344 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Legs, feet, and claws fleshy white ; two-thirds of lower mandi- 

 ble fleshy white ; rest of lower mandible and upper mandible 

 horny brown ; irides dark brown. 



From the nostrils over the lores and ear-coverts, and 

 rio-ht to the nape, runs a narrow buff band ; the lores and a broad 

 streak behind the eye under this band, blackish brown ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts pale reddish buff or slightly brown ; the fore- 

 head and the entire space between the two eye-streaks are 

 a rich wai*m olive brown, slightly rufest.-ent ; all the feathers ex- 

 cessively narrowly margined with a darker shade, so that when 

 closely looked into the head has a slightly squamated appear- 

 ance. 



The back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts much the 

 same color as the head, but not so warm or rich a tint, though 

 sometimes the tips of the longest upper tail-coverts are a little 

 more rufescent ; wings and tail pale hair brown, the outer webs 

 of the feathers, and both webs of the tertiaries more or less suf- 

 fused with the color of the back, and margined exteriorly more 

 rufescent ; chin, throat, breast and abdomen white ; sides of 

 breast, sides and flanks tinged brownish fulvous ; wing-lining and 

 axillaries and lower tail-coverts pale fulvous. 



This species has been recently well figured in the Ibis, 

 PI. IV., 1877, but the tail is there shown more pointed than it 

 really is, and the bird is drawn amongst reeds over water, 

 whereas it is, according to our experience, a bird of the densest 

 forest, keeping habitually on tbe ground, only getting into 

 bushes when startled, and never going near water. 



527 quat— Horeites pallidipes, Blanf. (l). 



(Karen Sills, [H. sericea, Wald.*} Earns.) Pahpoon. 



Confined to the northernmost portions of the province. 



[I only once saw this species, when I shot it on the ground, 

 and neither heard its notes nor observed anything of its 

 habits.— W. D.] 



Mr. Blanford's original description, although he called the 

 bird a Phylloseopus, appears to me to be extremely good, and I 

 shall therefore quote it. He gives the dimensions : — " Wing, 

 2*05 ; tail, 1*7 ; tarsus, 0'76 ; bill at front, 0-4 ; from gape, 0*55." 



A female from Tenasserim measures in the skin — ■ 



Length, 4'1 ; tail, 1-7 ; wing, 1-9 ; bill from frontal bone, 0-53. 



The lower tail-coverts are usually pale yellowish white, and 

 the inner webs of the wings and tail pale hair, and not 

 earthy, brown. I should call the 4th, 5th, and 6th quills equal 

 and longest : at any rate this is the ordinary shape of the wing. 



* S. F., V., 57. 



