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want of whitish about the throat and eyes, and the blue colour 

 throughout of the naked skin surrounded the eyes. It is found in 

 the south of India and Ceylon, extending as far as Cuttack, 

 where it meets the last species. It frequents thick bamboo and 

 bushy jungles, also groves and avenues, and especially the fine 

 large hedges of Euphorbia found in the Coimbatore district. 

 It feeds on various large insects, grasshoppers, mantides, and 

 caterpillars, and makes its way with great adroitness through the 

 tliickets. Its flight is feeble, and it unwillingly takes wing, and 

 that for no distance. In Ceylon, where it is said to be common, 

 and to live in pairs, I have always seen it single ; and never 

 found it feeding on fruit, as Mr. Layard did in Ceylon. 



Mr. Blyth has pointed out a peculiar structure of the feathers 

 of the throat and fore-neck, which are furcate, from the terminal 

 webs being longer than the shaft. 



One species, Z. jnvanicus, is found in Burmah and Malayan a; and 

 Z. sumatranus and Z. diardi in Malacca and the islands. 



The genus Phmnicopliaus is very close to Zanclostomus, but has 

 usually more nude skin round the eye, and the bill wider and 

 deeper. One species is found in Ceylon, P. ■pyTvliocephalus ; and 

 another in Burmah and Malay ana, P. curvirostris. The former is 

 said to have white irides, to frequent the highest branches in dense 

 jungles, and is considered a great delicacy by the natives. Rhinortha 

 is a very peculiar form from Malayana, with the bill rather large, 

 not curved, but Avith the tip abruptly bent ; it wants eye-lashes ; 

 there is very little nude skin surrounding the eyes ; and the sexes 

 differ remarkably in plumage. 



Most of the Phcenicopliai are from the islands of Malayana, 

 the Philippines, &c. A very remarkable genus, Scythrops or 

 Rain-bird, or Channel-bill, is found in Australia, migrating to 

 Celebes. It has a very large strong bill, with two grooves on 

 each side of the upper mandible ; a naked space round the eyes ; 

 the tail is long, and has a resemblance to the Toucans, among 

 which, indeed, Swainson places it ; but it wants the ciliated 

 tongue of that group, and its whole anatomy, coloration, the 



