BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 357 



I recently identified a specimen from Amherst, collected by 

 Dr. Armstrong, as belonging" to this species ; it was an exces- 

 sively bad one ; and on re-comparison with a large series, I 

 consider my first identification to be wrong. 



All our specimens, therefore, were obtained at Mergui or parts 

 of Tenasserim south of Mergui, but We have also obtained it 

 in the neighbourhood of Malacca. 



The following are dimensions and colors of the soft parts of 

 males measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 5 to 5'5 ; expanse, 7*12 to 7*75 ; tail from vent, 2'1 

 to 2-2 ; wing, 25 to 2-85 ; tarsus, 0-65 to 07 ; bill from gape, 

 0-6 to 0-62 ; weight, 0-2 to 026 oz. 



The legs were dull bluish green ; the feet dingy horny ; the 

 lower mandible and inside of mouth chrome yellow ; upper 

 mandible pale horny brown. 



Forehead, crown, and occiput moderately dark brown, or with a 

 slight olive green tinge, and with a conspicuous, though irregular, 

 pale yellowish green mesial stripe on posterior portion of crown 

 and occiput ; the head decidedly darker than the back ; a 

 narrow pale yellow streak from the nostrils over the eyes and 

 ear-coverts most conspicuous over the eye and ears ; a dark 

 spot occupies the greater portion of the lores, and there is 

 a similar and rather larger spot immediately behind the 

 eye ; the sides of the head below this latter and cheeks are a 

 greyish olive green ; the rump and upper tail-coverts a rather 

 bright olive green ; the back and scapulars pale hair brown, 

 so washed and overlaid with this color that little of the brown 

 is visible ; the wings are a dark hair brown ; all the feathers 

 margined with a brighter olive green, so that in the closed 

 wing little else is visible ; all the greater secondary coverts 

 tipped with yellowish white, so as to form a conspicuous wing 

 bar. In this particular specimen there are no traces of a 

 second wing bar ; in others there are. Chin, throat, breast, 

 abdomen, white and silky, more or less shaded with grey, 

 except in the middle of the abdomen, and generally a little 

 streaked with very pale primrose about the throat and breast ; 

 edge of the wing rather bright yellow ; wing-lining and axil- 

 laries more or less tinged with pale yellow ; tibial plumes a 

 sort of pale fulvous brown ; sides grey, a little tinged with 

 yellow, especially towards the flanks ; entire under tail-coverts 

 pure pale yellow ; tail pale hair brown, overlaid more or less 

 with the olive green of the back, and margined on the outer 

 webs of the feathers, more especially towards their bases, with 

 the same brighter olive green of the wings. 



The first primary is very narrow, its exposed portion about 0'5. 



The third and fourth primaries about equal and longest ; 



the fifth a little shorter ; the second a little shorter than the 



