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105. KirracINCLA MACROURA. 
Turdus macrourus, Gmel. (Lath. Syn. 111. t. 39; Levaill. Ois. 
@ Afr. t.114; Kittl. Kupf. Voeg. t. 11. f. 1.) 
Turdus tricolor, Vieill. 
Grillivora longicauda, Swains. 
Kittacincla macroura, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 7. 
Suama of the Bengalese (Hamilton). 
Larwa of the Javanese (Horsf.). 
Murasuta of the Malays (Eyton). 
Cuanccnoor of the Malays in Sumatra (Raffles). 
«The Shdmd is reputed to be the finest of oriental songsters ; be- 
sides which it has a considerable propensity to imitation, and one in 
my possession learned to give the crow of a cock to perfection, also 
the notes of the Coe! (Eudynamis orientalis), the chatter of a troop 
of Saat Bhyes (Malacocircus canorus), &c. Many thousands of 
these elegant birds are kept in cages in Calcutta, and the universally 
absurd practice is to darken their cages by wrapping them with 
several folds of cloth, enough to stifle the luckless captives in this 
climate, though it must be confessed they sing most vigorously while 
thus circumstanced, but certainly not more so than mine, which were 
exposed to the light and air. It is a practice of the rich natives to 
employ servants to carry about their Shdmds and other birds, and 
the number which are thus borne about the streets of Calcutta is 
astonishing ; the poor birds are shut out from all light and air, like 
Mahommedan ladies enjoying (?) their evening drive, but they never- 
theless (i. e. the birds) sing forth most lustily and melodiously.”” — 
Blyth. 
106. ZANTHOPYGIA TRICOLOR. 
Muscicapa zanthopygia, Hay, Madras Journ. (1844) p. 162. 
Muscicapa tricolor, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. (1845) p. 406. 
Zanthopygia leucophrys, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. (1847) p. 123. 
«Colour of the male, deep black above, bright yellow below and 
on the rump ; a large wing-spot, continued along two-thirds of the 
outer edge of the largest tertiary, also a spot before and over the 
eye, and the lower tail-coverts pure white; bill dusky-horn or 
blackish ; legs brown. The female differs widely in being of a light 
olive-green above, tinged with grey, especially on the head ; below 
yellowish-albescent, the feathers of the fore-neck and breast margined 
with the hue of the upper parts; rump, towards the tail, bright and 
pure light-yellow ; the two great ranges of wing-coverts tipped, and 
the tertiaries externally margined with white ; loral streak and the lower 
tail-coverts dull-white ; bill dusky above, pale below, and legs pale. 
“Length, 5 inches; of wing, 22ths ; tail, 1{ths; bill to gape, 
Sths ; and tarse, barely {ths of an inch.” 
A female only was obtained at Pinang. 
107. EryTHRosTeRNA ERyTHACA, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. 1847, 
p- 126. 
« Closely allied in form and structure to E. leucura, Gmel. ; Muse. 
