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feathers about 1'8; the next pair about 2*4; the next about 3" 8 ; 

 and the external pair of all about 5 inches shorter than the central 

 and longest pair; tarsus, T05 to 1*15; hind toe and claw about 

 0'8 ; bill, from gape, l - to 1*1 ; from margin of frontal feathers 

 straight to tip about 0*8. The sixth primary, the longest ; the 

 fifth, a hair's breadth shorter ; the fourth, O'l ; the third, 035 ; the 

 second, 1*0; and the first, 2" 1 shorter than the longest. Weight, 

 1-75 to 2 oz. 



Bill, legs, feet, and claws, black ; irides, turquoise blue, darken- 

 ing towards pupil, where it is almost ultra-marine. 



A broad velvet black band covers the base of the lower man- 

 dible, the lores, and the front of the forehead. The whole of the 

 rest of the bird, except the quills and rectrices, a dark metallic 

 green, much the same kind of color as in Calornis, and with more 

 or less of a bronzy tinge, most strongly marked on the rump and 

 upper tail coverts and on the abdomen. The tibial plumes, 

 vent, and lower tail coverts are a deep brown, almost wanting 

 any trace of the metallic lustre. The primaries are black, with 

 a slight green metallic lustre on the outer webs. The secondai-ies 

 and tertiaries also black, but with the same dark green metallic 

 lustre on the outer webs and tips that is exhibited by the rest of 

 the upper surface of the bird, and with more of less of green 

 lustre on the inner webs also. The tail, black ; the central tail 

 feathers, expanded into a broad racquet shape at their tips, and 

 all of them more or less suffused with a dark green metallic 

 lustre, most marked towards the outer webs of the lateral feathers 

 towards their bases. 



Subsequently Mr. Oates remarked : " The bird referred to as 

 the one shot at unsuccessfully was undoubtedly, as you surmised, 

 C. varians. An adult female in splendid plumage, which I lately 

 shot in Pegu town, had the iris red with a beautiful outer ring 

 or sclerotic of blue (?) ; eyelids thickly feathered, with the excep- 

 tion of a small portion low down, which is plumbeous. Bill, legs, 

 and claws, black ; inside of mouth, flesh color ; ovaria, minute ; 

 food, entirely insects. 



" When shot it was thoroughly overhauling the outer branches 

 of a Mango tree, and while doing so uttered a remarkably loud 

 and disagreeable note.'" 



678 ter. — Crypsirina cuculata, Jerdon. 



Mr. Oates says : " This is a common bird for twenty miles round 

 Thayetmyo ; it seems very local, but it may extend north some 

 distance beyond the frontier. It goes singly or in pairs ; occa- 

 sionally I have seen as many as six together ; it wanders from 

 tree to tree, much as Doidroeitta nefa does. It was certainly 

 not breeding on the 11th May, when I shot several specimens 



