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bird perpetually moving from one bush or tree to another, and 
frequenting alike the highest Sonneratia trees and the lowest 
mangroves. I have never observed it at any distance from tidal 
jungle. The following is a reswmé of the dimensions of five 
males recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 5°5 to 5°75 ; expanse, 8°25 to 8°75; tail from vent, 
2°2 to 2-4; wing, 2°42 to 2°55; tarsus, 68 to 7; bill from gape, 
‘5 to 53. Inides, brown; bill, black; legs and feet, slaty blue ; 
claws, black. 
674.—Dendrocitta rufa, Scop. 
I only saw a single specimen of this species, which I shot in 
the forest jungle near Syriam in the beginning of J anuary. It 
was a male, and measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 16°5; expanse, 18:5; wing, 5°85; tail from vent, 
9°75 ; tarsus, 1°35; bill from gape, 1°42. 
Irides, brownish red; bill, dusky black ; legs and feet, slaty 
black ; claws, black. 
678 bis.—Crypsirina varians, Lath—(Vide S. F. III. 
146.) 
This bird occurred in great abundance in the Evergreen for- 
ests lying between Elephant Point and China-Ba-keer, as well 
asin the thin tree jungle near the mouth of the Rangoon 
river. The following is a reswmé of the dimensions recorded 
in the flesh of six male and two female specimens :— 
Length, 12 to 13 ; expanse, 12°75 to 13:5; tail from vent, 7:5 
to 8; wing, 4°45 to 4° 6; tarsus, 1 to 11; bill from gape, 1 to 
EE: ; 
In most specimens the irides were of a fine pale or 
greyish blue, but in two males they were dark brown; the 
eyelids of all were margined with reddish or light brown, 
and the bill, legs, feet, and claws, were deep coal black. 
683 bis—Sturnopastor superciliaris, Blyth, —( Vide 
S. F. III, 149.) 
This species was very common in all open cultivated and 
waste ground, more especially in the vicinity of villages. It 
was usually met with in parties of from ten to thirty. There 
is no appreciable difference in size between the two sexes. 
The following are the dimensions of six specimens recorded 
in the flesh :— 
Length, 9:2 to 9°5 ; expanse, 13°5 to 14:5; tail from vent, 
275 to 3; wing, 44 to 4°55 ; tarsus, 1:15 to 1:25; bill from 
gape, 1:38 to 1°45. 
