312 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
the forest jungle near China-Ba-keer. A male specimen shot 
on the 19th December measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 15:7 ; expanse, 25°3; tail from vent, 8°75 ; wing, 9°25; 
tarsus, 1; bill from gape, 14. 
Irides, rich yellow; eyelids, margined with orange yellow ; 
upper mandible, dull greenish black; lower mandible, dusky 
horny green, shading into dirty yellow towards the point, which 
is tipped with dusky black; legs, feet, soles, and claws, bright 
yellow. The contents of the stomach consisted almost entirely 
of portions of grasshoppers and beetles. 
209.—Cacomantis rufiventra, Jerd. 
This species was universally distributed over the entire 
region lying between Rangoon and China-Ba-keer, but did not 
appear to be abundant anywhere. They were generally met 
with in pairs, frequenting the open ground at the outskirts of 
forest jungle, keeping almost exclusively to low bushes or 
hedges. There does not seem to be any appreciable difference 
of size between the two sexes. The following is a resumé of 
the dimensions of five specimens recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 8:75 to 9°5; expanse, 15:1 to 15-6; tail from vent, 
4:5 to 5'1; wing, 4°45 to 4°6; tarsus, ‘6 to °65 ; bill from gape, 
“9 toy: 
Irides, brown ; upper mandible, reddish black ; lower mandi- 
ble, yellowish brown, tipped with dusky; gape, deep salmon 
red ; legs and feet, yellowish brown ; claws, black. 
215.—Rhodophytes tristis, Less, 
This species was not uncommon amongst the copses and 
thickets in the forests jungle between Elephant Point and 
China-Ba-keer. Several specimens measured in the flesh show 
the following result :— 
Length, 20°5 to 22°5; expanse, 16:2 to 18:2; tail from vent, 
13°2 to 16°5; tarsus, 1°55 to 1:65; bill from gape, 1°5 to 1°65. 
Trides, brownish red; lores, crimson ; bill, bright horny green, 
darker towards the base ; legs and feet, greenish black; claws, 
dark brown. 
217 quat.—Centrococcyx eurycercus, Hay.—(Vide 
SoH 1453 111, 83.) 
This species was generally distributed, though far from 
abundant anywhere. I only obtained a single specimen which 
I shot near Elephant Point; it was a female and measured in 
the flesh :— 
Length, 20°5 ; expanse, 24; tail from vent, 10°75 ; wing, 7:9; 
tarsus, 2'4; bill from gape, 1:9. 
