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12 in.) also occurs; distinct from C.mao'orhynchus, Temm. (nee 

 Vieillot, corax apud Raffles), of Sumatra and Java. 



Pastor tricolor, Horsfield, is P. melanopterus, Daudin, and 

 Sturnia burmannica, Jerdon (Ibis, 1862, p. 21) ; common in 

 Upper Pegu. 



Brachyj)teryx sepiaria, H., is a Trichostoma, identical with 

 Malacopteron olivaceum, Strickland, from Malacca, not with the 

 Javanese Alcippe, with which I formerly supposed it identical. 



Sylvia montana, H., is a typical Ho7'ornis, hardly differing 

 from H. fulviventer, Hodgson, but of a darker hue, and without 

 any tinge of tawny. 



Dicceum flavum, H., is a Zosterops, which also inhabits the 

 Philippines ; but I now doubt its identity with the species from 

 Moule-yit mountain, in South Burma, which (if I remember 

 rightly) only differs from the Indian Z. palpebrosus (T.) by 

 having the abdominal region yellow. Z. flavics is considerably 

 smaller, the closed wing measuring 2 in., and the tail l:^in., but 

 is otherwise like Z. palpebrosus, except in having the entire 

 under parts yellow. 



Ortygis luzoniensis apud Horsfield is Turnix dussumieri (T.), 

 v.joudera, Hodgson; but I only knew previously of this species 

 as an inhabitant of Bengal and Upper India. In South India 

 it is generally replaced by T. sykesi, A. Smith, which occurs 

 rarely in Lower Bengal, being the supposed dussumieri of Sykes 

 and of Jerdon's first catalogue ; while in Arakan and Pegu it 

 would appear to be replaced by T. maculosa (T., v. blanfordi, 

 nobis), a Chinese species, which is doubtless also T.joudera apud 

 Swinhoe (Ibis, 1861, p. 50). 



Of the three Bengal species of this genus, T.pugnax (T., S 

 taigoor, Sykes, $ atrogularis, Eyton) has bluish lead-coloured tarsi 

 and toes, T. dussumieri has them yellow, and T. sykesi pinkish 

 white, or what the fair-complexioned races of mankind denomi- 

 nate " flesh-coloured " or " carneous " ; but the Puyu of Raffles 

 is not only described by him, but is figured in one of his draw- 

 ings as having the plumage of T. pugnax, with yellow legs ! 

 T. dussumieri is a diminutive of T. maculosa, as T. sykesi is a 

 miniature of the South-European, North-African, and West- 

 Asian T. andalusica, and T. pugnax of the Chinese and Philip- 



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