314 NoTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
[When describing Arachnechthra andamanica (8. F., I, 404), 
J also pointed out some of the characteristic differences of the 
present species, A flammaaillaris, Blyth; but the species is 
not included in Dr. Jerdon’s work, and has not yet been de- 
scribed in “ Stray Fearuers.” 
The following are the dimensions, and a description founded on 
a large series obtained in various parts of the Tenasserim pro- 
vinces and lower Pegu, Diamond Island, and Akyab :— 
Males.— Length, 4:3 to 4-6 ; expanse, 6 to 6°8 ; wing, 1:95 to 
2°12 ; tail from vent, 1°35 to 1°55; tarsus, 0°5 to 0°55 ; bill from 
gape, 0°7 to 0°8; bill at front, 0°59 to 0°7. 
Female.—Length, 4°25 to 4°37; expanse, 6 to 6:5; wing, 
2 to 2°05 ; tail from vent, 1°3 to 1:5; tarsus, 0°45 to 0°53; bill 
from gape, 0°7 to 0°8; bill at front, 0°63 to 0°67. 
The bill, legs, feet, and claws, black. As to the irides there 
is some doubt; they have been recorded as red in some speci- 
mens, and dark brown in others. 
The adult male has the entire top and back of the head, sides 
and back of the neck, the entire back, scapulars, and lesser 
coverts, rump and upper tail coverts, a dull olive green, or 
brown, washed with this color. Some specimens are much 
browner, some greener, but in most examples, there is a slightly 
brighter tinge on the rump. 
The guills, and their greater coverts, are rather pale hair 
brown, asa rule all more or less fringed on their outer 
margins, with the color of the back, but this is sometimes 
almost entirely wanting, only the margins of the quills being 
slightly paler. 
The tail is black; the exterior tail feather broadly, and 
the next two, more and more narrowly tipped with white. 
The chin, throat, and breast, deep metallic purple, bordered 
along the sides of the neck, and, indeed, from the gape 
downwards, by a more or less well-defined band of deep steel 
blue. Below, the deep metallic purple of the upper breast 
is bordered by a more or less conspicuons band of red, which 
varies from a brownish orange red in some specimens, to almost 
maroon in others. 
This band is very imperfectly marked in some good speci- 
mens even, and it is succeeded by a dusky or blackish patch, 
in some specimens confined to the centre of the breast, in some 
extending on either side into a band. 
The abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts, typically are clear 
pale primrose yellow, paling somewhat on the lower tail coverts, 
but in some specimens with a gamboge tint on the abdomen, 
and in others very pale, the flanks always more or less shaded 
with grey or dusky, which, in some very brightly-colored 
