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clearings in the primeval forest regions. Near Bång Hiie Horn it was the most com- 

 mon of all Sun-birds and only from the environs of this place did I get this fine 

 species. On the 24th of February I shot a female which had big eggs in the ovary, 

 I also savv the male and it would not leave the place where I had killed its female. 

 With a soft whistling note it at last flow away, but very soon it appeared again. 

 At la.st I shot it and foiind its genital organs greatl}^ swoUen. I am quite sure that 

 the birds had tlieir nest close by but though I made a very careful search I was 

 not able to find it 



J* V-' 1912 JJaug Huc Horn. 

 Length -- 110 mm. 

 Wing = 55 » 

 Tail ^ 43 ^ 

 Culmen ^ 16 » 



(^ -V-' 1-'12 Baiig Hue Honi. 

 Length -- 115 mm. 

 Wing -= 52,5 » 

 Tail =-43 ^ 

 Culmen =16 » 



^ "/a 1912 Baiig Huc IIoiii. 

 Length =108 mm. 

 Wing = 52 » 

 Tail = 42 » 

 Culmen - 16,5 » 



$ ^V-j 1912 Baug Hue Honi. 

 Length =104 mm. 

 Wing = 47,5 > 

 Tail 33 » 



Culmen =14 » 



On the 23rd of February 1912 I also shot near Bång Hue Hom a specimen 

 of Aethopyga cara Hume. which is of some different plumage. 



It is probably an immature male [though labelled female.] and the descrip- 

 tion of this specimen is a follows. 



Description : Forehead and crown dull greenish olive with brown centres to the 

 feathers; back and scapulars greenish olive yellow with some red spöts on some of 

 the feathers on the middle of the back; upper tail-coverts påle greenish olive; under 

 surface of body påle yellowish green; sides of body and under tail-cov^erts of the 

 same colour as the under surface but still paler; tail-feathers blackish brown mar- 

 gined with greenish olive and with a reddish wash on some of the margins of the 

 feathers, especially near the base ; some of the tail-feathers with a whitish spöt near 

 the tips of the feathers; quills brown edged with olive yellow on the outer webs; 

 end of wing olive yellow with some red spöts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white with a påle yellowish wash on some of the feathers. 



Length = 102 mm. 

 Wing = 48 » 

 Tail = 33 » 

 Culmen = 16 » 



78. Arachnechthra asiatica Lath. — The Purple Sun-bird was never obser- 

 ved in the evergreen primeval forests, but in the dry forests it was very common. 

 I also found this species in Fastern Siam on the more open with only a few bushes 

 covered plains which occupy sucli great träets in this part of Siam. As a rule this 



