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the same as the Javan species. The latter has a totally black 

 under surface from the lower throat to the abdomen, and has 

 the lores and region of the eye finely vermiculated, or lined 

 with black and white, like the rest of the face, whereas the 

 Malayan birds have a uniform fulvous space in front of 

 the eye. 



Professor Sundevall, in his ' Conspectus Avium Picinarum ' 

 (p. 92), thought that the differences might be due to age ; but 

 he was acquainted with the true M. tristis from Java^ a speci- 

 men of which he saw in the Berlin Museum, and he was evi- 

 dently inclined to consider it a distinct bird. I think there 

 can be no doubt on the subject, from a comparison of speci- 

 mens ; and that the Malaccan and Bornean birds must be 

 separated as M. grammitliorax, Malherbe. 



Dendrotypes analis. 



Dendrotypes analis (Horsf.), Salvad. t.c. p. 40; Tweedd. 

 /. c. p. 290. 



A large series, apparently showing that the species is very 

 common in this part of Java. 



Jyngipicus fusco-albidus. 



Yungipicus fusco-ulbidiis, Salvad. /. c. p. 42 ; Tweed. /. c. 

 p. 290. 



Several specimens. 



Pal.eoknis javanicus. 



PalcEoi'nis javanica (Osb.), Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 25. 



An adult specimen. 



Megal.ema lineata. 



Megalama lineaia (Vieill.), Marshall, Monogr. Capit. pi. 

 xxxvii. 



Two adult specimens. 



XANTHOLiEMA ROSEA. 



XantholcBina rosea (Dumont), Marsh. Monogr. Capit. pi. 

 xliii. ; Tweedd. t. c. p. 299. 



Two adult and two younger birds. The young plumage is 

 not described in Captain Marshall's work. It is not unlike 

 that of the adults, but more dingy green, the throat beiug 



