424 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Females.— Length, 8*62 to 95 ; expanse, 12*25 to 1262 ; tail 

 from vent, 4-0 to 4-45 ; wing, 3*75 to 4-5 ; tarsus, 07 to 076 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'65 to 075 ; wing, 175 to 2*25 oz. 



Front of tarsus and toes pinkish purple, with the scutation 

 divided by pink lines ; back of tarsus and soles fleshy pink ; 

 claws dirty greenish blue ; base of bill pale clear blue ; rest of 

 bill bluish white, darkening towards tip ; irides generally white, 

 occasionally grey brown or pale slaty blue ; orbital skin pale 

 clear blue, tinged with green. 



The whole forehead, anterior portion of crown, cheeks, greater 

 portion of ear-coverts, chin and throat, a pure very pale French 

 grey ; a dark line through the lores ; the upper portion of the 

 ear-coverts streaked blackish ; posterior portion of crown pale 

 fawn brown ; middle of lower part of foreneck, of breast and 

 upper abdomen, pale vinaceous ; entire sides and back of the 

 neck, sides of breast, abdomen, body, and flanks white, very 

 regularly and narrowly barred with blackish brown ; the middle 

 of the back of the neck suffused with pale, somewhat earthy 

 brown ; all the coverts, (but the greater primary ones) the 

 secondaries, tertiaries, interscapulary region, scapulars, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, a pale greyish earthy brown, most 

 albescent on the median and central coverts of the wing ; every 

 feather, except the secondaries, and in some specimens the 

 longest upper tail-coverts, narrowly tipped with black ; the 

 tippings least conspicuous, as a rule, on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 primaries and their greater coverts a darker somewhat greyish 

 hair brown, the former whitish at the edges ; tail dark brown ; 

 both webs of the central, and more or less of the outer webs of 

 the next pair, suffused with a grey drabby brown, and the four 

 outermost pairs broadly tipped with pure white ; lower abdo- 

 men, vent, and lower tail-coverts white ; all but the longest of the 

 latter with a creamy tinge ; tibial plumes creamy or pinkish white, 

 with very narrow indistinct wavy transverse bars ; wing-lining 

 grey ; the central portion barred with pale chestnut and brown ; 

 a large patch on the inner webs of the quills pale chestnut. 



A nestling has the entire crown, occiput, nape, and upper 

 parts closely barred pale rufescent and brown ; and the entire 

 breast and upper abdomen similarly barred, but with the vinous 

 tinge already apparent on the middle of the breast ; almost the 

 entire wing-lining is pale chestnut. 



798.— Chalcophaps indica, Lin. (17). 



(Tonghoo, foot of Karen Hills, Rams ) Dargwin ; Thatone ; Moulmein j 

 Meetan ; Amherst ; Lemyne ; Meeta Myo ; Mergui j Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the better-wooded portions 

 of the province, but not ascending above about 4,000 feet. 



