438 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



with fine broken lines of white, these disappearing towards 

 the tips; primaries dark -brown, irregularly marked with white 

 lines." 



The characteristic points in which typical crawfurdi differs 

 from lineafus, are first, the much coarser and bolder character of 

 the markings of the upper surface which are all longitudinal, 

 more or less parallel, to the margins of the feathers which are 

 entirely free from the fine, more or less transverse, markings or 

 mottling characteristic of linealus ; second, in the whole of the 

 central tail feathers, except just the tip and the margins of the 

 inner webs, being boldly variegated black and white, instead of, 

 as in lineatus, almost the whole of the inner webs and the ter- 

 minal half, at any rate, of the outer webs being white or sullied 

 white, free from markings, and such markings as exist on the 

 basal portions being fine. 



I do not attach any importance to the supposed less amount 

 of white striation on the under surface of crawfurdi, because I 

 have specimens of lineatus, in which every single feather of the 

 breast, abdomen, and sides has a more or less broad white shaft 

 stripe, and others again in which only two or three feathers on 

 the extreme sides of the breast show any traces of this. 



Our Dargwin bird is typical, so far as the back, sides of the 

 neck, and wings are concerned ; these parts correspond exactly 

 with Mr. Elliot's plate (Mon. Phas.) ; the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts are much more coarsely marked than in any lineatus, 

 and the markings have the longitudinal character, but they are 

 by no means so bold as represented in the plate referred to ; 

 then again the tail has nearly the whole inner web, and the 

 terminal third of the outer web of the central feathers white 

 unmarked, and the markings on the other portions of these 

 feathers, though a great deal stronger and more decided than 

 in lineatus, are by no means as bold as in Mr. Wolfs plate, 

 thouo-h on the five outer tail feathers on either side they are 

 precisely as depicted. The bird is, therefore, to a certain extent 

 intermediate, but it is decidedly nearest to crawfurdi, and pro- 

 bably when we come to work the country between Pahpoon and 

 Bhamo we shall find that these two species thoroughly grade one 

 into the other. 



The specimen referred to measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 30*0 ; expanse, 32-75 ; tail from vent, 13-5 ; wing, 

 11-5; tarsus, 3-62; bill from gape, 1-55; weight, 2-75lbs. 



The legs and feet were dark pinkish fleshy ; the bill pale 

 bluish horny ; the facial skin deep crimson ; the irides brown. 



811 quint.— Euplocamus vieilloti, G. E. Gray. (25). 



Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



