Northern Pur Hon of the Malay Peninsula. 0/ 



the hills, as well as on the coast of Selangor and in the Aroa 

 Islands, in the middle of the Straits of Malacca, during the 

 winter months. 



-^-224. Franklima rufescens. 



Cisticola beavani (Wald.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. 



Franklinia rufescens (Blyth); Robinson, p. 208. 

 $ . Tap-tien, Trang, North Malay Peninsula, 1st De- 

 cember, 1909. 



Widely distributed both in the mountains and plains, as 

 far south as Selangor, during the winter months only. 



SxURNIDiE. 

 ^ 225. EULABES JAVANENSIS. 



Mainatus javanensis (Osbeck) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. xiii. p. 102 (1890). 



The large Mynah is fairly common in well-wooded country 

 throughout the Peninsula, and was especially abundant on 

 Pulau Tioman and on the Langkawi group. It is social in 

 its habits, flying and feeding in parties of six or seven. It 

 nests in holes in dead trees, usually very high up and 

 generally inaccessible. 



As elsewhere where the genus occurs, it is a favourite 

 cage-bird, and can readily be taught to talk, clever birds 

 commanding a very high price. 



-V 226. EULABES INTERMEDIUS. 



Mainatus intermedius (A. Hay); Sharpe, tom. cit. p. QQ-, 

 Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1901, p. 66. 



We secured two specimens of the smaller Grackle in 

 Trang, the first, curiously enough, that we have as yet 

 obtained, though we have made a point of shooting one or 

 two of the genus in every locality visited. 



It is distinguishable at a glance from E. javanensis by its 

 very much smaller size, especially in the bill, and by the 

 form of the lappets, which are quite different in the two 

 species. 



Eulabes intermedius appears to be essentially a northern 



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