BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 419 



[I have found this Pig-eon very rave in Tenasserim, meeting 

 with one now and then, and always singly. Captain Bingham 

 tells me that they are not rare in the Sinzaway Reserve 

 Forest on the Younzaleen. I have never heard the note that 

 I can remember, and really know nothing about its habits as 

 yet,— W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions of two males and a female : — 



Males.— Length, 14-12, 15-6; expanse, 25'0, 26*25; -tail 

 from vent, 5*5, 6'6; wing, 8*2, 8*5; tarsus, 0*9, 1*1; bill 

 from gape, 1*1, 1*2; weight, 8 ozs. 



Female. — Length, 14*75 ; expanse, 25*25 ; tail from vent, 

 5*5; wing, 8*4 ; tarsus, 1*0; bill from gape, 1*2 ; weight, 1 oz. 



Legs and feet are pale purplish, or lake pink ; horny portion 

 of bill bluish white ; rest of bill and gape lake pink ■ hides deep 

 orange, or pale yellow ; eyelids bright red ; orbital skin purplish 

 pink. 



788. — Columba intermedia, Strickl. 



Blyth, speaking of Burma, as a whole, says B. of B., p. 145 ; 

 " Common as throughout India." So far as we know it occurs 

 nowhere in Tenasserim, and Ramsay does not appear to have 

 procured it, either in Tonghoo, the Karen Hills, or Karennee, 

 the only portions of the mainland of Tenasserim which Davison 

 has not yet visited. 



791.— Macropygia tusalia, Hodgs. (2). 



(Karennee, Earns-) Kollidoo; Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently to the higher parts of Mooleyit, and 

 the range to which this belongs, which runs northwards through 

 Karennee and spurs of which approach Kollidoo. 



[A very rare bird in Tenasserim. Usually I have found it 

 in the forest, but the specimen I shot near Kollidoo I got on 

 the edge of an old abandoned clearing. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions and colors of soft parts of 

 two females recorded in the flesh : — 



Length, 150, 15*9; expanse, 21*25; tail from vent, 7*0, 

 8*12; wing, 17*0, 17*25; tarsus, 0*95; bill from gape, 0*85, 

 1*1 ; weight, 7*0 ozs. 



Legs and feet are pinkish brown or brownish red; bill 

 dirty purplish or horny brown ; hides outer ring pink, inner 

 ring blue. 



Ramsay says : — 



" I found a nest containing two white eggs at 4,000 feet in 

 the Karen Hills on the 18th March. The eggs measured 

 roughly 1*4 by 1*0 inch. 



