512 EULABETID.E. 



wattles and naked skin of head yellow, tinged with orange on the 

 sides of the head ; the corner near the eye faintly tinged with 

 blue ; legs yellow ; claws yellowish horn-colour. 



Length about 11-5; tail 3*3; wing 6'4 ; tarsus 1/4; bill from 

 gape 1*5. 



A race of this species from the Andamans and Nicobars has 

 been separated under the name of E. andamanensis. Typical 

 examples have a longer wing and more white on the wing than 

 E. intermedia. I do not consider it advisable to retain this race 

 separate. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Kumaun to Assam, and thence 

 through Burma to the southernmost portion of Tenasserim, and 

 down the Malay peninsula ; south-eastern Central Provinces and 

 neighbouring tracts, where this species has been recorded from 

 Grangpur and Sarunda, Kalahandi, Jaipur, Bastar, and Sambalpur. 

 This species does not ascend the Himalayas to any great height, 

 but keeps chiefly to the lower ranges and valleys. It is found in 

 the Audamaus arid Nicobars. 



Habits, $c. Breeds from March to May, laying two or three 

 eggs, which measure about 1*13 by *8. 



525. Eulabes javanensis. The Malay Grackle. 



Corvus javanensis, Osbeck, Voy. to China, \, p. 157 (1771). 

 Eulabes javanus, Cuv. Regne Anim. 2nd ed. i, p. 377 (1829). 

 Gracula javanensis (Osb.), Blyth, Cat. p. 107 (part.) ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 693 (part.) ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 393. 

 Eulabes javaneusis (Osb.), Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 524 (part.) ; 



Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 176. 

 Mainatus iavanensis (Osb.}, Sharpc, 



Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 102. 



Fig. 150. Head of E. javanensis. 



Coloration. Eesembles E. intermedia, but is much larger, with 

 very much more massive bill and legs. The chief difference 

 between the two species, however, consists in the shape and dis- 

 position of the naked patches on the side of the head. In E. in- 

 termedia the patch under the eye and the one over the ear-coverts 

 are joined together. In E. javanensis the patches are in most 



