418 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



interscapulary region, lesser scapulars and wiug-coverts, and 

 more or less (in different specimens) of the tips and margins of 

 the secondary median and greater coverts, are a deep chestnut, 

 inclining to maroon. There is no naked space round the eyes. 

 The legs are red. 



There can, I think, be no doubt that this is the true badia of 

 Raffles, and that Blyth was under some misapprehension when 

 he said that this was the same as insignis, a much larger (wing, 

 95 to over 1O0) and very differently colored bird. How, if at 

 all, lacernulata differs, never having seen a Javan specimen, I 

 cannot say. 



781 ter.— Carpophaga griseicapiila, Wold. (5). Descr. 

 S. F., III., 402. 



(Karen Hills, Earns.) 2,000 feet above Paraduba ; Mooleyit. 

 Confined apparently to Mooleyit and its higher spurs in Tenas- 

 serim proper, but reappears in the higher parts of the Karen Hills. 

 [This fine Pigeon was not uncommon about Mooleyit, and its 

 slopes, in small parties or pairs, or even singly. It has like its 

 congeners a deep booming single note that can be heard to a 

 very long distance. Those I examined had been feeding on 

 a large hard yellow r fruit, the size of a walnut, which they had 

 swallowed whole. Their habits are much the same as those of 

 cenea, but they never come into scrub jungle as these latter do. — 



W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c., of two males and two 

 females, recorded in the flesh: — 



Males.— Length, 18-12, 18-75 : expanse, 29-25, 29-5, tail from 

 vent, 7-5, 7 '9 ; wing, 9*7, 100 ; tarsus, 1'2 ; bill from gape, 1-6 ; 

 weight, 1*25, 1'5 lbs. 



Females.— Length, 17-0, 17-5 ; expanse, 2925, 29-5 ; tail from 

 vent, 7-1, 7-5; wings, 96, 9-8 ; tarsus, 1 -05, 112; bill from 

 gape, 1-4, 155 ; weight, TO, 1*5 lbs. 



Legs and feet deep lake pink ; bill deep^ lake pink, except 

 horny portion, which is pale whitey brown ; irides pearly grey. 



781 quint. — Carpophaga bicolor, Scop. Descr. 

 S. P., II., 265. 



Blyth gives this from the Mergui Archipelago, where, al- 

 though we have not yet met with it, it is very likely to occur 

 at certain seasons. 



782.— Alsocomus puniceus, Tick. (4). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Pahpoon; Thatone ; Amherst ; TJslieetherrpone. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the northern and central 

 portions of the province. 



