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green " extending only along the back. The outer primaries are 



" white-edged " on their outer webs only, which outer webs in 

 the secondaries become bluish- or pearl-grey. This is also the 

 colour of the middle pair of rectrices, and the outer webs of all 

 the rest except the exterior pair, which, as stated previously, 

 have them white. Both tail- and wing-feathers have black 

 shafts. The cheeks, including the ear-coverts, sides of the neck 

 and breast, are bright yellow ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish-white. Irides dark brown ; legs and claws light ver- 

 diter-blue; soles of the feet yellowish; bill jet-black. Di- 

 mensions : — 



Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. Gape. Extent. 

 June 2, 1866, A. 5-5 3 2-25 -6875 -4.375 . . 8-75 



June 29, 1866, B. 5-375 2-875 2-2 -6875 -375 -5 8-5 



This last specimen I shot in a walnut-tree at Annandale. The 

 species is not nearly so common as Parus monticolus. 



649. Machlolophus spilonotus. Black-spotted Yellow 

 Tit. 



Darjeeling collection, 1862. One specimen. 



650. Melanochlora sultanea. Sultan Yellow Tit. 

 Obtained at Kyodan, Salween River, Burmah, August 14th, 



1865. Length 7; wing 3-875 ; tail 3 ; bill at front barely '25 ; 

 tarsus 8*75, nearly; extent 11. Irides dark brown; bill greenish- 

 black. It occurs in small parties in heavy tree-jungle, and is 

 very noisy. {Cf. P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 551, 552.) 



[To be continued.] 



IX. — Remarks on Prof. Huxley's proposed Classification of Birds. 

 By The Editor. 



Owing to the very liberal arrangements under which they may 

 be procured, the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' are so 

 generally accessible to the readers of 'The Ibis' that, in con- 

 ducting this Journal, my predecessor and I have usually deemed 

 it a work of supererogation to occupy its pages with notices of 

 the papers contained in the 'Proceedings' — valuable and in- 

 teresting though they almost always are. Looking, however, to 



