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also in Siain,the Malayan peninsula, and Sumatra. I saw some immense 

 bull Buffaloes drawing hackeries near Martaban station, that would 

 have astonished the natives of Bengal ; and many others in the 

 interior, feeding in the forest near the Karen villages, and which are 

 oftentimes unsafe for Europeans to approach, though quite tractable 

 to the natives to whom they are accustomed.* 



Of birds, the following new species were procured by Col. Phayre. 



Gecinultjs tikidis, nobis, n. s. Differs from G. Gbantia, (McClel- 

 land), in being wholly of a dull green colour, more yellowish towards 

 the nape ; the rump feathers crimson-tipped • inner webs of the wing- 

 feathers dusky, with round white spots as seen from beneath, these 

 spots being much smaller than in G. Gbantia : tail dusky above, 

 the feathers green-edged for the basal half, and all but the middle 

 pair having four small whitish spots bordering the basal half of their 

 inner webs. Bill ivory-white, save laterally towards base, where livid. 

 Feet green. The male would doubtless differ (as in G. Gbantia) by 

 having a red coronal patch. From Tounghoo. 



Cbypsibina cuctjllata, Jerdon.f Form typical, except that the 



* At Mergui, I was riding along a beautiful jungle-road, when, coming to a 

 swamp, a herd of about thirty of these huge beasts rushed suddenly from the 

 jungle, and made direct for me through the shallow water, menacing by tossing 

 their heads and raising their tails and stamping with their fore-feet, when at last 

 they came to a halt, one after another. I confess that I did not overmuch like 

 the look of them, but still could not help admiring their noble appearance. To 

 have run from them would have been to entice them on ; so I checked my pony, 

 not to appear alarmed, and walked quietly by in front of them, they continuing 

 to menace all the while ; after a short time I broke into a trot, and thought that 

 I had well passed the Buffaloes, when, looking behind, I found that I was pur- 

 sued by two bulls, who were already in unpleasant proximity to my nag's tail, 

 their foot-fall producing no sound on the thinly turfed Bandy road. I turned 

 suddenly round and shouted at them, when they made off right and left, to my 

 relief and rather to my surprise. I was afterwards necessitated to repass the 

 same herd on my return, when half a dozen of them were fronting me in the 

 centre of the only path, though scarcely threatening as before. I thought it 

 best policy to ride direct towards them at a fast pace, and, when quite close 

 to them, again shouted aloud, whereupon they at once dispersed, trotting off 

 quietly into the swamp. A little afterwards I passed another and much larger 

 herd of these wild-looking Buffaloes, but which took not the slightest notice of 

 me. A native child will belabour them with a stick, and soon clear a passage 

 through the herd. But they are not always to be trusted. When I was first at 

 Moulmein a must bull tore through the main street of that town, killing one man 

 and injuring others, and then betaking himself to the river, when the ebb-tide 

 being at the time very strong, it was supposed that he was carried out to sea. 



t This and the next species, with some others procured at Thayet-myo, have 

 been lately described by Dr. Jerdon in The Ibis. My written descriptions, 

 however, of this and one or two others, were awaiting publication for a consider- 

 able time before my friend, Dr. Jerdon, obtained his specimens. Of course I now 

 adopt his appellations. 



