336 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
Females.—Length, 8:5 to 8:82; expanse, 15:12 to 16°82 ; wing, 
4°82 to 5; tail from vent, 2°5; tarsus, 0-9 to 1; bill from gape, 
1 to 1°12. 
The legs and feet are in some a pinkish chrome yellow, in 
others a dingy fleshy orange, or a dull orange yellow; the 
claws, black, or dingy greenish blue. The bill is yellow, in 
some slightly brownish, in some greenish, more or less green- 
ish at the gape, and bluish at the base of the lower mandible. 
The irides are very dark brown; the eyelids, black ; the orbital 
skin in some a pale dingy orange, with fleshy tint, in some 
gamboge yellow, in some clear bright pale orange. 
The adults of both sexes appear to be quite similar, and have 
the lores, forehead, crown, occiput, and a full short occipital 
crest, the chin, the upper throat, as far back as the centre of 
the eyes, and a triangular point projecting downwards in the 
centre of the lower portion of the throat, golden yellow. 
The first six primaries have a broad white patch on the inner 
webs near the bases, the seventh has a small white patch also 
on the inner web, and the second to the seventh have a corre- 
sponding patch on the outer webs strongly tinged with golden 
rellow. 
: The whole of the rest of the plumage of the bird, except the 
inner webs of the quills, which are deep hair brown, is_ black, 
glossed with a dull green metallic reflection. 
The young birds probably want the golden yellow on the 
throat and head. The youngest bird that I possess, has 
the lores and the whole front andtop of the head black, but with 
a few golden feathers intermingled on the forehead and anterior 
half of the crown. There is also much less of the golden 
yellow on the chin and throat.—A. O. H.] 
704 bis.—Estrelda burmanica, Hume. (Vide, infra p.) 
This little bird appears to be very rare throughout the entire 
district. I have only once met with a single pair, a few miles 
from Elephant Point, amongst the tall grass ridges, which 
form the boundaries between the paddy-fields. It always 
rested upon some tall grass panicle, feeding apparently upon the 
seed, and when disturbed, would fly across the paddy-field to 
some neighbouring ridge of grass, where it would again settle. 
The following are the dimensions of a male recorded in the 
flesh :-— 
Length, 4:2 ; expanse, 5°35 ; tail from vent, 1°5 ; wing, 1°75 ; 
tarsus, ‘51; bill from gape, °33. 
Trides, crimson ; upper surface of upper mandible, black at its 
base, remainder of bill bright red; legs and feet, flesh, color. 
