RANGOON DISTRICT OF THE IRRAWADDY DELTA. 333 
jungle near Rangoon. It was a male, and measured in the 
flesh.— 
Length, 9°4; expanse, 14°5; tail from vent 3:2; wing, 4°52 ; 
tarsus, 1:3; bill from gape, 1°22. 
Irides, light yellow ; bill, bright orange red, tipped with horny 
yellow, and dusky black at base, naked lores, dull brown; legs 
and feet, yellowish brown. 
688 Quat.—Temenuchus nemoricolus, Jerd.— 
This species appears to be just as common as malabaricus 
from which it does not appear to differ in habits. I have gener- 
ally killed both species together in the same flock. The fol- 
lowing is a resumé of the dimensions of six specimens recorded 
in the flesh :— 
Length, 7:2 to 7:7; expanse, 11°7 to 12°5; tail from vent, 
2°4 to 2:9; wing, 3°7 to 3:99; tarsus, °8 to ‘9; bill, from 
gape, °9 to 1:05. 
Irides, pale yellowish white ; bill, apple green, duller at base, 
and terminal portion bright yellow, tipped and margined with 
lighter yellow ; legs and feet, pale brown or yellowish brown. 
[I have already (8. F., IIL., 151), reproduced Doctor Jerdon’s 
original description of this species, and I mentioned at the 
same time that this description did not correspond over well 
with the type specimen given me by Dr. Jerdon, and I also 
gave a full description of the type specimen. I have now ascer- 
tained that the bird given me by Dr. Jerdon was a young 
bird, which can scarcely have served him as a type, and which 
differs from his type in a most important particular. He says; 
“ Winglet and a spot on the greater coverts pure white,’ and 
several of Dr. Armstrong’s specimens agree perfectly with 
this description, namely, they have the entire winglet and the 
whole of the primary greater coverts white. On the other 
hand the specimen given me by Dr. Jerdon has the winglet 
and primary greater coverts dark brown, but has the median 
eoverts and the secondary greater coverts, fulvous white. 
Ido not now doubt that these all belong to the same species 
or race. I find the amount of white in the wings of these birds 
most variable. In some specimens the winglet and only three 
or four of the primary greater coverts are white; in others 
only some of the winglet feathers and some of the primary 
coverts are white. Again, sometimes it is the anterior ones 
and sometimes it is the posterior ones that are white, sometimes 
white -and brown feathers pretty well alternate; lastly, one 
specimen of Dr. Armstrong’s has, besides the entire winglet 
and primary greater converts, one secondary and the entire 
tail white ! 
