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orange-j'ellow ; and a crescent of the same below the little more 

 than indicated crimson gorget. The under parts of this and of 

 the last species are streakless. Common in Ceylon, where it 

 appears to replace B. indicus. Thongli Brown's figure, from 

 which the descriptions of this bird have been taken, is very 

 faulty, and the said descriptions of it are therefore erroneous, it 

 is clear upon comparison of that figure with specimens that the 

 Cinghalese species here described was intended to be represented. 



B. FLAViFRONs, Cuv. (Levaillaut, Ois. Par. pi. 55).— " Lengtli 

 6 in. (French). — Upper parts green, with the edges of the feathers 

 yellowish; lower parts pale green; breast scale-like (maillee) ; 

 forehead of a beautiful golden yellow ; a spot of this colour at 

 the base of the beak ; around the eye, and the chin, blue, as are 

 also the tail-feathers underneath." Inhabits Ceylon, and is 

 stated to be nearly allied to B. australis, Horsfield (v. gularis, 

 Temminck). Non vicli. 



B. TRiMACULATus, Gray; B. australis apud Raffles (nee 

 Horsfield) ; B. cyanotis, Blyth, J. A. S. xvi. 465 (Arracan variety). 

 Toupak, Malacca; Uget-pa-din, Arracan.— Length about 6j in., 

 of wing 3 in. to 3^ in., and tail 2f to 2f in. ; bill to forehead 

 fin.; the rictal bristles reaching |- in. bej^ond its tip. Colour 

 deep green above, more yellowish below, tinged with blue on the 

 tail and edges of the wings ; throat bright light verditer ; the 

 sides of the forehead, and posterior half of the crown, verditer 

 blue-grey; anterior half of the crown, ear-coverts, feathers at 

 base of lower mandible, and slight gorget (more or less defined), 

 black ; three large crimson spots on the sides of the face, one 

 behind the eye and above the ear-coverts, a second below the 

 lores and in front of the ear-coverts, and a third below the ear- 

 coverts. Bill black. Young wholly green, paler below, with 

 merely a bluish tinge on the throat ; the base of the lower 

 mandible white in dry specimens. Extremely common in the 

 Malayan peninsula, and in Sumatra ; irom the Tenasserim pro - 

 vinces we have not seen it ; but in Arracan it is abundantly 

 represented by a race {B. cyanotis, Bl.), having the crimson spots 

 much weaker, and the ear-coverts and feathers anterior to the 

 sincipital crimson spot (which are black in the Malayan race) of 

 the same verditer hue as the throat. We have seen but one 

 Malacca specimen in which the ear-coverts were not black; 

 and in this they were green, with but a slight admixture of 



