518 Lieut. H. R. Kelham on 



CORYDALLA MALAYENSIS, Eyt, 



Commonly to be seen on meadow-land, also along the 

 ridges in the paddy-fields. I shot specimens in Perak and 

 Singapore, putting them down as the Indian species (C rufula, 

 Vieill.) which they are exceedingly like ; in fact, my specimens 

 answer exactly to Jerdon^s description of that bird {' Birds 

 of India,' vii. part 1, page 232). 



Melanochlora sultanea, Hodgs. The Yellow-crested Tit. 

 I obtained this handsomely marked Tit in Malacca, also in 

 Johore. 



CoRvus ENCA, Horsf. The Malay Crow. 



Mr. Davison tells me that this is the Common Jungle- 

 Crow of the Malay States. I found it very plentiful in 

 Perak, where it used to collect in great numbers and feed on 

 the refuse from our camp ; joften two or three of them would 

 attack a Pariah Kite which had secured a piece of offal, and 

 buffet him until he dropped his prize, which his pursuers 

 then fought for among themselves. 



The way they collect in the course of a few minutes, when 

 ust before scarcely one is to be seen, is most strange. 



One morning, I shot a crow just outside my hut at Kwala 

 Kangsar, there not being half-a-dozen in sight at the time ; 

 but almost at once they arrived in dozens, flocking in from 

 all directions, and making such a clamour that for the rest 

 of the morning my hut was simply uninhabitable. I suppose 

 they were abusing me for having shot their comrade, or 

 perhaps lamenting his death ; anyhow the noise they made 

 was intolerable. 



On the opposite side of the river, exactly in front of our 

 camp, was a patch of cover some two or three acres in 

 extent, where every evening at sunset hundreds of these 

 birds used to assemble to roost ; one of them I shot was 

 19;^ inches in length, beak at front along culmen 2^, tarsus 

 2 inches, irides very dark brown, plumage black, glossed, 

 particularly on the wings and upper parts with purple and 

 green. 



