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specimens, becomes a greenish olive. Axillary tufts typically 
a flame orange, but in some specimens only an intense gam- 
boge yellow, tinged with orange towards the tips. 
I am not clear as to the meaning of these variations in 
color, as they occur in specimens all apparently adult, and 
killed at the same time and place. 
The female is similar to the male, but appears never to have 
the same amount of green edgings to the quills and their 
coverts, and has the entire lower surface a bright clear primrose 
yellow, only down the centre of the chin and throat, ; the 
color is slightly paler and less pure.—A. O. H.] 
236.—Diceum cruentatum, Lin. 
I have met with this species only in the immediate vicinity 
of Rangoon, where it was extremely abundant. They are 
met with most abundantly during the hottest part of the day, 
frequenting thin tree or open forest jungle. They flit about 
with great activity from tree to tree, usually in small parties 
of four or five, giving utterance all the time to small chirruping 
notes. The following is a reswmé of the dimensions of six 
males recorded in the flesh :— 
Leneth, 3°25 to 35; expanse, 5°8 to 6:1; wing, 1°85 to 1:95; 
tail from vent, 1:1 to 1:15; tarsus, -45 to ‘5; bill from gape, 
5 to ‘55. 
A female measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 3°3 ; expanse, 5°65 ; wing, 1°75; tail from vent, 1:1; 
tarsus, ‘46; bill from gape, °5. 
In both sexes the irides were reddish brown; bill, legs and 
feet, biack. 
254 dis—Upupa longirostris, Jerd.—(Vide S. F., 
III, 89.) 
This species appeared to avoid forest jungle, but was very 
abundant in the open cultivated or waste ground, frequenting 
the shrubs and hedges in those localities. I have usually 
found it consorting in pairs. The following is a resumé of 
six specimens, the dimensions of which have been recorded 
in the flesh :— 
Two males.—Length, 11:7 to 12:2; expanse, 17 to17°4; 
wing, 5'45 to 5°5; tail from vent, 4:1 to 4:4; tarsus, -95; 
bill from gape, 2°55 to 2°75; from forehead to tip, 2°42 to 
2°6; from anterior margin of nares to tip, 2 to 2°2. 
four females.—Length, 11:2 to 11:75; expanse, 16°5 to 
175; wing, 5:1 to 5:3; tail from vent, 3:9 to 4; tarsus, -93 to 
"95; bill from gape, 2°37 to 2°52; from forehead to tip, 
2:25 to 2°37; from anterior margin of nares to tip, 1°85 
to 2. 
