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Legs and feet lake or purplish pink ; claws and orbital skin 

 greyish blue ; bill pale bluish white, darker at base ; hides 

 usually with an inner whig of bright blue, and an outer 

 ring of salmon or huffy pink, sometimes they are a rosy pink, 

 at others, reddish yellow. 



776 bis. — Osmotreron fulvicollis, Wagl. (15). 



Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Visits the extreme south of the province during the middle 

 of the cold season. 



[This speeies only makes its appearance in Tenasserim for 

 a couple of months, iu December and January. It occurs 

 in small flocks about the borders of the forest. Its note is very- 

 similar to that of 0. ver.nans. It is apparently rare and very- 

 local, as I only met with it in two places near Bankasoon, 

 though I was always on the look-out for it. 



It appeared to have come solely to eat the berries, much re- 

 sembling red currants, of a thick bushy shrub about teu feet 

 in height, which, near the Pakchan, grows about the clearings. 

 — W. D.] 



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



Males.— Length, 105 to 10-85; expanse, 18'0 to 18"5'; tail 

 from vent, 35 to 4-12 ; wing, 5-82 to 6-15 ; tarsus, 0'8 to 0-85 ; 

 bill from gape, 08 to 0'9 ; weight, 55 to 6 ozs. 



Females.— Length, 9-9 to 10-75; expanse, 17*12 to 18-0 ; tail 

 from vent, 3-25 to 362 ; wing, 5-65 to 5*85; tarsus, 0*75 to 

 0-8 ; bill from gape, 075 to 0'8 ; weight 575 to 6 ozs. 



_ Legs and feet in the male purplish pink, in the female lake 

 pink; claws dead white in both sexes; upper mandible to just 

 beyond nostril, and lower mandible to angle of gonys, in the 

 male deep red, in the female dull red; rest of bill in both sexes 

 dead white, tinged strongly with greenish blue; irides in the 

 male buffy pink, in the female with an outer ring of pink, 

 and an inner one of ultramarine blue ; in both sexes°the orbital 

 skin is plumbeous green, the edge of eyelids orauo-e. 



At page 162 of Vol III of Stray Feathers I gave a key, by 

 which the males of all the species of Osmolreron, which I then 

 knew to occur within our limits, might be readily distinguished. 

 The present species, which was only subsequently added" bv Mr. 

 Davison to our list,, was not included, but the male of the species 

 can never be confounded with any other species as yet known 

 to occur within our limits, it being at once distinguished by 

 having the entire head and neck all round ruddy viuaceous and 

 the breast a dull ochraceous orange. 



The females of all these several species run much closer than, 

 the males ; in fact different as are the males, female fulvicollis 



