40 Mr, Blyth's Commentary 



yard (Ann. Mag. N. H. 1854, xiii. p. 217), from Ceylon, is 

 another very distinct species of Temenuchus. 



690. Pastor roseus. 



The young of this species in the first or nestling-plumage 

 was sent to me from Ceylon by Mr. Layard. Dr. Jerdon re- 

 marks that most of the specimens met with in India are young 

 birds in imperfect plumage. He alludes rather to those in 

 winter garb, wherein the colours of the plumage are overlaid 

 with the brown edgings to the feathers ; as the latter disappear, 

 the colouring brightens considerably, and there is hardly any 

 external diflference between the sexes. 



693. EuLABES RELiGiosA is morc common in Ceylon than 

 E. ptilogenys. The egg is described by Mr. Day {' Land of the 

 Permauls,' Madras : ] 863, p. 464) as being of " a blue colour, 

 1 X j^ inch in size," 



693. EuLABEs INTERMEDIA (A. Hay); Gracula religiosa, 

 Vieill. Gal. des Ois. pi. 95, is the species of the Andaman 

 and Nicobar Islands, and is therefore the Nicobar bird noticed 

 as Gracula indica in the narrative of the ' Novara ' Expedition, 

 but called G.javana in the special ornithological part of the 

 voyage (Von Pelzeln, Reise 'Novara,' i. p. 88). I once re- 

 ceived a living albino from one of the Nicobar Islands. 



695 and 696. Plocbus manyar and P. bengalensis. 

 These two species commonly associate in the same flock. 

 The P. bengalensis of Sundevall is P. bay a. The true P.philip- 

 pinus (L,), Loxia hypoxantha, Dand,, was sent from Siam by 

 the late Sir R. H. Schomburgk. Loxia javanensis, Lesson, is 

 identified with P. philippinus (verus) by Dr. Pucheran (Rev. 

 Zool. 1854, p. 67). 



697. The true Munia malacca from Borneo (in Mr. Wal- 

 lace's Collection) is distinct from the Indian race ; and another 

 of the same particular type, M. formosana, is described by Mr. 

 Swinhoe (Ibis, 1865, p. 356). 



700. Munia pectoralis. 



The Ceylon bird described under this name, with a mark of 

 doubt (J. A. S. B. XX. p. 178), I have since designated M. kelaarti. 



