342 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Small. Total length hardly 6 inches ; front f^ : gape ^ ; 

 wings 25 ; tail, beyond, 1 ; base 2 ; tarsus fg. Tail rather 

 short, and nearly even : the yellow eye stripe is very broad and 

 bright, and passes as far as the nape : the white stripe on the 

 ears is between the two grey ones Flanks and belly tinged 

 with olive : middle toe very short. 



179' Malaconotus similis. 



Above^, black : lores, lower part of the back^ and 

 plumage, beneath, greyish white : tips of the lateral 

 tail feathers white. 



Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. 



Total length 6| inches ; bill, front, ^; gape ^; wings 3; 

 tail, base 3 ; tarsus f^. Closely resembling in structure and 

 colour M. molUssimus ; but is smaller in all its proportions 

 except the legs, which are longer : the lores are grey, not black j 

 and the long rump feathers are dark cinereous beneath, not 

 pure white : the tail much shorter, and the lateral feathers tipt 

 with white. 



181. Oriolus coronatus. 



Crown of the head yellow : incircled by a narrow 

 black band, round the nape : quill feathers, and spuri- 

 ous quills, edged with yellow. 



Inhabits Java. Mus. Nost, 



Total length 9^ inches; bill, front, ]^2_, wings 5^^ ; tail 

 beyond, 1 ; base 3^ ; tarsus f^. Smaller than 0. Sinensis 

 (PI. Enl. 570.), with which it has been confounded, and differs 

 by having the whole of the crown, and not the front only, 

 yellow : the black band only passes round the nape. 



182. Gryllivora rosea. 

 Glossy black : body, beneath, stripe on the wings, 

 ^nd four lateral pair of tail feathers, rosy. 

 Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length 7^ inches ; bill, front ^ : wings 3^ ; tail, 

 base 3^. Smaller than G. intermedia ; the wings being near 

 half an inch shorter, but the bill is ratlier longer ; four, instead 

 of three of the tail feathers, on each side, are white, or rather 

 rosy, as are all the light parts of the plumage. Until there is 

 positive evidence that this, and the three preceding, are varie- 

 ties, I must consider them as species. 



