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on the inner webs ; the third and fourth, nearly entirely black 

 on the outer webs • the rest of the greater coverts, the median 

 coverts, the secondaries, and tertiaries, hair brown, bronzed, 

 the latter on both webs, the rest on the exterior webs, but 

 leaving 1 on each feather a very narrow dark brown margin to 

 which the bronzing does not extend ; central tail feathers, brown, 

 bronzed, but more faintly than the tertials and secondaries ; 

 lateral tail feathers, black ; the pair next the centre, with a white 

 spot at the tip ; the next pair, regularly tipped ; the next, more 

 broadly, and so on to the external pair, which have nearly the 

 terminal one inch white ; the breast and centre of abdomen, pale 

 vinaceous ; flanks and sides, browner and greyer ; region of the 

 vent, more or less fulvous ; lower tail coverts, slightly sullied or 

 yellowish white ; edge of the wing, axillaries, wing lining, and 

 basal portion of primaries, pure white ; lower surface of quills, 

 pale, glossy, hair brown ; the first primary is spurious, less than 

 half an inch in length, the second large primary is the longest, the 

 third slightly shorter, the fourth about equal to the first long pri- 

 mary ; the tail is a good deal rounded ; the exterior tail feathers, 

 from 0"5 to 0*75 inch shorter than the central ones. 



Mr. Oates sends one specimen obtained in the Pegu Hills, 

 which he considers to belong to a distinct species, but which I 

 think is merely the young of the present one. It is of precisely 

 the same size, and had the soft parts colored very similarly, but 

 it has the whole of the head, neck, and throat, where these are 

 white or slightly sullied white in the adult, thoroughly dirty or 

 suffused with a dingy grey brown tint. The interscapulary 

 region is browner, and the breast, upper abdomen, and flanks 

 have a somewhat deeper vinaceous tinge ; in other respects the 

 birds are identical. He adds : " This Mynah is conspicuous by its 

 absence from the plains of Lower Pegu, where tristis and super- 

 ciliaris are both common. 



689 quat— Temeimchus nemoricolus, Jerdon. 



This species was originally described (Ibis, 1862, p. 22) by 

 Dr. Jerdon in the following terms : — 



" Head, nape, face, and whole lower parts, white ; the back of 

 the neck, back, and wings, ashy, tinged with ferruginous on the 

 upper tail coverts ; quills, black ; secondaries, the same, edged with 

 grey externally ; winglet and a spot on the greater coverts, pure 

 white ; thigh coverts, tinged with rusty ; tail feathers, blackish 

 on the inner web, more or less grey externally, and tipped 

 with chestnut, increasing in extent from about \ inch on the 

 middle feathers to f inch on the outer tail feathers ; bill, blue at 

 the base, then green, with the tip yellow; irides, glaucous 

 white ; legs, dull yellow ; length, 7| to 8 ; expanse, 12^; wing, 4 ; 

 tail, 2i ; bill, f ; tarsus, |. 



