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5. Acridotheres cinereus. 



Acridotheres cinereus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 420 (1850, ea- MiiUer MSf>' ) ■ 

 Graij,IIand-l. B. ii. p. 20, no. G281J (1870) ; Walden, Trans, z'. 8 

 Tiii. p. 77, pi. X. fig. 1 (1874) ; Mexjer, Ibis, 1879, p. 134. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey ; scapulars like the 

 back, and slightly lighter ashy ; upper tail-coverts grey ; lesser 

 wing-coverts brown, edged with ashy grey; median and greater 

 coverts brown ; bastard-wing black, the inner feather white exter- 

 nally ; primary-coverts white, blackish at the extreme base ; quills 

 black, white at the extreme base of the primaries, the secondaries 

 brown like the greater coverts ; tail-feathers blackish brown, broadly 

 tipped with white, forming a terminal band ; crown of head ashy 

 black, the crest-feathers long, with a short recurved crest over the 

 nostrils ; hind neck like the back ; lores, eyelid, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and cheeks ashy blackish ; chin, malar line, throat, sides of 

 neck, and fore neck ashy grey ; chest and remainder of under surface 

 of body lighter ashy, the abdomen greyish white ; sides of body, 

 flanks and thighs light ashy grey ; under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries dark ashy brown, edged with white; 

 quills below blackish, with a white patch at the base of the primaries'. 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-1, Aving 5-35, tail 3-3, tarsus 

 1"35. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total leno'th 

 U inches, culmen 1-05, wing 4-9, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-3. ° 



Hah. Celebes and Togian Islands. 



(I, b. S 2 ad. sk. Makassar, Celebes. Wallace Coll 



c. cS ad. sk. Makassar {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll 



d. 2 ad. sk. Makassar {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. )^ ad. sk. Tanette, S. Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C 1 



6, Acridotheres grandis. 



Pastor cristatellus {nee L.), Fit/. Mem. Rajfl. p. 064 (1830). 



Acridotheres grandis, Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E.T. Co ii p 537 

 (185(3) *; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 20, no. 6288 ( \S7Q). 



Acridotheres javanicus {nee Cab.), Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151. 



Acridotheres siamensis, Sivinh. P. Z. <S'. 1863, p. 303; Gray Hand-l 

 B. ii. p. 20, no. 6286 (1870) ; Stvinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 303 • Ward- 

 law Ramsay, Ibis, 1875, p. 351, 1877, p. 461 ; Walden, in Bh/th 

 B. Burm. p. 90 (1875) ; id. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 203 (1877) ; Ward- 

 laio Ramsay, This, 1877, p. 460 ; Anders. Zool. E.iped. Yunnan 

 p. 594 (1878) ; Hume 4'- Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 388 (1878); Tiraud 

 Bull. Soc. A(/rie. Cochin China, 1879, p. 136; Hutne Str F 

 viii. p. 106 (1879), ix. p. 285; Oate^, B. Brit. Burm.'i. p. 381 

 (1883); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) iv. p 603 (1887") • 

 Hume, Str. F.\x.^.2U(lSm). ^ '' 



* The types of A. grandis were received from the ludia Museum in 1880 

 and are marked as from Sumatra. ' 



