RANGOON DISTRICT OF THE IRRAWADDY DELTA. 325 
Female.—Length, 65 to 6:9; expanse 9:75 to 10; wing, 
3°1 to 3°15; tail from vent, 2°8 to 3; tarsus, 0:5 to 0°55; 
bill from gape, 0°75 to 0°8. 
In both sexes the legs are plumbeous or dark plumbeous, 
the bill is black, the inside of the mouth, pale plumbeous blue, 
the irides, clear pale blue. 
The entire head, including cheeks, chin, and throat, black, 
with a metallic lustre, decidedly green on the throat and ear 
coverts, but purplish in most lights elsewhere. The whole body 
above and below, including upper and lower tail coverts, the 
wing coverts, except the greater primary coverts, yellow, 
strongly tinged with greenish olive on the breast and back, and 
faintly washed with this tint elsewhere, except on the lower 
abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts. The feathers of the 
lower back are only broadly tipped with yellow, and where the 
feathers are in the least disarranged, the deep brown basal 
portions show through as conspicuous more on less lunate 
patches. The quills and the primary greater coverts, deep 
hair brown; the secondaries, margined on their outer webs 
with, and the greater portion of the outer webs of the tertiaries, 
yellow. The tail, which is very much rounded, black, broadly 
tipped with bright yellow. Both upper and lower tail coverts 
are very long, the former reach within about 0-7, and the latter 
within 0°8, of the end of the tail, which brings them just 
level to the end of the exterior tail feather. The wing lining, 
white, tinged with yellow. 
The female is, as a rule, precisely similar to the male, but 
in some cases is, perhaps, greener and more infuscated than 
in any male. 
The quite young birds appear to have the metallic black 
of the head entirely replaced by a dull olive green, and the 
whole plumage is duller and greener than in the adult.— 
A. 0. H.] 
460.—Otocompsa emeria, Shaw. 
This species was met with, though very sparingly through- 
out the district which lies between Elephant Point and China- 
Ba-keer. It occurs, however, in abundance at Syriam, where, 
as a rule, it keeps to the sides of the hills and lower elevations. 
The following is a résume of the dimensions of six specimens 
recorded in the flesh: — 
Length, 75 to 8°25 ; expanse, 9-4 to 10; tail from vent, 3-2 
to 3°6; wing, 3°05 to 3:3 ; tarsus, *82 to °85; bill from gape, ‘82 
to °87. 
Irides, brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 
