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a large bine uaked patch on each side of the neck." This latter character is very 

 well visible in the skins. While the skin is whitish in other places of the body, 

 these bare patches are slaty black in the skins. It is partly on this peculiarity that 

 Count Salvadori founded his genus Cyanoderma, the " t)'pe " bciag C. erijtkropternn, 

 which has also a dark blue patch of skin on the side of the nock. Much more is 

 this found in }fac-roiius pfi/osns, and it seems suggestive of being blown up at times. 

 This bine patch of skin is not found in Mixornis proper, and the bill in the latter is 

 less straight and the nostrils differently shaped and much more open. It is there- 

 fore advisable to separate Ci/anoderma from Mixornis. On the other hand, the 

 Indian species nificeps. rufifrons, and pyrrhops have no bare blue patch on the 

 neck, and agree in the Iiill and nostrils more with Cyanoderma than with Mixnnu's. 

 They are best separated as Stacliyridopsiti Sharpe (see Oates, Fauna Brit. Tnd. 

 Birds I.), but the three genera Mi-corni-s, Cyanoderma, Stackyridop.ns are closely 

 allied and must be ]ilaced close together. With regard to Dr. Vorderman's descrip- 

 tion of liis specimen from Jlonut Salak, it must be said that the black spots on the 

 side of the neck do not join those of the crop-region, but are widely separated, part 

 of the skin between being naked and blue. Otherwise Vorderman's description is 

 very good. 



10. Orthotomus sepium Horsf. 

 Low country, i. ■' Iris very pale reddish brown ; feet of the same colour." 



11. Prinia familiaris Horsf. 

 Common in the low country. •' Eyelids red ; feet pale reddish ; bill black." 



1:.;. Parus atriceps Horsf. 

 1 ¥ ad., 1 3 juv., 2t)0() to 3oiio feet and low country. ? ad. " Iris very ihirk 

 brown ; bill black ; commissure brown; feet pale slaty blue." In every respect like 

 Parus atriceps typicus from Java. Tiie young bird is tinged with yellow on the 

 abdomen. 



13. Dicaeum flammeum (Sparrm.). 

 Mot with in the low country. 



14. Dicaeum trigonostig^ma (Scop.). 

 A single mah' from between 2iiou and yuoO feet. It is somewhat pale below, 

 but this is probably only an individual character. 



l.'i. Cinnyris pectoralis (Horsf). 

 Low country and Smio to 3iloO feet. '• Iris deep brown : bill and feet black,"' 



10. Anthreptes malaccensis (8cop.). 

 In the low country and between 20oi) and 3000 feet. 'Y\\e. females (two) are 

 grey above, like the Eastern form (.1. m. chloroga.-<ter), but they are in abraded 

 plumage and some new feathers are greenish. The male is not at all like the 

 Eastern form, hnt unite like ^1. m. typii-a. 



IT. Arachnothera affinis (Horsf). 

 2000 to 3000 feet. " Iris dark brown : bill blackish, paler, and somewhat 

 reddish below ; feet pale purplish rcdilish." 



