210 Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
. . never red as in the Bengal race.... Young... iris in 
some yellow, in others brownish yellow, sometimes with a 
dark inner edge.” 
This species appears to be, for the most part, a migratory 
visitor to Ceylon; and Captain Legge’s observations as to 
the times and places of its arrival are curious and interesting : 
but some doubt still exists as to the countries from which 
it migrates to the shores of Ceylon; and the full elucidation 
of this question seems to require more complete data than 
we at present possess. 
Some of the Ceylon specimens which I have seen are re- 
markable for the richness of the dark rufous-brown tints on 
the underparts, exceeding in this respect any I have seen from 
India. Those that I have examined have crests varying in 
length from 1:1 inch to 1°9. 
Specimens from Burmah and Pegu, judging from the few 
that I have seen, and from others recorded by Mr. Hume, 
appear usually to have either no crests or but very short ones, 
the longest I know of being a Thayetmyo example, with a 
crest measuring 1°5, mentioned by Mr. Hume in ‘ Stray Fea- 
thers,’ vol. i. p. 36. 
Further to the south, longer crests have in two instances 
been recorded : the specimen from Mergui, for which the late 
Mr. Blyth proposed the name of “‘ dbrachypterus,” considering 
that it might prove specifically distinct, 1s said to have had a 
crest 2°5 inches in length; and Mr. Hume, in ‘Stray Fea- 
thers,’ vol. vi. p. 24, mentions a Malaccan specimen in his 
possession with a crest 2 inches long, and adds, “the plumage 
is somehow different from and altogether biacker and intenser 
than that of any Indian specimen I possess or have seen.” 
I may also mention that the Norwich Museum possesses 
an immature specimen from Siam, which has only a slight, 
incipient crest, and another, apparently a little older, from 
Saigon, in which the crest measures 12; both these speci- 
mens resemble the majority of Indian examples of a similar 
age. 
The southern range of this species extends to the islands 
of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Banka; but I have never met 
