366 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



600.— Corydalla rufula, Fieill. (37). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Kaukaryifc, Houngthraw E. ; Pabyouk ; Thatone ; Amherst ; 

 Tavoy ; Mergui ; Tenasserim Town ; Pakchan j Bankasoon ; Mulewoon. 



A permaneat resident in the more open and cultivated tracts 

 throughout the province, not however ascending- the higher hills. 



[Quite a common bird about turfy land and rice fields and 

 also in gardens. There is not a bit of open land anywhere 

 about Moulmeiu, Tavoy, or Mergui, where numbers may not 

 be seen. It is a very familiar and tame bird, running about 

 the gardens, and along the paths and roads, and even coming 

 to within a foot or two of one's door. Though numbers may 

 be seen within a very small circumference, yet they all seem to 

 act quite independently of each other ; their flight is undulating, 

 and they utter, as they rise and during flight, a short sharp 

 note. I have seen them often rise into the air, hover for a 

 few moments, sing a sort of song, and then descend. I did 

 not notice this bird at Pahpoon nor up at Mooleyit. — W. D.] 



600 Si*.— Corydalla malayensis, Eyton. (7.) 



Bankasoon. 



A straggler into the extreme southernmost portions of the 

 province. 



[I observed this only about the rice fields near Bankasoon, 

 and even there it is not common. In its habits, &c, it differs in 

 no way from C. rufula. — W. D.J 



This species is very close to riifula, but differs in the darker 

 upper surface, (and, generally, comparing birds of the same 

 month, richer coloring) in having the spotting on the breast 

 more strongly marked, in the stouter bill and also in the feet. 

 / believe that in malayensis the first primary is equal to, or 

 longer than, the second, while in rufula it is a shade shorter. 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded of this species ; 

 several females, but unfortunately only one male, measured : — 



Male. — Length, 6'75 ; expanse, 105 ; tail, 25 ; wing, 3 5 ; 

 tarsus, 105 ; bill from gape, 85. 



Females. — Length, 6*45 to 6-75 ; expanse, 975 to 1025 ; tail 

 from vent, 2*12 to 2'4 ; wing, 3'1 to 345 ; tarsus, 1*05 to 11 ; 

 bill from gape, 8. 



601.— Corydalla striolata, Blyth. (3). Descr. S. F., 

 I., 358. 



Mergui ; Bankasoon. 



A rare visitant to the southernmost district of the province- 



