«pecimens, has a dingy yellow tinge, altogether 

 wanting in others ; but both this and the halo above referred to 

 seem to me more marked in Tenasserim specimens than in Malay- 

 an ones, of which we have collected a considerable series. 



The female wants the black of the male, and the more or less 

 distinct yellowish halo which surrounds this. The mandibular 

 stripe is paler, and in some a more verditer blue, and there is 

 usually less of the yellowish tinge than in the male. 



465.— Phyllornis aurifrons, Tem. (33). 



(Tongfioo, Karennee, Rams.) Kollidoo; Pahpoon; Khyketo; Thatone; Thoungya 

 Sakan ; Kaukaryit, Houngthraw R. ; Larthorgee ; Moulmein; Pabyouk; Tea-boo ; 

 Karope ; Amherst. 



Common throughout the province as far south as Amherst. 



The Tenasserim race of this species, which may be identical with 

 the true aurifrons, Tem., from Sumatra, is decidedly smaller and 

 less brilliant in its coloring, taking a large series of each bird, 

 than the Himalayan P. hodgsoni, Gray apud Gould. 



In the finest males of the Tenasserim birds, the wing does 

 not appear to exceed 3*75 ; in Himalayan specimens it runs up 

 to 4-1. 



The longest bill that I have met with in any Tenasserim 

 specimen measured straight from frontal bone to tip was 0*95, 

 and in Himalayan birds T15. 



Measured in the flesh fine males of the Himalayan bird are 8 

 to 8'2 long ; the finest Tenasserim specimen that we measured 

 was only 7*5 in length; moreover in the Tenasserim birds 

 the golden orange of the forehead is always less in extent, and 

 the o-olden yellow tinge that follows it never extends on to the 

 whole crown and part of the occiput, as it does in the finest 

 Himalayan specimens. Again, the yellow zone encircling the 

 base of the black throat patch is less bright and less broad 

 than in the Himalayan bird. 



Notwithstanding these differences conspicuous enough in the 

 finest adult males of the two races, many of the less fully-plu- 

 maged birds are scarcely separable ; and, unless aurifrons from 



