1872.] G. E. Dobsoii — On Barmese hats. 166 



3. JRliinoloplius pusillus, Temminck. 



A not quite adult female specimen referable to this species. The second 

 lower premolar is small and placed slightly outside the tooth-row. This 

 character, which has been made use of to divide the species of the genus into 

 sections, is probably not of much value. Two spirit specimens of this species 

 in the same bottle in the Indian Museum, identical in external form and 

 measurement, present this difference in their dentition, that in one the second 

 lower premolar stands in the tooth-row, whilst in the other it is external to it. 



Length (of a female specimen) head and body V7 ; tail 0'^"7 ; ear (an- 

 teriorly) 0"-6; forearm r -4; thumb 0"-2 ; second finger 2"-0 ; foui'th finger 

 r-8 ; tibia 0''-55. 



4. Fhyllorhina larvata, Horsfield. 



All the specimens are dark slate colour, resembhng some from the Khasi 

 Hills in the Indian Museum. Others collected by Dr. Anderson at the same 

 place, Prome, Barma, also in the Museum collection, are golden ^^ellow with 

 reddish brown tips to the hairs. 



5. Fhyllorliina fulva, Gray. 



Several specimens of this widely distributed species. Of five females, 

 four are of that intensely vivid golden fulvous hue described by Mr. Blyth,* 

 and one of a paler shade of the same colour ; the males are white with 

 brownish tips to the hairs. Of several specimens of the same species brought 

 by Dr. Stoliczka from Kachh but one, a female, possessed this golden ful- 

 vous colour, and of the specimens in the Indian Museum those of a yellow 

 colour are all females, the males are invariably white, with more or less of 

 the ends of the hairs brownish or purplish-black. This seems to indicate 

 that the females only are of this golden fulvous colour. Most female speci- 

 mens, however, resemble the males in the coloui* of the fur, and those of a 

 golden colour are comparatively rare. 



Each of the five golden fulvous specimens collected by Mr. Theobald 

 contained a single foetus, and of the these the fur of the mdividual with the 

 most mature foetus presented the deepest hue. Taking into consideration 

 the fact that I have not found any black and white females with young, it 

 appears very probable that this colour is confined to pregnant females, and 

 corresponds to the breeding plumage of birds. f 



This species appears to be identical with PA. hicolor, Temminck, from 

 Java. The measurements of PA. hicolor given by Temminck, and later by 

 Peters (Monatsber. Berlin Akad. 1871, p. 323) correspond almost exactly, 

 with the exception of those of the ears, with those found by me in the grcat- 



* Journ. As. Soc. Beng, xiii, p. 492. 



t For instance as in Oriolus melanoce^ohalus, remarked by Blyth. See Darwin's 

 • Descent of Man/ Vol. II, pp. 178, 179. 



