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The following are dimensions, &c, of three males and two 

 females : — 



Males. — Length, 67 to 675; expanse, 9'5 to I0"0; tail from 

 vent, 2-8 to 30 ; wing, 295 to 315 ; tarsus, 0'8 to 09; bill from 

 gape, 070 ; weight, 055 to 0'6 oz. 



Females. — Length, 65 to 675 ; expanse, 9*4 to 975 ; tail 

 from vent, 27 to 28 ; wing, 3*05; tarsus, 0"8 ; bill from gape, 

 075 ; weight, 0'62 oz. 



Legs, feet, and claws pinkish flesh color; upper mandible dark 

 brown ; lower mandible fleshy pink ; irides deep brown. 



596.— Pipastes maculatus, Hodgs. (17). 



(Karen Hills, from 2,600 to 5,000 feet, Rams.) Pine forests, Salween ; Pah- 

 poon ; Beeling ; Kaukaryit, Houngthraw E. ; Thatone ; Moulmein ; Yea-boo ■ 

 Mooleyit ; Amherst ; Meeta Myo ; Pabyin. 



Generally distributed throughout the province alike in hills 

 and plains during the cold season. 



[In Tenasserim this Pipit is always found in smaller or laro-er 

 parties, frequenting shady places, and picking about slowlyon 

 the ground. When disturbed they fly up into the neighbouring 

 trees, descending again as soon as the cause of disturbance 

 has passed. They move about the ground very demurelv and 

 slowly.— W. D.] J 



599.— Corydalla richardi, Vieill. (40). 



{Tonghoo, Karennee, Rams). Pahpoon ; Kedai-Keglay j Thatone; Wimpong ; 

 Ko-go, Houngthraw R.; Moulmein; Amherst; Tavoy; Zadawoon ; Mergui • 

 Tenasserim Town; Pakehan; Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon. 



Very common during the cold season, in all cultivated and 

 open lands throughout the pi'ovince. 



[This species specially affects rice fields or turfy land. I did 

 not find it on the grassy slopes near the top of Mooleyit, and 

 it probably does not ascend the higher hills. Towards the 

 end of March they are seen in moderately large flocks, and are 

 then very shy, but during the winter months it is seen singly, 

 when it is not shy. I have often seen them fly up off the 

 ground and seize a passing insect. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 



Males.— Length, 7-6 to 812 ; expanse, 1175 to 1275; tail 

 from vent, 3*0 to 3-37 ; wing, 375 to 3'82 ; tarsus, 1-15 to 

 1-25; bill from gape, 0-8 to 0'82; weight, 1-0 to 1-1 oz. 



Females.— Length, 7'12 to 7-62; expanse, 11-0 to 11-62; 

 tail from vent, 3-0 to 3*1; wing, 2"85 to 355 ; tarsus, 1-2, 

 bill from gape, 0'6 to 0*8, 



