550 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON BIRDS FROM TENASSERIM. [Nov. 22, 



don's description of J. zeylanica (6m.) in having the ' bill light 

 plumbeous, darker on the ridge, irides greyish white, and the central 

 tail-feathers partly green and partly black ; ' but there is no black 

 on the head, and the measurements are nearer I. typhia." In the 

 specimen sent the whole of the tail is black. The mixture of green 

 with the black of the tail in i". zeylanica, (Gm.), appears only to ac- 

 company an imperfect state of the upper plumage. Two specimens 

 from Candeish have the tail-feathers partially edged with green ; but 

 they are of moulting birds. 



The bill in I. typhia is longer. This Tenasserim specimen agrees 

 in every respect with a Central Indian specimen of /. typhia. A 

 specimen of a female lora, from Malacca, before me has the bill 

 longer and slenderer than that of the Tenasserim bird, and the wing 

 much shorter. Mr. Blyth gives in his Catalogue both typhia and 

 scapularis, Horsf., from Malacca ; but I am inclined to doubt the 

 occurrence of both forms in the Malay peninsula. My long-billed 

 specimen may be the true scapularis, or else belong to a distinct and 

 undescribed Malayan race. 



25. Orioltjs melanocephalus, Linn.? S. N. ed. 12. i. p. 1G0. 

 n. 3. 



No. 48, $ . Moulmein. 



"Common everywhere. A male in beautiful plumage is only 

 8f inches in length. Jerdon makes his 9|. My bird, too, agrees 

 with the description of O. ceylonensis, Bp., in having the black patch 

 on central tail-feathers 1| inch in length, instead of \ an inch, as 

 said by Jerdon to be the case with O. melanocephalus." As a female 

 specimen only is sent, it is difficult to decide to which of the two 

 nearly allied races this one, from Moulmein, belongs. I have com- 

 pared it with a number of female skins from Ceylon, and can detect 

 no distinction in either colouring or dimensions. It is also smaller 

 than Central Indian female specimens of true melanocephalus. Mr. 

 Blyth (J. A. S. B. 1863, p. 79) remarks that the race found in Burmah 

 and extending down to the Malayan peninsula is quite similar to O. 

 melanocephalus of Bengal. But the variations of the Black-headed 

 Orioles throughout Southern Asia require further investigation. 



26. Copsychus saularis, (Linn.) ? 



Gracula saularis, Linn. S. N. ed. 12. i. p. 165. n. 6. 



No. 72, juv. Moulmein. 



" Abundant about Moulmein." 



27. KlTTACINCLA MACROURA, (Gm.) ? 



Turdus macrourus, Gm. S. N. ed. 13. i. p. 820. n. 67. 



No. 44, 3 juv. Salween River. 



" The specimen is two-thirds grown, and was killed in thick forest 

 jungle on the Salween at Meezain." 



This and the last species are represented by specimens too imma- 

 ture to enable their identity with the types to be established. 



