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keeping, as a rule, to the tops of the tallest trees. A fine male 
shot near Elephant Point measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 10°5; expanse, 18°75; tail from vent, 3:8; wing, 6:2; 
tarsus, 1 ; bill from gape, 1°45. 
Irides, red; bill, fleshy pink; legs, and feet, dusky slate color ; 
claws, horny petra. 
472.—Oriolus melanocephalus, Zin. 
The black-headed Oriole occurs in abundance throughout 
the entire district. It frequents alike low tree jungle as well 
as forest land. A male specimen from Syriam measured in 
the flesh :— 
Length, 9:5; expanse 15°8; wing, 5:1; tail from vent, 3:4; 
tarsus, ’ 98; bill from gape, lL: Ey Trides, bright red ; bill, brownish 
white, tipped with pinkish; legs and feet, dark slate color ; ; claws, 
black. 
475.—Copsychus saularis, Zin. 
The Magpie Robin was met with everywhere in tolerable 
abundance. I have usually seen it in couples frequenting thick- 
ets and hedges. The following are the dimensions of four 
specimens recorded in the flesh :— 
Three males.—Length, 8 to 8:7; expanse, 11:25 to 11:7; 
wing, 3°8 to 3°85; tail from vent, 3°5 to 3:9; tarsus, 1°15 to 1: 2: 
bill Shaan gape, 1 to 1°2 
One female —Wetietht, &; expanse, 11; wing 3°55; tail from 
vent, 3°3; tarsus, 1°05; bill from gape, 1:05. 
Trides, dark br own; bill, legs, and feet, black. 
[Three specimens, male, of this species shot at Elephant 
point and China Ba-keer, places both on the western side of 
the Rangoon river, and about twenty miles apart, are remark- 
able for ‘having, one the tail of typical sawlaris, with the fourth 
tail feather, counting from the exterior, pure white, with only 
a narrow dusky fringe on the basal portion of the inner web, 
while a second has an almost typical musicus tail, with the 
fourth feather black, with only a white wedge projecting down- 
wards from the tip along the shaft for about an inch ; the third 
is intermediate, the fourth feather is white, with a narrow black 
band on the exterior of the outer web, and a broad black band 
along the interior of the inner web. A single female only 
was “procured at Elephant Point, she is much darker than 
females of the Indian saularis, but not so dark as musicus from 
the Straits.—A. O. H.] 
483.—Pratincola indica, Blyth. 
T have only met with this little bird in the neighbourhood of 
Elephant Point, where it was very abundant. It was always 
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