

It also occurs further north in Native Burmah ; but how far north it extends we are as yet 

 ignorant." 



According to Mr. Oates's remarks (Str. F. iii. p. 85), which I quote herewith, it is " very 

 common on the Pegu hills, and not uncommon in the plains ; I lately saw a specimen on the 

 banks of the Irrawaddy, near Thayetmyo. It is not met with in large quantities till the ever- 

 green forests are reached ; it has a curious habit of stretching out its neck, when perching, to 

 such an extent as to appear about to overbalance itself. A male that I shot measured — length 

 7 1 inches, wing 3*25, bill from gape 1*6 ; a female measured — length 6*45, expanse 9*5, tail 

 from vent 1*7, wing 2 - 95, bill from gape 1*48, tarsus - 8, bill black, margin of lower mandible 

 yellow, inside of mouth and claws yellow, iris brown, eyelids plumbeous, legs and feet waxy 

 orange." 



Mr. Hume writes to me : — " Consider the first paragraph of page 86 (Str. F. iii.) cancelled, 

 except : — ' in both magna and apparently aurita the females are considerably smaller than the 

 males.' 



" It is true that the male A. aurita is almost of the same dimensions as the female A. magna, 

 and also that the striations on the back of the female A. magna are somewhat less marked than 

 in the male ; but the male A. aurita with its excessively fine striae of the lower surface and its 

 almost unstriated back can never be mistaken for the female of A. magna." 



The lower figure in the illustration represents this species. 



The specimens figured and described were shot by Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay, and are in 

 the Marquis of Tweeddale's collection. 



