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I put them into my aviary ; and at iirst they did well, feed- 

 ing on plantains, and hopping about most cheerfully, every 

 now and then flirting up their long tails after the manner of 

 Copsychus musicus ; but after a few days they sickened and, 

 much to my regret, died ; so all I could do was to add their 

 skins to my collection. The male was slightly less than 13 

 inches in length ; irides bright orange ; toes four in number, 

 one inclined backwards; forehead lilac; throat and pectoral 

 plumes scarlet, the centres of the latter dusky; rest of plumao-e 

 bright green, except tips of tail-feathers, which were black 

 beneath, their basal portions being yelloAv. Some specimens 

 of this species which I bought at Malacca measured under 

 12 inches in length ; but probably the skins had shrunk. 



EuRYSTOMus ORiENTALis (Liun.) . The Broad -billed Roller. 



This Roller appears to be distributed throughout the coun- 

 try, but is particularly plentiful among the virgin forests of 

 Perak. I hardly like to say it is nocturnal in its habits; still 

 it is rarely met with during the heat of the day ; but in the 

 country round Kwala Kangsar, Perak, I frequently saw it of 

 an evening when on my way home after a day in the jungle ; 

 it was usually perched on the upper branches of some tree, 

 from which it made short flights into the air in pursuit of 

 insects. The first one I shot was only winged, and, turning 

 on its back and uttering harsh screams, it fought most savagely 

 with my dog. It was a male ; length 1 1 inches ; ii-ides dark 

 brown ; legs, feet, and beak scarlet ; plumage greenish blue ; 

 head almost black : wings very prettily marked with blue and 

 black, each having on it a spot of very pale blue ; patch on 

 throat rich violet ; beak short, strong, and hooked at tip ; 

 gape and eyes very large. 



I also shot specimens at Changie, Singapore. 



Pelargopsis malaccexsis, Sharpe. Large Stork-billed 

 Kingfisher. 



This magnificent bird is fairly plentiful, particularly about 

 the jheels of the interior, I shot several on Saiyong and Kota 

 Lama jheel, Perak ; one of them, a female, shot on 24th March 

 1877, was 13f inches in length, bill scarlet, 



