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Adult. Similar to A. cnsiaiellHs, but distinguished by its enormous 

 crest, black bastard-primary, wliite under tail-coverts, and much 

 broader white tips to the tail-feathers : " bill rich wax-yellow ; feet 

 wax-yellow, claws brown ; iris light reddish brown or hazel " (A. 0. 

 Hume). Total length 9 inches, culmen about 1*1, wing 5-5, 

 tail 3-1, tarsus 1-6. 



The Manipur birds are not nearly so strongly crested as the speci- 

 mens from Siam, but those from the Tenasserim frontier are inter- 

 mediate. Moore's A. gvamlis from Sumatra is absolutely the same 

 bird as A. siamensis, and it is doubtful if the specimens are really 

 from Raffles's collection. 



Ilah. Cochin China, Siam and Cambodia to Upper Burma, and 

 thence to Manipur. 



a. Ad. sk. Siam (Sir It. Schomhuryk), Seebohm Coll. 



(Type of A. siamensis.') 



b. Ad. sk. Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. 

 c,d. cJ ad.sk. Bangkok, March 29, 1872 {Coiirad). E. B. Sharps, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Siam. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Cambodia (Mouhot). Tweeddale Coll. 

 'y, h. (S ad. sk. Kareu-nee, March 1S74 {R. G. W. R.). Tweeddale Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Burmah. W. T. Blanford, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Mungla, Sauda Valley, May 18, 1868. Dr. J. Anderson 



/. 6 ad. sk. Moirang, Manipm-, March 21, 1881 Hume Coll. 



(A. 0. H.). 

 m. c? ad. sk. Soognoo, Manipur, March 26, 1881 Hume CoU. 



{A. O.H.). 

 n. <S ad. sk. Logtak Lake, Manipur, March 18, Hume Coll. 



1881 {A. O. H.). 

 o. S ad. sk. Kokshin-Koolel, April 7, 1881 {A. Hume Coll. 



O.H.) 

 p, q. Ad. sk. Tenasserim River, Dec. and Jan. Hume Coll. 



r, s. Ad. sk. [Sumatra (Raffles).'] India Museum. 



(Types of A. grandis, Moore.) 



7. Acridotheres cristatellus. 



The Chinese Starling or Blackbird, Edwards, N. H. Birds, i. pi, 19 



(1743). 

 Le Merle hup6 de la Chine, Rnss. Orn. ii. p. 253 (1760) ; Davbent. 



PL Enl. iv. pi. 507 ; Moiith. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 367 (1775). 

 Crested Grakle, Lath. Gen. Spi. ii. pt. i. p. 464 (1783). 

 Gracula cristatella, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 397 (1788). 

 Acridotberes ater, Ron7i. et Vieill. E^ic. Meth. ii. p. 692 (1823) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 20, no. 6290 (1870). 

 Acridotberes cristatellus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 691 



(1823); Blyth, J. A. S. Benq. xv. p. 33 (1846) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 108 (1849) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 205 (1850) ; 



Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 536 (1856) ; Sioinh. 



Ibis, 1860, pp. 60, 429, 1861, p. 44, 1862, p. 260 ; id. P. Z. S. 186-3, 



p. 302 ; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 382 ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 387 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 384 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 19, no. 6283 (1870) ; Waldeti, 



