F . K ' r i m O C E E O S .-.UBEUFICOLLIS
lUIYTlDOCEllOS SUEllUFICOLLIS.
l i L Y T n ' S W E EATHE D lIOENIilLL.
» » „ / » » i . , .T»u,.. A » . . See, (1 8 « , ,01. p. 177, (1«9, p. B.*., lou™. A.i.t,
B ™ « ; : W . A - . Soc. B e . , ,01. p. 001, ,o,. , » . .... M,„. A . . . S,..
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«,„ I t t » s ™ ^ * C.I.. & Uoiu. M. . . H.m. (I860) Ti , ii. p, 172- 47-1; Tw.oM.k,, ftto (1877) p,
J i I L ( B ' . J « » - o . ) f ™ » , « o l l , I l . i . ( 1 8 6 4 ) p . l 8 0 .
Buc^a. (BkyH,.:.) Qr „ , , ILnd-L B. (1870) p.. >., p. 129. .p-88C.
A e r o . Bl j th, Cat. M.m». & Bird. B»™. , (1875) p. 69. .p. -2.
1 I „ . T„ „ . . ™ B „ ™ . . (B™.); Soutl-a 81.» S t . . .ot Si.m (T,c..u.); L.,v„ , iv„, N.W.
Borneo (USSHEH).
This bird scp».tccl b , Blyth from tho w»U.k„o„ n M. pUcaiu. , on account of tbc
base o£ the mandible bcin^ smooth and , i thont the transvc.,e ridges - ^
snceies In M. mtrufiooUi. the mandible never possesses at any age ot the bird t t e roughened
n X c As this diilienec appears to be a permanent one, it wonl d secnr to be snffiocnt to grvc
T c ™ birds distinct speoihe ranlc. Their gcograplried distnbntion also is not the same th
present species ranging rather more to the northward than its ally, and never gomg mto the
» pe n i n s n l f . -y also be disUngnished . ^ i ^
transverse b » on tire gaiar sldn of cither sex, that part bcrng yello,. m the male, blue m the
em r Lieut. W a r d L Eamsay observed this dilterence between the spec.es to have been con
stant in a large series of examples collectcd by him i n the district of Tonghoo, Tenasscnm
I ^ c g a r a to the curious sealy c a s , . c possessed by this bird and its allres Mr. Blyth found,
after exanJiningnnnrerous specimens, that in no instance did the number of transverse rrdges
e x c L d seven, and he deemed it obviously apparent that they scaled off antenorly as they were
mislied forward by the (n-owtb of those at the base of the maxilla.
' TieMl says, spealrr^g of this bird under the name ot B . r ^ . r a n , that i t is very numerous rn
the Tenasserhn Provinces and in the mland forests of Arakan. Its voice is a short grutt eroak
l i k e « kuk kuk , " repeated at intervals. The flight is slow and regular, eapablc of being continued
for a .reat distance; and the noise made by the air rushing through the feathers of the wrngs is so
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