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Mr. Oates, our best authority upon the birds of Pegu, writes to me that A. aurata and 

 A. longirostra are the only Arachnotherce he has met with in that province. 



With regard to the A. magna mentioned by Captain Beavan as collected at Kyodan on the 

 14th of August 1865, the Marquis of Tweeddale writes to me: — "I have examined Beavan 's 

 specimen of Arachnothera from Kyodan, and find it belongs to A. aurata." The specimens said 

 to have been collected by Colonel Tickell in Tenasserim, as well as the bird referred to this 

 species by Dr. Horsfield from Heifer's collection, most probably also belonged to A. aurata, 

 unless, as Messrs. Hume and Davison suggest, the localities given for these specimens are not 

 strictly correct. 



The upper figure in the illustration represents a specimen in my collection from Darjeeling ; 

 and from this bird 1 have also taken my description. 



