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ninth primaries and all the secondaries with a sub-basal white bar 

 on the outer webs ; rectrices blackish, largely tipped with white ; 

 chin and lower parts white. Length, 8 inches ; beak to front, 5y lines ; 

 to gape, 9 lines ; breadth, 3 lines ; wing, 3|- inches ; medial rectrices, 

 3^ inches ; external ditto, 1^ inch ; tarsus, 8 lines ; middle toe and 

 claw, 8 lines ; hind ditto, 5 lines. 



This is a typical species, but is at once distinguished from all the 

 other known species of Pericrocotus by the absence of red or yellow- 

 in the plumage. 



Dicrurus malabaricus. Scop. {D. rangoonensis, Gould ; D. retifeVy 

 Tem.) — Racquet-tailed Dicrurus, with a very short erect frontal 

 crest. 



Dicrurus halicassius (D. affinis, Blyth). — This seems to be the true 

 balicassius of Linnseus, judging from Brisson's description, though I 

 have never seen a specimen from the Philippine Islands to compare 

 with the Malacca bird. 



Lanius lucionensis, Lin. — Having now examined many specimens 

 from the Philippines, Malacca and British India, I find so many vari- 

 ations in the rufous tint of the upper parts, the amount of white on 

 the forehead, and the size of the beak, that I am compelled (con- 

 trary to my former opinion, Ann. Nat. Hist., v. xiv. p. 44) to regard 

 them as forming one widely-spread and variable species. The Ma- 

 lacca specimens exhibit a considerable amount of variation in the 

 size of the beak, and the Philippine ones are generally less rufous 

 than those from India. If this view of specific identity be correct, 

 Lanius cristatus, Lin. ; L. superciliosus, Lath. ; L. phocnicurus, Pallas; 

 L. magnirostris, Belanger; L. melanotis, Valenciennes; L.ferrugi- 

 ceps, Hodgson ; and L. strigatus, Eyton, will all stand as synonyms 

 of Lanius lucionensis, Lin. 



Eupetes macrocercus, Tem. — This form appears to belong to the 

 subfamily Timaliince, a group chiefly confined to the Malasian archi- 

 pelago and the peninsula of Malacca, and which seems to me to in- 

 clude the following genera : Timalia proper, Brachypteryx, Malaco- 

 pteron, Macronus, and one or two others. They are distinguished 

 by great density of plumage, especially on the rump, a more or less 

 shrike-like beak, well-developed legs, and a coloration in which 

 rufous and brown predominate. Little is known of their habits, but 

 they probably form a subfamily of the Laniidce, and may be placed 

 next to Formicariince, in which most of the South American Tham- 

 nophili and Antcatchers should be included. 



Malacopteron olivaceum, Strickland. M. supra olivaceo-hrun- 

 neum, remigibus fuscis, extus rufo-brunneo, inius albido marqi- 

 natis ; rectricibus rufo-brunneis, rufo marginatis ; loris superci- 

 liisque cinerascentibus, mento et guld sordide albidis, pectore 

 lateribusque pallide olivaceis, abdomine pallide fulvo , crisso pal- 

 lide rufo. 



Upper parts olive-brown ; remiges fuscous, edged externally with 

 reddish brown and internally with whitish ; tail reddish brown, mar- 



