A SECOND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 319 



for the heads, for which there is a great demand iu Siam, 

 Japan and China for carving-. 



165 quint. — Meiglyptes tukki, Less. (M. marginatus, Reinw.) 

 Bankasoon ; rare. 



169 quat. — Thriponax javensis, Less. Bankasoon; not very 

 uncommon. 



176 bis. — Lepocestes porphyromelas, Bote. Not uncommon 

 throughout the extreme south of Tenasserim. 



178 bis. — Micropternus badius,* Baffl. Pakchan; rare. 



185 bis. — Gauropicoides Rafflesi, Vig. Bankasoon; not com- 

 mon. 



190 bis. — Caloramphus Hayii, Gr. Malewoon; rare. 



211 quat. — Chrysococcyx basalis, Horsf. Moulmein ; one 

 specimen only seen and obtained. It is not adult and the 

 identification may therefore not be correct, but it is neither 

 smaragdinus, Bly., or xanthorhynclais, Horsf. 



215 bis. — Rhodopytes Diardi, Less. Malewoon, Bankasoon, &c. ; 

 not rare. 



216 quint. — Poliococcyx sumatranus, Raffi. Common through- 

 out the south of Tenasserim. 



224 ter. — Arachnothera chrysogenys, Tern. Mergui ; not com- 

 mon. 

 224 quat. — Hypogramma nuchalis, Blyth. Rare. 



231 ter. — Chalcostetha insignis, Jard? Patoe Island ; single 

 specimen.f 



232 quat. — Authreptes simplex, Mill. Tenasserim Town, Male- 

 woon ; rare. 



* These are either badius, or belong to a new species. . They do not agree over 

 well with any of the descriptions I can find, or with specimens from the Straits, and 

 not at all with Malherbe's figures or dimensions. They certainly do not belong to 

 phaioceps, Big., or gularis, Jerd. But there is so much confusion as to the members 

 of this little group, and the statements of authors are so contradictory as to badius, 

 badiosus, &c, that until I have time to compare a really large series of the Indian, Ma- 

 layan, and Insular races, I cannot pretend to assert that these Southern Tenasserim 

 birds are positively badius, Eafl. 



f If I have erred in assigning the single specimen (a female) obtained, to this 

 species, I hope the error may be pardoned. No description of the female I believe 

 exists, except in Sch. and Mull, v. N. G. N. O. B, a work not accessible to me. Even 

 of the male I failed to find reliable dimensions. Jardine in the Naturalist's library, 

 XIII., p. 263, gives the length at 36, while Mr. Gould, P. Z. S., p. 663, gives it 

 as 14,75 1 



My specimen is, I should say, clearly a chalcostrfha as defined by Cabanis, with 

 much graduated tail, and in size and shape both of bird and bill it agrees well with 

 Temminck's figure of the male PI. Col. 138, p. 3. 



The following are the dimensions recorded in the flesh of my single female speci- 

 men :— 



Length, 6'1 ; expanse, 7'25 ; tail from vent, T82 ; wing, 2 - 25 ; tarsus, - 55 ; bill 

 from gape, 0"82; at front, straight, - 77; weight, 03 oz. 



The irides were very dark brown ; the bill, legs, feet and claws black. 



The lores, cheeks and ear-coverts brownish grey ; a black line from the gape to 

 the anterior angle of the eye, and a minute black spot at the posterior angle ; a 

 narrow white line surrounds the eye, except where interrupted by this black line and 

 spot ; the forehead, crown and occiput brown, each feather margined with grey, 

 so as to produce a scale-like appearance ; upper parts dark brown, all the feathers 

 margined and sutfused towards the margins with dull olive green, which is the only 



