514 Lieut. H. R. Kelham on 



orange on the throat and breast ; wings black, barred with 

 white, ends of the coverts white ; flanks covered with silky- 

 white feathers. 



Perhaps both /. Ujphia and /. zeylonica are found in the 

 peninsula. 



lORA VIRIDISSIMA. 



One I got at Malacca was about 5 inches in length ; plu- 

 mage dull green, yellowish on the abdomen ; patch on eyes 

 and the outer edges of some of the wing- quills pale yellow; 

 wings black, tips of secondaries white, forming two parallel 

 white bars across the wings ; tail black. 



Irena malayensis. The Fairy Bluebird. 



This most richly coloured bird is fairly plentiful in the 

 country round Mount Ophir, and is also found in Perak, Sin- 

 gapore, and on Penang Hill, but certainly cannot be put down 

 as at all common. 



I fail to see the diflPerence between the Malayan Blue- 

 bird and the Indian species, 7. puella ; but Jerdon, in his 

 ' Birds of India,^ says, " A race from Malayana differs in 

 having the under tail-coverts reaching to the end of the tail, 

 whilst in the Indian bird they are never less than 1 J inches 

 short of the tail.^^ However, I have before me five speci- 

 mens, four from Malacca, the other from Perak j and not one 

 of them has the under tail-coverts extending to the end of 

 the tail. They are shorter than the tail by f of an inch in 

 each case. The following is the description of a male shot 

 near Campong Buaya, in Perak, during January 1877 : — 



Length 10 inches ; irides red ; legs and beak black ; upper 

 parts and the under tail-coverts (the last | inch short of end 

 of tail) beautiful glossy blue ; underparts, wings, and tail deep 

 velvety black. 



A female from Malacca is of a dull blue colour, mottled 

 on the head and back with cobalt-blue ; under tail-coverts 

 cobalt-blue. 



Oriolus indicus. The Black-naped Indian Oriole. 

 Though not uncommon in Malaccan collections, I but 

 once myself shot one, an adult female, at Tanglin, Singapore, 



