2?0f ORNITHOLOGY'. 



BROAD-BILL. 



Foar species of manakins, or broad bills, birds frith tf 

 short and excessively broad bill, inhabit the Provinces, 

 and Capt. Phayre met with a fifth species in Arracan. 

 Eurylaimus javanicus. 

 Cymbirhynchos nasutus. 



affinis, (Arracan.) 

 Serilophus lunatus. 

 Cory don sumatranus. 

 gcSaooSi! (Arracan.) 



COMOBILLED BIRDS* 



The Conirostres, or conic-billed birds, form a numer- 

 ous class of crows, pies, mynahs, starlings, finches, spar- 

 rows, buntings, larks, and hornb/lls. 



CROW. 



Three different crows are seen on the east side of the 

 Bay of Bengal, and all differ from the common European 

 and American crows. The " common India crow, some- 

 times mistaken for the jackdaw," is seen from Calcutta to 

 Akyab ; southward through the Provinces to Malacca, 

 the 1 ' common India black crow, often erroneously term- 

 ed raven," abounds; and in the Straits of Malacca, and 1 

 think in the Karen forests, the large-billed crow is com* 

 mon. 



Mr Blyth had a species of blue magpie, which he says 

 inhabits the mountains between Arracan and Pegu. 

 Psilorhinus magnirostris, Blyth. 



Pica, " Vigors and Gmelin, 



