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description, which I quote below, is accurate, and well describes 

 one stage of this bird's plumage. He says : — 



"The following are the dimensions of my specimen: — 

 "Length, 5*5 ; wing, 2-95 ; tail, 1*75 ; tarsus, 1 ; bill from 

 front, 495 ; spread foot, l - 25 ; extent, 8*5 inches. The general 

 colour above is olive-brown, with a slight tinge of rufous on the 

 upper wing-coverts ; the fourth quill of the wiug is the longest, 

 with the third nearly equal to it ; the tail is slaty blue and 

 nearly square, the inner webs with more of a brownish tinge ; 

 the upper tail-coverts are slaty blue ; the throat and breast 

 white, with pencillings of brown, which increase towards the 

 flanks and under the wings ; the abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 pure white ; the bill brown ; legs fleshy ; a brownish- white 

 eye-lid." 



512.— Calliope kamschatkensis, Gm. (3). 



(Karennee, Rums.) Puhpoon ; WimpoDg. 



A cold weather straggler to the more open tracts of the 

 northern portions of the province. 



[I have met with this bird but seldom, and then always in. 

 thick grass; the three specimens I obtained in Tenasserim I 

 flushed from thick grass clumps. The birds appear to lie very 

 close, and will not rise till one almost treads upon them. The 

 only one that I examined had eaten a few insects. — W. D.] 



I may note that elsewhere this bird by no means keeps to 

 thick grass, though 1 have seen it in this. It is particularly 

 abundant towards the end of the cold season in the neighbour- 

 hood of Calcutta, especially near the salt lakes, and there you 

 see it hopping about on the open canal banks and on the heaps 

 of Unio shells and stones, like a Saxicola, quite fearlessly, and 

 without any care apparently for cover of any kind. 



514 — Cyanecula suecica, Lin. (2). 



Khyketo ; Tavoy. 



A rare cold weather visitant to the more open tracts of the 

 northern and central portions of the province. 



[I observed this bird on several occasions about clumps of 

 grass, and in along the edges of cultivated fields. It runs 

 a good deal, and when flushed flies a short distance only, 

 when it drops to the ground, and runs along very quickly. 

 It is not a shy bird, and may be accounted rare in 

 Tenasserim. I never remember to have heard it utter any 

 note.— W. D.] 



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