24. Lieut. W. V. Lcgge on the Distribution of 



Morowa-Korle coffce-couutry in 1871, frequenting the edges 

 of forests, and hopping actively, Bulbul-like, about among the 

 leaves of fruit-bearing trees, clinging, Tit-like, to the twigs, 

 and uttering a single note, which I find jotted down in my 

 rough memoranda as veiy Starling-like. I subsequently 

 found it in numbers in "cheena^^ clearings in the Singha 

 forest, which is a continuation of the Morowa-Korlc hills, 

 being simply divided from them by the deep gorges of the 

 Gindurah. In the mornings it fed, in company with flocks 

 of PaliBornis calthropa, on the seeds or fruit of the Kanda-tree 

 {Macaranga tonieniosa) growing near the edges of the jungle ; 

 and in the heat of the day I observed it hopping about the 

 leaves of Jack-trees searching for insects. On procuring spe- 

 cimens the stomachs proved to contain a mixed diet. In the 

 evenings they became restless, in just the same manner as the 

 Hill-Mynah, Eulabes ptilogenys, and roamed about the val- 

 leys, alighting on the tops of dead trees in small parties of 

 two and three. Layard got his specimen from Mr. Thwaites, 

 and believed it was procui'cd in the Saffi-agam district, which 

 is the opposite slope of the central mountains on the north 

 side of the valley which divides them from the ranges I now 

 speak of. Males measure in the flesh 8"3"j wing 4"2"; tail 

 2*7"; tarsus nearly 1*1"; bill from gape 1"1". The iris is 

 whitish, with a brown inner circle ; bill light glaucous green, 

 bluish about the base ; legs and feet bluish slate. The female 

 differs materially from the male in the character of its color- 

 ation, in having far more white on the head, and in the neutral 

 grey of the under surface being much more in extent. These 

 parts may be described thus : — forehead, front of crown, side 

 of head just over the eye, face, ear-coverts, chin, and gorge 

 white ; fore neck and the sides (gradually blending thence into 

 the ashy black of the hind neck), chest, breast, and flanks 

 neutral grey or bluish cinereous, the feathers with fine white 

 shafts ; on the belly the feathers commence to be edged 

 greyish white until the abdomen and under tail-covcrts be- 

 come entirely of that colour. In the male the forehead alone 

 is Avhite, with a buff" tinge, ending abruptly at the crown, the 

 white of tlie throat descends further to the neck ; and the 



