152 A FIRST LIST OP THE 



" This is a typical Sturnia, and, like my 8. Blythii and 8. mala* 

 larica, keeps entirely to the forest and to the tops of the trees. 

 It has a pleasant warbling" song." 



Dr. Jerdon gave me what I understood from him were the 

 type specimens of both this and the preceding species ; my 

 sj>ecimens do not agree at all well with his description. In my 

 bird the forehead and crown, chin, throat, and ear coverts are 

 pale buffy white, slightly more buffy on the three latter ; occiput, 

 similar, but slightly greyer ; back of the neck, brownish grey ; 

 back, scapulars, and lesser wing coverts, greyish brown ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts, fulvous or dingy buffy ; quills, winglet, 

 and primary greater coverts, dark brown ; median coverts and 

 secondary greater coverts, fulvous white ; tail feathers, dark brown, 

 the external pair, with most of the outer web and all but the central 

 pair, broadly tipped with rufous ; breast and upper abdomen, pale 

 brownish white ; lower abdomen, fulvous white ; tibial plumes and 

 lower tail coverts more rufescent ; wing lining and axillaries, 

 white, the former tinged somewhat rufescent. 



My specimen may be somewhat faded, as it is dated Thayetmyo, 

 1861-62; but Dr. Jerdon's description must, I think, be wrong 

 about the winglet, and the spot on the greater coverts being white. 



Neither Mr. Oates nor Captain Feilden appears to have met with 

 this species. 



693.— Eulabes javanensis, Osbeck. 



I have already (Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 254) explained the 

 insuperable difficulty that appears to me to exist in separating 

 javanensis and intermedia, and it will be sufficient here to say 

 that the Upper Pegu birds, while they have bills a great deal 

 larger than the Raipore and Sumbulpore birds, correspond in 

 this respect fairly well with those from Sikhim, but have smaller 

 bills than those from the Tipperah Hills and from Malacca. 



Mr. Oates says : " Very common on the Pegu Hills, and 

 appears to be equally so on those of Arracan. I have heard of 

 its being seen near the Irrawaddy, but I must say I doubt 

 whether it ever really is found in the plains at all. 



" The sexes are of much the same size. The specimens I 

 measured varied as follows : — 



"Length, 11-25 to 11-85; expanse, 19-75 to 20-5; tail, from 

 vent, 3 to 3 - 5 ; wing, 6-3 to 6 - 5 ; bill, from gape, 1*47 to T53 ; 

 tarsus, 1-35 to 1*42. 



" The bill is coral red, yellow at the tip ; the inside of the mouth, 

 fleshy ; the irides, brown ; eyelids, well-feathered, naked skin, in 

 general, deep yellow ; more or less tinged with orange on the face, 

 and purer, and varying in depth of color on the lappets ; the upper- 

 most corner of the lappet near the eye, tinged with blue ; legs, 

 feet, and claws, yellow." 



