194 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
species and not the preceding, was shot by me at Thyetmyo. 
I-have also got the bird from Karennee, the only perfectly 
adult male I have. We may conclude that it occurs in all 
suitable localities in the province. 
It frequents orchards and clumps of trees, and lives amongst 
the leaves, where it 1s not easy to detect it. IJ have not heard 
its note. 
At no age does the female ever assume the violet plumage 
of the adult male, nor even a single violet feather. I feel 
pretty certain that both basalis, Horsf., and malayanus, Raff., 
are based on females of this species. 
It is to be noted with reference to this that in the list of 
these birds given at page 506, 8S. F., VI, all Mr. Hume’s 
zanthorhynchus are-males, all his malayanus,* except one 
unsexed bird, are females. 
In the adult female, the whole lower surface, from the chin 
to the tip of the under tail-coverts, the lores, cheeks, ear- 
coverts and sides of neck are white, closely barred across with 
greenish bronze; the bars on the under tail-coverts are 
broader and wider apart than elsewhere; the head, neck, 
back, rump and upper tail-coverts are shining bronze, tinged 
with copper on the head; the forehead and over the eye are 
speckled with white; the lesser wing-coverts are brilliant 
bronze, each feather narrowly edged with rufous; the greater 
coverts are less brilliant, and are broadly notched all round 
with rufous; primaries brown, glossed with green, very 
narrowly edged with rufous, and the later ones also tipped 
with the same; the inner web of all with a broad streak of 
rufous along the basal two-thirds of the edge; secondaries and 
tertiaries greenish bronze, edged all round with rufous; centre 
pair of rectrices uniform bronze green, tinged with blue near 
the tip; the next pair has on each web alternate triangular 
patches of greenish brown and rufous ; the bases of the brown 
patches and the apices of the rufous ones lying next the shaft. 
In the next pair the brown patches are less in extent, each 
pair being fully separated from the next by the rufous; the 
tip is white; the next pair again is very similar, the brown 
being still further reduced and the white tip broader; the 
outer pair is rufous, with four black bars, and on the outer 
web between each pair of black bars there is a white patch ; 
the tip is broadly white. 
In less mature females the central rectrices are barred 
greenish brown and rufous ; the white spots on the outer pair 
* But I find in the museum two specimens of malayanus, sexed by dissection by 
eae as males, I don’t think he could have made ¢wo mistakes like this.— 
DS. FB, i 
