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and their greater coverts. The first few primaries just edged 

 at their extreme margins with white ; all the secondaries, and 

 their greater coverts, and the median coverts conspicuously mar- 

 gined on their outer webs with bright yellow ; the median coverts 

 showing a more or less narrow band of green or dusky green, 

 between these yellow margins and the maroon. 



The female is extremely like the female of malabarica, but 

 has bright yellow tibial plumes ; the forehead, crown, and occiput, 

 slaty grey ; the rest of the bird, except the quills and their mar- 

 gins, and inner webs of lateral tail feathers which are all as in the 

 male, dull green, somewhat ashy above, yellower on the chin, 

 middle of throat, foreneck and breast. She further differs from 

 the male in having the lower tail-coverts pale creamy or 

 yellow, sometimes faintly rufescent towards the centres of the 

 feathers. The feathers generally more or less centred, except 

 quite at the tips, with dusky or greyish green. 



778.— Sphenocercus sphenurus, Vigors. (5). 



(Tonghoo hills, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween ; Kollidoo 5 Kyouk-nyat ; 

 Mooleyit. 



Confined to the hill forests of the northern and central por- 

 tions of the province. 



fl only met with this species in the hills to the north of 

 Pahpoon and on the higher slopes of Mooleyit, always in the 

 forest or on its borders, in pairs or small parties, keeping to the 

 higher trees, and rather shy. Even where it did occur it was 

 rare. Its note approximates somewhat to that of the Osmotrerons, 

 but is much softer, and might be termed a soft cooing whistle. 

 Its food consists, of course, entirely of small fruits which are 

 swallowed whole. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions of three males and a female 

 recorded in the flesh : — 



Males.— Length, 13-0 to 13*5 ; expanse, 3 9'8 to 21-25; tail 

 from vent, 54 to 5"6 ; wing, 6'5 to 7*0 ; tarsus, 0'9 ; bill from 

 gape, 0*9 to 1/1 , weight, 7'0 to 8'0 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 13*5 ; expanse, 20"8 ; tail from vent, 5'62 ; 

 wing, 7-0 ; tarsus, 0-85 ; bill from gape, 0'9 ; weight, 7 ozs. 



Legs, feet, and claws, crimson pink ; bill dull smalt blue ; horny 

 portion pale skim milk blue ; orbital skin pale smalt ; irides with 

 an inner ring of pale, bright blue, and an outer ring of buffy 

 pink. 



779.— Sphenocfcrcus apicaudus, Hodgs. (4). 



(Tonghoo Sills, Rains.) Pine forests, Salween ; Kollidoo ; Mooleyit. 



Confined, to the hill forests of the central and northern por- 

 tions of the province, and rare there. 



