188 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
80.—Alcedo meningting, Horsf. (1385 ter; ? quat.) 
Until I have had an opportunity of comparing my series of 
this bird with others from India and Java, I prefer calling the 
Pegu birds by the above name.* It is common in the wooded 
nullahs running into the Pegu river above Pegu, and also in a 
patch of hilly jungle two miles north of Kyeikpadein, where 
I have found numerous nests. I have not observed it any- 
where else. ; 
Young birds able to fly have the bill black with the tip 
white ; the legs pale red and the iris dark brown. One young 
bird, probably a male, has the whole upper plumage just as 
bright as the adult male, and the cheeks and ear-coverts blue. 
Another, probably a female, has the upper plumage much 
duller than the adult. The ear-coverts and cheeks are rufous 
with a slight intermixture of blue. Adult females have the 
cheeks and ear-coverts blue and rufous, mixed in about equal 
quantities. In the adult male the ear-coverts are black, and 
the part under the ears, as well as the cheeks, are blue, obso- 
letely barred with black. 
81.—Ceryle rudis, Lin. (136.) 
Excessively common, but confined entirely to the plains. 
82.—Psarisomus dalhousiz, Jam. (1388.) 
I have observed this bird only in the evergreen forests lying 
on the route from Thyetmyo to Tounghoo on the eastern slopes 
of the Pegu hills. It appears to be tolerably common in these 
parts. 
83.—Serilophus lunatus, Gould. (139 dis.) 
Appears to be common over the whole of the Pegu_ hills in 
good thick forest. I also shot one bird as low down as 
Kyeikpadein and took its nest there. 
84.—Cymborhynchus affinis, Bly. (139 quat.) 
Although a bird of the Arakan hills, this species comes into 
the limits of this paper at many points between Bassein and 
Rangoon. Mr. Strettell gave me a specimen labelled “10 
miles east of Rangoon.’? I have many specimens procured 
near Yandoon on the Irrawaddy. Fora note on the plumage 
of this bird, see S. F., III, p. 386. 
85.—Dichoceros cavatus, Shaw. (140.) 
Abundant throughout Pegu in forest country, It does not 
come out much into the comparatively treeless plains of Lower 
Pegu, except when the peepul trees are in fruit. 
* Both our Pegu birds are of the intermediate form, which in Vol. VI, p. 84, 
T have entered as A. beavani. This form differs as explained, loc cit, and LY, 383, 
alike from beavani and meningting.—Kv., 8. F 
