330 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
from China-Ba-keer. It was a male and gave the following 
measurements in the flesh :— 
Length, 6°75; expanse, 9:5; tail from vent, 2:8; wing, 3; 
tarsus, ‘8; bill from gape, ‘9. 
Irides, nearly black; upper mandible, dusky brown; lower 
mandible, fleshy white; legs and feet, purplish white; claws, 
horny white. 
596.—Pipastes maculatus, Hodgs. 
This species was met with sparingly in the thin tree jungle 
and amongst the isolated clumps of trees in the vicinities of 
Rangoon and Syriam. A female specimen killed at Rangoon 
measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 6°5; expanse, 10°25; tail from vent, 2°5 ; wing, 3°3; 
tarsus, *87; bill from gape, ‘68. 
Irides, dark brown; upper mandible, dusky brown, paler at 
margin; lower mandible, light yellowish brown; legs and feet, 
pale brown; claws, horny brown. 
599.—Corydalla Richardi, Viezllot. 
This species was extremely abundant in the paddy-fields and 
amongst the marshes and open swamps near Elephant Point 
and China-Ba-keer. The following are the dimensions of four 
males recorded in the flesh:— 
Length, 7°6 to 7:8 ; expanse, 11:5 to 12°2; tail from vent, 3 to 
3°2; wing, 3°45 to 3:7; tarsus, 1:2 to 1-22; bill from gape, ‘8 
to *85. 
Irides, dark brown; upper mandible, dusky brown; lower 
mandible, pale browish white, tipped with dusky brown; legs 
and feet very pale brown; claws, horny brown. 
600.—Corydalla rufula, Vierllot. 
This species was abundant in the cultivated and open waste 
ground around Rangoon and in the neighbourhood and Elephant 
Point. A female measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 6°2 ; expanse, 10°25; wing, #27; tail from vent, 
2°45; tarsus, ‘98; bill from gape, °75. 
Irides, dark brown; upper mandible,: dull brown; lower 
mandible, dirty whitishtipped with brown; legs and feet, pale 
brown; claws, horny brown. 
645.—Parus cesius, Zickell, 
This species was met with abundantly in the open tidal jungle, 
bordering portions of the coast between Elephant Point and 
China-Ba-keer, and also in similar localities along the margin of 
the Rangoon river at astern Grove. It is a very active little 
