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was cuculoides. It is coloured almost exactly like A. Brodiei, from 

 which it differs in its much larger size. The bird I now send is the 

 Tenasserim substitute for my A. radiata, which it almost exactly resem- 

 bles in note and habits : being diurnal and crepuscular ; whereas A. Bro- 

 diei and the other above alluded to are strictly nocturnal, and have a 

 very different note." — We can detect no difference between this and other 

 Tenasserim specimens, and others from the Himalaya, and one from 

 Chusan; and have repeatedly received examples from Asam, Sylhet, 

 and Arakan. 



"The Barbet," continues Capt. Tickell, "I have shot at Darjiling, where 

 it is not common.* But in the Tenasserim mountains it swarms from 

 3,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation, not higher, nor lower, — and from the first 

 level it suddenly and entirely supplants M. lineata, the Pohoung of the 

 Burmese. As long as day lasts, the woods amongst the Dauna hills 

 resound with its cry— plow, plow, plow, &c. &c. There is another Barbet, 

 smaller and resembling apparently the M. indica, which is also pretty 

 common, from 1,000 to 3,500 ft. ; but it settles solely on the summits of 

 the hugest trees, calling out tapral, tajpral, tapral, by the hour together ; 

 and I have found it impossible to procure with the gun : so small an 

 object at such a vast height cannot be hit.f Mr. Parish, our chaplain, 

 was with me on one of my excursions, and measured the trunk of one of 

 these giants of the forest which had fallen across a little brook. The 

 smooth bole, before a single limb branched out, was 130 ft. long." 



The Phcenicophaus curvirostris and Phyllornis Sonneratii have 

 heretofore been only known as Malasian species. The former was observed 

 by Capt. Tickell " on low jungly hills, — very like Ph. tristis in habits : 

 scarce : a pair shot were both precisely similar, except in colour of iris ; 

 the male having that cobalt blue, and the female orange. Pood Coleojotera, 

 Hemiptera, and very large caterpillars. 



" Harpactes erythrocephalus was common in the hills from 3,000 

 ft. upwards. Below that it is replaced by H. oreskios. It flies in small 

 troops, and is active and vociferous in the morning, solitary and quiet 

 during the heat of the day, sitting in the shade. It appears larger and 

 brighter than in Nepal and Sikim." The specimens sent are certainly 

 brighter than, but do not exceed in dimensions, others from Darjiling, 

 Sylhet, &c. 



* Mr. Hodgson procured it in Nepal ; and we have received it from the Khasya 

 hills, and from those of Arakan. — Cur. As. Soc. 



t Probably M. trimaculata (var. cyanotis). Cur. As. S&e. 



