332 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
Irides, yellow; bill, orange red at base, shading into dirty 
white towards tip ; legs and feet, pale yellowish brown ; claws, 
light brown. 
[ The specimens vary a good deal, and that too apparently 
in the case of perfect adults. In some specimens the forehead 
and the entire crown are so thickly streaked with white, that 
little else is to be seen but this color; in others the forehead 
only is very sparingly streaked with white, so that the bird 
scarcely appreciably differs from contra.—A. O. H. ] 
686.—Acridotheres fuscus, Wagler. 
This species was even more abundant than the preceding. 
The birds congregated in crowds round every village, and 
flocks of thirty or fifty might be seen feeding in almost every 
dried-up paddy field. The following are the dimensions of 
six specimens recorded in the flesh: — 
Length, 9 to 10; expanse, 14°25 to 15:2; wing, 45 to 4:9; tail 
from vent, 2°9 to 3:2 ; tarsus, 1°25 to 1°35; bill from gape, 1:05 
to 1:22. 
Trides, whitish, yellowish white, or pale dull yellow; up- 
per mandible, orange, tipped and margined with horny yellow and 
black at gape ; lower mandible, orange, black at base, and tipped 
with horny yellow, legs and feet, dull brownish yellow. 
688.—Temenuchus malabaricus, Gmei. 
This species was very abundant, frequenting alike forest 
jungle, open country, hedges, and thickets. I have frequently 
seen these birds in the forests clinging like tit-mice to the 
trunks and branches of trees, and apparently searching for 
insects. They are usually gregarious, consorting in parties of 
five to fifteen. 
The following are the dimensions of four males and two fe- 
males recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 7:2 to 7°8; expanse, 12 to 12°75 ; wing, 3°75 to 4:05 ; 
tail from vent, 2°5 to 2°8 ; tarsus, 85 to 95; bill from gape, ‘9 to 
1:05. 
Trides, dull white, greyish or pale yellowish white; bill 
bright apple green, dusky green at base, bright yellow towards, 
point, tipped and margined with pale yellow; legs and feet 
pale brown or yellowish brown. 
688 bis.—Temenuchus burmanicus, Jerd,—(Vide S. 
F. IIL, 149.) 
This appears to be a rarespecies. Ihave only seen a single 
specimen which I shot in November in the open forest 
