US LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



tree that grew near my bungalow, while uttering a single 

 mellow " tweet."— J. R. C] 



Blyth records it from Arakan. Mr. Oates procured a single 

 specimen near Pegu, but beyond this I do not know of its 

 occurrence in Pegu. In Tenasserim we got it at Mooleyit and 

 Bingham in the Meplay valley. Lastly, Ramsay procured it in 

 Karenee. 



328— Tesia cyaniventris, Hodgs. 



I obtained one specimen of this species between the Jhiri 



and Noongzai-ban in the low level forest ; another high up 



on the Limatol range — both these in the Western hills. Again, 



I got three above Aimole in the Eastern hills. All five were 



males. The following are the particulars of some of these : — 



Length. Expanse, Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 



$ ... 3-9 6-35 0-7 2-05 98 0-63 0-33 oz. 



$ ... 3-9 6-6 0-9 1-85 0-96 0'6 031 „ 



S .... 8-9 63 7 1'86 0-96 0-57 0'34 „ 



Legs, feet and claws dull brown to pale rather fleshy brown ; 

 upper mandible and tip of lower deep to blackish brown ; 

 rest of lower mandible and gape dull wax yellow to orange 

 horny ; irides deep brown. 



Now there are two styles of plumage in this species. In 

 the one the whole upper parts are uniform olive green; 

 there is a very conspicuous blackish line, traceable through the 

 upper part of the lores, but very marked from the eye to 

 the nape, and above this a line paler and yellower than the 

 rest of the head. The lower parts are slaty grey, but with 

 the chin and throat almost white and albescent on the breast 

 and the central portions of the abdomen down to the vent. 



In the other the entire forehead, crown, occiput and nape 

 are overlaid with glistening greenish golden ; the black 

 line is much less conspicuous ; there is no paler line above 

 this, and the entire under surface is a perfectly uniform and 

 very much deeper slate colour. 



Now from the numbers of each form that we possess I 

 suppose these to represent the two sexes. Jerdon says head 

 of male golden green, and this may be so, but all my five 

 specimens were males, I dissected them myself, and all are 

 in the plumage first described, and therefore, according to 

 Jerdon, females. Perhaps mine are all young birds, but this 

 seems unlikely, and the birds show no signs of immaturity. 

 I have never sexed this bird before myself, and out of some 

 fifty odd specimens in the museum there is not one sexed by 

 any one on whom I can rely ; indeed I find both forms of 



