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Female.— Length, 13*9 ; expanse, 3075 ; tail from vent, 4-6 ; 

 wing, 9-8 ; tarsus, 3*18; bill from gape, 1*5. 



Legs and feet yellow ; claws black ; apical third of bill black, 

 rest orange yellow ; wattles greenish yellow. 



855.— Lobivanellus atronuchalis,* Blyth (46). Desce. 

 S. F., III., 181. 



[Tonghoo, Karennee, Earns.) Kedai-Keglay ; Thatone ; Kogo, Houne- 

 £V- '4 F y ° uk .\ As8 °° n ' Kar °P e ' ^herst ; Yea ; Tavoy ; Shymotee ; 

 Mallwoon '' ™ ' Tenasserim Town ' Bo Py in ' Takchaa • Bankasoon; 



Common throughout the plains portions of the province. 

 [A common bird, wherever the country is open, aud along 

 the banks of all the rivers, generally in pairs, often in smatl 

 parties. In its habits and voice it does not differ from its 

 Indian ally, L. goensis. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh :— 



Males.— Length, 12-5 to 13-5; expanse, 27-5 to 28-5; tail 

 from vent, 4-25 to 4-75 j wing, 8"35 ; to 8'75 ; tarsus, 3-3 to 

 3-5 ; bill from gape, 1-2 to 1'37 ; weight, 6 '5 ozs. 



Females.— Length, 12'5 to 13*0; expanse, 26'5 to 27-5 ; tail 

 from vent, 3-8 to 4-25 ; weight, 8-25 to 8-8; tarsus, 305 to 

 3-50; bill from gape, 1-3 to 1-37. 



Legs and feet dirty yellow ; two-thirds of bill and gape ver- 

 milion red ; rest of bill black ; lappets and eyelids vermilion 

 red ; irides dark brown. 



857.— Hoplopterus ventralis, Cab. (9), 



{Tonghoo, Karennee, Earns.) Pahpoon ; Younzaleen Creek; Thatone- 

 Mjawadee ; Megaloon ; E-poo ; Pakcban. * ra " e ' 



Generally distributed throughout the province, but confined 

 (as in India) to the sandy banks of rivers. 



[This bird occurs along the higher portions of the rivers 

 where there are sandy banks. It is never found on the mud 

 flats, nor I think within the influence of the tide, at any rate, 

 where the water is salt. It is almost always in pairs, sometimes 



* Blyth in his Catalogue gives the species as Sarcogramma atronuclialis, and refers 

 u/-,' , . B ->3 XXL > M5n -> and nowhere else. But when we turn to that passae-e 

 Published m November 1862, we find that Blyth there named the species atroaularis 

 When or where he changed this name (which was pre-occupied by Waaler for 

 goensis, Gm, indica, Bodd.,) I have not chanced to discover, but he must have done 

 so shortly-^fterwards as in Jerdon's B. of In. II., pt. 2, page 648, published in 

 Januaryl864, the species is referred to as atronuchalis. I should be much oblio-ed 

 ^* ny °V? y ™ ade , rS could enlighten me as to the work, quoting page, in which 

 Blyth notified .the change. "mm 



e J-*°. no * understand why Blyth adopts Reichenbach's generic name, seeing that 

 Strickland s has, according to Gray, 12 years precedence, and had for its tvr>e th« 

 extremely ^ closely allied goensis, and moreover does not appear, as far as I can ml. 

 out from Agassiz and others, to hare been previously used. 



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