420 BIRDS OF TENASSEKIM. 



u Iris white, surrounded by pale lilac ; orbital skin grey, with 

 an inner rim of purple round the eye ; bill blackish ; legs 

 purplish pink." 



791? — Macropygia ruficeps. Tern. 



Said by Bly th to occur at Mergui, but its occurrence in Tenas- 

 serim is extremely doubtful, and Blyth may have intended M. 

 assimilis, or he may have had specimens of ruficeps sent him 

 from Mergui, but which were not really originally procured in 

 that neighbourhood. 



791 ter— Macropygia assimilis, Hume. (5). Descr. 

 S. E., III., 44,1. 



{Karen Sills, at 3,000 feet, Earns.) Kollidoo; Mooleyit. 



Apparently confined to the higher hill forests of the province. 

 I suspect now that this must be the species obtained by 

 Stoliczka, in the Wellesley Province, (J. A. S. B., XXXIX., 

 pt. II., 331, 1870). We, however, have not, as yet, observed 

 it there. 



[This bird is not very rare, but is still most difficult to 

 obtain : it is extremely shy aud keeps to the densest parts of 

 the forests ; on Mooleyit, in the mornings and evenings, I used 

 to hear numbers calling. The note is very peculiar, and sounds 

 like Qo-who-who-oo, repeated quickly several times. The birds 

 keep in small parties of four or six. They live on small fruits, 

 and the stomachs of some I examined contained what looked 

 to me like buds or tender undeveloped leaves. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, of four males : — 



Length, 13*0 to 135; expanse, 17*5 to 18*5; tail from vent, 

 6-7 to 7-1; wing, 5-7 to 6-25; tarsus, 075 to 0-8; bill from 

 gape, 0"85 to 0"95 ; weight, 35 to 4 ozs. 



Legs and feet dark brownish red ; bill pinkish red or pale 

 purplish brown ; the irides varied, sometimes they are quite 

 grey, at other times grey with an inner ring of blue, at others 

 pearly white; orbital skin pale blue. 



793.— Turtur meena, Syles. (10). 



(Toncfhoo, Karennee, at 4,000 feet, Rains.) Clearings in the Pine forests of 

 the Salween ; Kollidoo j Kyonk-nyat ; Pahpoon. 



Confined to the more open tracts, hills and plains, of the 

 northernmost portions of the province. 



[This species was not uncommon about the rice fields, and open 

 country about Pahpoon, and occurred, though more sparingly, 



