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It is also evidently the species to which Major Tickell directed my 

 attention, as a white-headed Maina common about Rangoon ; and 

 which he had only observed in that vicinity ; but I did not chance 

 to meet with it. # 



Anthocincla, nobis, n. g. A very remarkable Thrush-like 

 Myiotherine (?) form, with short tail and rounded wings ; the tarse 

 moderate or somewhat short, and the toes furnished with straight 

 claws, especially that on the hind toe. Bill as in the coarser-billed 

 Oeeocincl^, with no perceptible notch to the upper mandible. No 

 rietal vibrissa. Plumage devoid of bright colours. 



A. Phayrei, nobis, n. s. Length about 9^ in,, of which tail barely 

 2 in ; closed wing 4 in., the fourth and fifth primaries longest, and 

 the first primary measuring 2 in. : bill to gape 1 ■§■ in. ; tarse 1-|- in. ; 

 hind-claw T 9 ¥ in. Colour a rich brown above, paler and more fulvous 

 below, where each feather has a black spot on either web : middle of 

 throat white, bordered laterally with black, and this again by a 

 streak of black-margined fulvous-white feathers, below the brown 

 ear-coverts ; a long supercilium of feathers resembling those of the 

 white moustache-streak, and above this again the feathers on the 

 sides of the crown are squamate and pale-centred : primaries and 

 their coverts black, save an angular fulvous spot at the base of the 

 first primary ; tertiaries plain brown, like the back, but the coverts 

 of the secondaries black with broad fulvous sagittate tips. Bill 

 dusky ; and feet and claws pale. Tounghoo. 



Ptcnonotus tamiliaeis, nobis, n. s. Form typical. Plumage 

 light earthy-brown, paler beneath, less so on the breast ; the lower 

 tail-coverts a little rufescent : stems of the ear-coverts conspicuously 

 white. Bill dusky-corneous ; and legs apparently the same. Length 

 about 8 in., of which tail 3J in. ; closed wing 3f in. : bill to gape 

 |- in. ; and tarse the same. Tounghoo. This dull-plumaged species 

 was also procured at Thayet-myo by Dr. Jerdon, who informs me that 



* ACEIDOTHEEES TEISTIS, ACE. EUSCTTS, and STTTEXOPASTOE CONTEA, VOT., I 

 observed abundantly so far south as Mergui ; but I know of only the second as an 

 inhabitant of the Malayan peninsula. Tenasserim specimens of the first are 

 dark-coloured, like those of Ceylon. At Mergui there is also the Calobnis datj- 

 bictts, a common Malayan species. Tementjchtts maiababictjs I observed 

 abundantly near Moulmein, and far in the interior of Martaban province. The 

 Pastor peguanus, LesBon (Belanger's Fog.), is no other than the young of P. 

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