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tertiaries, which elsewhere are the same metallic green as the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts, except the longest already des- 

 cribed, and feathers at the sides at the base of the tail a warm 

 salmon buff, and lower tail-coverts white, with a strong tinge 

 of the same color ; entire outer web of the outer tail feather of 

 this same color ; rest of throat, breast, lower portion of sides and 

 neck, abdomen and sides of the body, white, with a very faint 

 grey shade ; wing-lining and axillaries pure white ; on the under 

 surface of the wing the outer portions of the inner webs of the 

 quills with a pale salmon colored tinge. 



691. — Saraglossa spiloptera, Vig. 



Obtained by Wardlaw Ramsay on the thickly-wooded slopes 

 of the Karen Hills ; not seen as yet elsewhere in Tenasserim by 

 Davison, though said to have occurred at Mooleyit. 



691 Us.— Calornis chalybseus, Horsf. (61). 



Yea; MeetaMyo; Tavoy ; Mergui; Pakchan ; Bankasoon; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southern half of the province, and not quite 

 reaching the northern limits of that : avoids dense forests and 

 does not ascend the hills. 



[I have never noticed this species to the northward of Yea, 

 and until Mergui is reached it is not a common bird. About 

 Malewoon and Bankasoon it is very abundant, keeping in flocks 

 about the edges of the forest, and in clearings, where a good 

 many trees are left standing. They are very noisy birds, and 

 have a sharp metallic single note. At Malewoon, several cocoa- 

 nut palms growing on the banks of the creek in the heart 

 of the town formed a nightly roosting place for an immense 

 number of these birds, and just about dusk flocks would keep 

 arriving, till many hundreds had assembled, and the chattering 

 and screaming and fighting that went on till all were comfor- 

 tably settled for the night was something awful. At Tavoy 

 and Mergui the ii Htees''' or gilt ornaments on the top of the 

 Pagodas were nightly resorted to by numbers, and in these 

 il Mtees" the birds also breed. 



These birds feed largely on small berries, but eat insects as 

 well ; they never, that I am aware, descend to the ground. — 

 W. D.] 



The Tenasserim specimens are all identical with Sumatran 

 and Malaccan specimens, and both Mr. Sharpe (Ibis, 1876., p. 

 46.) and Count Salvadori (U. di B., 271.) show sufficient to 

 establish the identity of Javan, Bornean, Sumatran, and Malac- 

 can specimens, and I therefore adopt Horsfield's name. 



I have now an enormous series of these birds from many 

 localities, and I find that it is impossible to separate the 



