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BIEDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Lengtli 24 inches, tail 16^ wing 6*5, tarsus 1*3, bill from gape 1*6. The 
female is rather larger than the male. 
The Large Green-billed Malkoha is a common bird all over Pegu_, both 
in the hills and plains. It extends in Tenasserim, according to Mr. Davi- 
son^ as far as Mergui and the Tenasserim river ; Capt. Bingham says it is 
common in the Thoungyeen valley^ and Capt. Wardlaw Bamsay procured 
it in Karennee. It is probably common in Arrakan. 
Out of Burmah it has been found,, according to Mr. Blyth^ at Penang 
and Malacca. Mr. Swinhoe got it in Hainan^ and Dr. Tiraud states that 
it occurs in Cochin China. North of Burmah it ranges through the Indo- 
Burmese countries into India^ being found from the foot of the Himalayas 
down to Central India. 
This species frequents all sorts of jungle, and is as common in orchards 
and spare bush-jungle as in deep forests. It goes about solitary or in 
pairs^ gliding among the branches of trees and shrubs in a quiet manner^ 
seldom displaying itself, notwithstanding its long tail. Its food appears to 
be caterpillars and grasshoppers^ and probably insects of all sorts^ as well as 
small reptiles. It has a low chuckling note. 
I have frequently found the nest of this Malkoha in Pegu from June to 
August. It is a slight structure constructed of a few dead twigs and leaves^ 
and placed in a bush or on a leafy bamboo. The eggs are white, very chalky 
in texture^ and two in number. 
505. RHOPODYTES DIARDI. 
DIARD^S GEEEN-BILLEH MALKOHA. 
Melias diardi, Less. T)-. (TOrn. p. 132. Zanclostomus diardi, Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 81. Rhopodytes diardi, Hume 8r Dav. S. F. vi. p. 163 Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 89. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^ crown^ nape^ upper back^ 
sides of the head and neck ashy grey; remainder of upper plumage 
metallic green tinged with blue ; tail tipped with white ; chin^ throat and 
breast of the same colour as the head but paler, becoming dusky on the 
abdomen and sides of the body and smoky brown on the vent and under 
tail-coverts. 
Legs and feet dark plumbeous green; bill pale green; irides dark 
brown ; the bare orbital space crimson ; edges of eyelids black. {Davison.) 
Length 14 inches, tail 9, wing 5, tarsus 1-2;, bill from gape 1*4. The 
female is of the same size. 
Diard^s Green-billed Malkoha has been found in Tenasserim from 
