510 Lieut. H. R. Kelham on 



Pitta boschi, Miill. 



During January 1877 I got a pair of these beautiful birds 

 near Kwala Kangsar^ Perak. 



MiXORNIS GULARIS (Raffl.) . 



'^Singapore, 5th Aug., 1879. Shot a few small birds 

 among the trees bordering the Bukit-Timah road, the first 

 being a specimen of M. gularis, one of a party of eight or 

 nine which were flitting along a hedge-row.^^ 



I shot another close to our Mess at Tanglin. 



TuRDus RUFicoLLis, Pallas. 



Mr. Davison showed me a specimen of this Thrush which 

 had been shot at Singapore. Personally I did not meet with 

 it in Malayana, but shot one in North China, where I believe 

 it is by no means a rare bird. 



The following note relates to this bird : — 



"3rd Dec, 1879, near Soo-chow, two days' journey from 

 Shanghae. Today, while Pheasant-shooting, I put up a 

 Thrush of a kind I have not met with before, so shot it. I 

 think it is undoubtedly a female of Planesticus ruficollis, the 

 Red-tailed Thrush of Northern Asia. It was by itself. 

 Length 9 inches ; irides dark brown ; bill yellow at base and 

 gape, dusky at tip ; legs brown ; upper parts dull brown, 

 darkest on the tail and wings ; outer edges of wing-coverts 

 whitish ; inner webs of tail-feathers (except two central ones), 

 beneath the wings, the chin, throat, breast, and flanks rufous ; 

 throat and breast covered with dusky spots ; under tail- 

 coverts rufous, with white margins; streak over eye pale 

 rufous ; ear-coverts and the head dull brown.'' 



Cyanoderma erythropterum, Blyth. 



During May 1877, near Kwala Kangsar, Perak, I shot two 

 small birds which were creeping about on the ground in a 

 patch of thick jungle. At the time I did not know what to 

 make of them, but afterwards identified them as of this 

 species. 



Top of head chestnut ; irides red-brown ; white superciliary 

 streak ; bare skin round the eyes pale yellowish green ; upper 

 parts dull brown ; underparts white, with brown streaks on 



