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Very common everywhere, taking the place of Carine brama of India 

 and Burma. It evidently breeds during January and February, for I was 

 given a fluffy nestling in February 1904, which I fed on meat and bits of small 

 birds ; I gave it away afterwards to the Volunteer Sergeant-Major who, when I 

 left in 1906, still had it ; it had become quite tame and was in splendid plumage. 

 B. M. Cat. XIX,. — Eudynamis malayensis. — The Malayan Koel. 

 Name taken from specimen in Museum. 



B. M. Cat. XIX. — Cacomantis threnodes. 

 Name taken from specimen in Museum. 



B. M. Cat. XVI. — Lyncornis temmincki. 

 Very common out in the country ; flies very high in the air as a rule, look- 

 ing like a large bat. It has a peculiar cry which it utters incessantly when 

 on the wing, resembling "tiptee-bow," "tiptee-bow". 



Besides the foregoing, I also secured or saw the following in Malacca, or 

 Johore ; and I daresay several of them inhabit Singapore Island. 

 7. CoRvtrs splendens. — The Indian House Crow. (Mai.) 

 Like its cousin, C. macrorliynchus ; I only saw one solitary specimen which was 

 no doubt also a straggler. 



227. Zosterop aureiventris.— Hume's White-Eye, (Joh.) 

 Secured by a friend. Breeds during April and May ; nest of fibres and fine 

 roots, cup-shaped, hangs from twigs of small bushes. Eggs 2, pale-blue. 

 244. ^Egithina viridissima.— The Green Iora. (Mai.) 

 Appears to be as common as JEg. tiphia. 



293. Trachycomus ochrocephalus. — The Yellow-crowned Bulbul. (Mai.) 



The largest bulbul found in the Straits. Appears to be locally distributed • 



I only found it in certain thin jungle a few miles outside Malacca town. It 



is easily tamed and taught to whistle and talk, and is therefore in great demand 



as a cage-bird. 



721. Ploceus megarhynchus.— The Eastern Baya. (Mai.) 

 Very common about the paddy fields. 



908. Arachnothera modesta.— The G-rey-breasted Spider-hunter. 

 (Joh.) Procured by a friend. 



910A. Arach. flavigastra.— The Great yellow-eared Spider-hunter 

 (Mai.) 

 Somewhat rare. 



940. Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus. — The Black-and-red Broadbill, 

 (Mai.) 



Common in jungle districts. Breeds from March to May. Nest large 

 globular, with hole at side, of twigs and grass ; usually suspended from the 

 extremity of the branch of a thorny bush. Having a canopy over the 

 entrance, the nest looks like that of a gigantic sun-bird. Eggs white, thickly 

 spotted with rusty red. 



B. M. Cat. II. — Scops lempigi. 

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