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II AB. S India ; Ceylon ; Deyra Doon (?) 



A. B. C. Specimens from Coylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. 

 (1848). D. Male (interscapularies wholly black exter- 

 nally.) E. Another (back injured.) F. G. Younger males. 

 //. /. Females. S. India. T. C. Jerdou, Esq. (1843-4). 



1293. I. TYPHiA (Edwards, pi. 79). 



Syn. MotaciUa tyiihia, L. 



Ficedida bengalensis, Brisson. 

 Fatikja, and Toufik, Beng. 

 IIab. Bengal ; Nepal ; Asam ; Arakan ; Tenasserim provinces ; 

 Malayan peninsula. 



A. B. Ordinary male and female, from the vicinity of 

 Calcutta (1843). ('. Male. D. E. Females. Malacca 

 (1844-5). F. Male. Tippera. M. Courjon (1844). G. 

 II. I. Males, approximating the plumage of I. zeylanica. 

 Vicinity of Calcutta (1844-7). 



{N. B. ' The exceedingly common I. typhia of Bengal 

 very rarely exhibits any black about the cap and back at 

 any season of the year ; and those of the whole eastern 

 side of the Bay of Bengal appear to be similar : but occa- 

 sionally specimens are met with, which have assumed less 

 or more of this colouring, and which are perhaps hybrids, 

 like those between Coracias inclica and C. uffinis, Treron 

 ])hcenicoptera and Tr. Jercloni, and a few other analo- 

 gously affined races). 



1294. I. scAPULARis, Horsfield {Zool. Res. in Java, pi. , — the 

 female), /. A. S.XllI, 381. 



Burong Capas, Malay ; Cheetoo, Jav. 

 Hab. Malay countries. 



A. B. Males. C. Female. Malacca. Rev. F. W. and 

 Mr. E. Lindstedt (1844-7). 



Genus Irena, Horsfield. 



1295. I. PUELLA (Horsfield's ZooL Res. in Java, pi. ). 



Syn. Coracias jmella, Latham. 



Nyet-pya-zak, Arakan ; Quayang, and Biang Kapoor, 

 Malay ; Bressi, Jav. 



Hab. C. and S. India; Asam ; Burraah ; Malay countries. 



Malayan race (with lower tail-coverts reaching nearly to 

 end of tail). A. B. Males (or adults?) C. Female' (or 

 young?) Malacca. Rev. F. W. Lindstedt and R. W. G. 

 Frith, Esq. (1844-7). Indian and Burmese race (with, con- 

 stantly much shorter lower tail-coverts, — /. indica, A. 

 Hay,'/. A. S. D. Male? E. Young (acquiring the adult? 

 or adult male? plumage.) F. Female (or young?). From 

 Arakan. Capt. J. R. Abbott (1844). G. Male (or adult?). 

 //./.Females (or young?). S.India. T. C Jerdon, 

 Esq. (1843-4). 



