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Malay Peninsula (tlinii«;li it is fair to admit tliat the cast side of the jK-ninsnla is very 

 little exi)li)red ornitliologically), but is au insular species, occurring on the Andaniaus, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, the Moluccas and New Guinea, and North 

 Australia. 



The Natnnas specimens are rather dark above, with very little brown on tlie 

 back; but in the grand series of the species in the Tring Museum are similarly 

 dark ones. 



The name .1. leucorhyncluiit (Linn.) for this species is, I think, ([uite acceptable 

 (see Sharpe, Cat. B., xiii., pp. :i, 4, o). 



Speaking of tiie peculiar genus Artamus, I may say that they have enormous 

 patches of powder-downs, with a fine whitish powder. This is of great importance, as 

 they seem to he the onh/ Passerine birds that hare powder-downs ! I only made this 

 discovery when arranging the genus in the Tring Museum, but soon found out that 

 Nitzsch {Pferijlogra/)hie, pp. 5:? ami 114, I'l. III., fig. 4, 1840) had already long ago 

 discussed the matter. 



I do not find any mention of this curious fact in any of the recent jiublications 

 about the geuus, and therefore wish to call attention to it. 



Tlie geuus Artamus must certainly stand by itself as family Artaniidae. In the 

 Senckenbergian Catalogue I united with it Artamia from ^Madagascar ; but, although 

 1 had reasons for it, I now thiak that I was utterly wrong in doing so. 



The egg of Artamus/uscus looks quite like a Shrike's egg. 



:54. Calornis chalybea (Horsf.). 

 Several adult specimens from Sirhasseu. They agree with such from Malacca, 

 Sumatra, and Borneo, and cannot be separated. Spread from Tenasserim down the 

 Malay Peninsula and to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, aud adjacent islands. '' Iris scarlet '" 

 (Sirhassen, September 21st, 1893, A. Everett). 



35. Gracula javanensis (Osbeck). 

 Four vcrv large and fine skins, with the wings 7-1 to 7-4 inches, from 

 Sirhassen. Sharpe (Cat. B., xiii., p. H>3, 1890) only gives wing (J-7, aud certainly 

 the majority of s])ecimens of 6r. jacanensis are smaller, but there are in Mr. 

 Rothschild's collection specimens from Sumatra which have the wing as long as 

 the Sirhassen birds. The form of the wattles, colour, etc., agree exactly with 

 specimens from Sumatra, Borneo, etc. Sharpe {I.e.) gives the range of G.javanenjiis 

 as follows : " From South Tenasserim to Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo." 



30. Dissemurus platurus (Vieill.). 

 A series of nine skins from Buii'iurau. They all belong to the small s])ecies 

 without an elongated crest which inhabits Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, and which 

 is very different from the big species of the Himalayas, Assam, etc., with an 

 enormous crest. Perhaps the Javan species is different again, but in any case 

 one species inhabits Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. Vieill. {Nouv. Diet., ix., 

 p. 588) when creating the name /tbilurus, gives no exact locality for the bird he 

 describes, but says that the species inhabits Malabar and Siam, as stated by the 

 authors mentioned by him, and it is only from his expressly saying that his birds 

 had no crest, that the name of Vieillot can be bestowed on the Malayan form 

 of the i-acket-tailed Orougos. Probably it would be better to adopt the name 



