BIRDS OF TENASSER1M. 403 



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



Males. — Length, 425 to 4-62 ; expanse, 6 # 13 to 6%; tail 

 from vent, 1-5 to 1-62; wing, 182 ; tarsus, 0*5; bill from gape, 

 0*45; weight, 3 oz. 



Females.— Length, 4-37 to 4-5; expanse, 6'25 to6'37; tail 

 from vent, T62 to 2*05; wing, 1-75 to 20; tarsus, 0"5 to 

 0*57; bill from gape, 0*4 to 0'5; weight, 0"25 to 0-3 oz. 



Legs and feet dusky plumbeous or dull smalt blue ; lower 

 mandible dull smalt, or pale blue ; upper mandible brownish 

 black, or black ; irides dark brown. 



The lores, cheeks, chin, throat and foreneck intense brown, 

 almost black; top and back of the bead deep brown with a very 

 faint olivaceous tinge, the feathers of the occiput scarcely per- 

 ceptibly paler shafted; the back, rump, scapulars, lesser and" 

 median wing-coverts, tertiaries, and greater coverts deep brown, 

 with a somewhat olivaceous chocolate tinge ; all but the greater 

 coverts with conspicuous pale shafts ; primaries and secondaries 

 blackish brown ; tail black ; the central tail feathers margined 

 on both webs, and in some specimens almost the whole of these 

 feathers overlaid, and the lateral feathers margined externally 

 towards their bases, with pale sordid yellow ; breast, sides, flanks, 

 tibial plumes, deep chocolate brown, becoming black on the 

 breast where it impinges on the white abdomen ; lower tail-coverts 

 black ; wing-lining and axillaries white or faintly yellowish 

 white, except along the edge of the wing, where it is blackish 

 brown, speckled and spotted with white. 



Some specimens are darker both above and below ; in some 

 the whole central portion of the breast right down to the white 

 of the abdomen is black, and some have the white of the 

 abdomen reduced to a large spot on the centre of this latter. 



702.— Munia acuticauda, Hodgs. (58). 



(Tonghoo Sills, Rams.,) Pahpocm ; Meetan ; Amherst; Yea; Shymotee ; 

 Mergui ; Tenasserim Town ; Pakckan ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Generally distributed throughout all the more open and better 

 cultivated portions of the province, but not ascending the higher 

 hills. 



[The common Munia of Tenasserim, occurring about rice 

 fields, gardens, secondary jungle, and about open spaces 

 generally. When the rice is ripe immense flocks may be seen 

 about the fields.— W. D.] 



703 bis. — Padda oryzivora, Lin. 



Mr. Blyth says the well-known Java Sparrow of British 

 dealers in birds, which is extensively diffused over the Malay 

 countries, was procured in Mergui province by Major Berd- 

 more. 



