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saw in Mr. Gould's possession, but on its back and flanks were 

 scattered feathers of the ordinary character. It was in bad 

 health, the cheek-skin being quite sallow and sickly-looking. 



Garrulax auritus (Daudin), Blyth, ^Catalogue/ p. 95, 1 pur- 

 chased alive, and sent to Dr. Squire for the Society's Gardens. 

 It seems to range from the extreme south of China to the Te- 

 nasserim Provinces, whence Mr. Blyth procured it. I have 

 never met with it wild. It is a fine species, in size rather larger 

 than G. perspicillatus. Bill black; legs and claws brown ; irides 

 crimson. Forehead and a short crest at the base of the culmen 

 black, a streak of which colour also encircles the eye, and a patch 

 of the same occurs on the throat and under the neck. Just in 

 rear of the frontal crest are a few pointed white feathers, and 

 there is an oval white patch on each cheek. The general plu- 

 mage is cinereous. Back, wings, and tail, olive-brown, darker on 

 two last, with deep-coloured shafts. Quills edged with cinere- 

 ous. Blue-grey on head. Ordinary call like a corvine croak. 

 Loud note like "hurrah," often repeated. It also emitted a 

 low whistle. It was very lively and noisy. 



Ceriornis caboti, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 161. I was fortu- 

 nate enough to pickup what I took to be a live specimen of this 

 extremely rare species*. It has also gone forward to Dr. Squire 

 at Calcutta. It was apparently a young bird, with a little knob 

 at the base of the bill, and wart-like spurs on the tarsi. Bill 

 horu-coloured, orange at the base of the gonys. Legs light 

 flesh-brown. Eye-streak and edge of crest fiery. Plumage 

 brown (Hen -like), mottled with black, and spotted with fiery, 

 studded all over with light dingy-ochreous ocelli. Tail short, 

 blackish-brown, with pale brownish mottlings. Head variegated 

 with black and sienna-red, more or less bright. Skin round the 

 eyes and cere pink, the latter pretty thickly clothed with feathers. 

 Arrow-shaped white spots on the under parts. Size that of a 

 large female Gallus domesticus. 



A pair of small Quail drew my attention. They had been 

 received by the bird- seller from Canton. A day or two after, 



* It has hitherto been known only from the type-specimen in Dr. Cabot's 

 collection at Boston, which was said to have been obtained at Macao 

 {vide Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 123).— Ed. 



