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plumbeous brown in the others ; claws, bluish in the former, 

 brownish horny in the others." 



253.— Dendrophila corallina, Bodgs. 



Mr. Gray makes two species, I), frontalis, Horsf., from Java, 

 Sumatra, Borneo, Burmah ; and corallina, Hodgson, from Nepal, 

 Ceylon, and Pegu. The former is, I understand, a smaller bird, 

 with a differently colored bill ; bnt I do not exactly know how 

 it is proposed to distinguish Pegu and Burmah. Used in a 

 general sense, Burmah includes the Arracan, Pegu, and Tenas- 

 serim Divisions ; used in a more restricted sense, it refers to Pegu 

 and Independent Burmah north of Pegu. As a matter of fact, 

 the Pegu birds, as well as those from Tenasserim, at least as far 

 south as Tavoy, are, it appears to me, inseparable from others, 

 which I have from Ceylon, the Nilghiris, the Central Provinces, 

 and various localities in the Himalayas. 



Mr. Oates says : " Appears to replace our common Nuthatch 

 of the plains on the PegTi Hills. It is very common, going 

 about in flocks of five or six. Four males that I measured varied 

 as follows : — 



"Length, 4*9 to 5*0; expanse, 8*7 to 9; tail, from vent, 

 1*7 to 1-8; wing, 2*75 to 3; bill, from gape, 063 to 071; tarsus, 

 0*68 to 0*70. In two specimens the irides were yellow; eyelids, 

 plumbeous ; bill, coral red ; inside of mouth, red ; feet, pinkish 

 brown ; claws, pale horny. 



" In two other specimens shot in company with the former, the 

 bill was black pinkish at the gape and nostrils, the irides dark 

 brown, and the legs brownish grey ; these latter were shot, I 

 may mention, early in April, which seems early for young 

 birds to be about, and on the other hand late for them not 

 to have assumed full plumage; but I suppose they must be 

 young.'" 



I myself have no doubt that the black-billed birds are young 

 ones, but then the question suggests itself is frontalis, really 

 distinct ? If so, can it have been young black-billed specimens 

 of corallina which led to Burmah being assigned as a locality 

 for frontalis ? 



It will be noticed that these Thayetmyo birds run slightly 

 smaller than our Indian birds, males of which average about : 

 Length, 5*3 ; expanse, 9*9; tail from vent, T9; wings, 3' 15 ; 

 while the females are perhaps a trifle smaller ; but in no other 

 respect that I can discover is there the smallest difference. 



254 bis. — TJpupa longirostris, Jerdon. 



Whether this species is a good one may be doubtful ; in size 

 typical males equal or exceed Upupa epops, but arc more rufous, 



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