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patcli of white on the wing. Another specimen, killed close by 

 Malewoon, 13th December 1875, also with a conspicuous white 

 wing patch, has scarcely more than the lower tail-coverts white. 

 Another specimen killed at Bankasoon, 27th December 1875, 

 has not only all the white described in the first, but has neai'ly 

 the whole abdomen and one side of the body white. No doubt 

 this is abnormal, but it helps to show what a variable character 

 the amount of white on the lower parts is. 



Then we have a male and female both from Bankasoon, both 

 without any white on the wings, but neither of them a bit 

 more intensely colored than some other citrina, and both of 

 them with the vent, flank, feathers and lower tail-coverts white. 

 Some specimens have the whole of the median and primary 

 coverts broadly tipped with whife, forming a conspicuous bar. 

 Some have only three or four of the coverts thus tipped, some 

 only two, some only one, and the two specimens above referred 

 to, none. The absence of white in the wing, therefore, does 

 not seem to be a very good character. 



Lastly, specimens vary very greatly in the intensity both of 

 the ferruginous and ash. 



Innotata may be a good species, but we have failed to procure 

 it both in Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula, and if distinct 

 requires, I think, fuller definition. 



The following are dimensions, &c.j recorded in the flesh of 

 a large series of citrina ;— 



Males.— Length, 8'12 to 90 ; expanse, 14-0 to 150; tail 

 from vent, 2'82 to 3*12; wing, 44 to 4-82; tarsus, 12 to 

 1-35; bill from gape, 1-05 to 1'2; weight, 2'0 to 30 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 8'2 to 8*5 ; expanse, 13*75 to 145 ; tail 

 from vent, 2'75 to 3*25; wing, 4-5 to 4*62 ; tarsus, 12 to 1'25; 

 bill from gape, l'l ; weight, 2*25 ozs. 



Legs, feet, and claws fleshy white ; gape and base of lower 

 mandible fleshy white; rest of bill black; irides dark brown; 

 nude patch behind eye flesh coloured. 



369 Us— -Turdus obscurus, Gm. (24). 



Kyouk-nyat ; Younzaleen Creek ; Mooleyit ; Amherst ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



A seasonal visitant throughout the province, alike to hills 

 and plains. 



[During the cold weather this species is widely spread 

 throughout the province, moving about in large flocks, the 

 majority of the birds keeping together, but many straggling 

 from the main body. They feed chiefly on the ground, and when 

 disturbed rise generally en masse, and scatter into the neighbour-, 

 ino- trees. They have a soft pleasant note, very like that of 

 Planesticus atrogularis (which indeed they resemble very closely 



