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Forehead, lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, crown, occiput and 

 nape glossy black, with a scarcely perceptible steely gloss ; 

 chin and entire throat, snow white ; lower tail-coverts intense 

 g-ainboge yellow; rest of the lower parts black, each feather 

 narrowly fringed with white, only a narrow stripe of feathers 

 down the centre of the lower abdomen to the vent sullied 

 white ; entire mantle golden olive, brightening to pure golden 

 on the upper tail-coverts ; tail dull black, outer feather on 

 each side tipped, and with nearly the entire inner web, white ; 

 next three feathers on either side, with a similar but succes- 

 sively diminishing patch of white on the inner web ; wings 

 hair brown, the third and next few succeeding primaries 

 suffused on the outer webs above the emarginations with a 

 golden olive, brighter than on the interscapulary region ; the 

 rest of the quills, with nearly the whole of the outer webs, of 

 this colour growing duller as it recedes to the tertiaries, which 

 have the greater part of both webs thus coloured. 



The bill appears to have been dark brown, paler on the lower 

 mandible ; the legs and feet were probably plumbeous, but it 

 is impossible to be certain. 



Captain Webber assures us that this species is not uncom- 

 mon in the interior of the Tonka territories. 



I cannot avoid remarking en passant that Mr. Gray's loca- 

 tion of Brachypodius chalcocephalus (figured on the same 

 plate with Ixidia squamata) between Volvocivora and Lalage 

 is, to me, perfectly inexplicable and untenable, the bird being 

 a typical Bulbul of the Brachypodius type. 



And now about this list : it is a very poor thing, but the 

 best I have been able to put together ; and considering that at 

 present no list at all exists, I would fain hope that it will prove 

 better than none, and that ornithologists in Europe and America, 

 into whose hands it may fall, will kindly assist me in correct- 

 ing and enlarging it. Some of the species entered in my list are 

 quite unknown to me, and only receive a place because they 

 have been said to occur in the Malayan Peninsula, and I 

 do not know how to dispose of them. Very possibly they 

 are synonyms of species which I have already recorded. 



For instance I can make nothing of Euptihsus euptilosus, 

 Gray's H. L. P. 271, ex. Jard. and Selb. 111. Orn. New 

 Ser.pl. 3. What is this? 



What, again, is Hydrocissa mig ratorius, Main ga.y ? There are 

 several others which, in like manner, 1 cannot trace. 



In the list, I have printed in Roman type only those species 

 which (despite anything that may have been asserted to the 

 contrary) do not, so far as 1 know, occur anywhere in Tenas- 

 serim, Burmab, India, Ceylon, the Andamans and Nicobars, 



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