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each other, or conspeeies, and it is remarkable that Ceylon examples are not 

 so dark coloured as are those from the mainland of South India, nor so grey- 

 as are Himalayan specimens. In Turdus melaleucus, J. E. Gray (H. niveiceps, 

 Swinhoe), of China, however, we have the same type, with the coral-red 

 bill, but the black cap replaced by pure white ; a remarkable variation, 

 which is repeated among the black-headed and white-headed cinnamon - 

 coloured munia grosbeaks. 



[Tonghoo, Karen hills, at 1500 feet. Iris, hair-brown; bill and legs, 

 lake-red ( W. R.). H. yunanensis, Anderson, is synonymous. The white- 

 capped Chinese species must stand H. leucocephalus (Grm.), founded on 

 Sonnerat's Merle Dominiquain de la Chine, Voy. Indes, ii. p. 191. J 



*455. H. macciellandi (J. 447). 

 M. holti, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 266. 

 Arakan, South China. 



456. H. TICKELLI. 

 H. tic/celli, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 275. 



Tenasserim provinces. 



[Karen nee hills, 2500, 4000 feet. Iris, red-brown ; bill, brown ; legs, 

 fleshy brown ( W. R.). TJnder-surface of body plumage hardly distinguish- 

 able from the same in H. malaocensis.] 



*457. lOLE VTKTDESCENS. 



Iole viridescens, nobis, Ibis, 1867, p. 7 ; I- virescens, nobis, J. A. S. B. xiv. 673. 

 Arakan, Khasias, Tippera, Tenasserim (where obtained by Heifer). 

 [Tonghoo (Z.); Yey-tho, Tsan koo hiUs [W. R.).] 



*458. Hemixtjs elavaia (J. 448). 

 Pycnonotusjlavala (Hodgs.), Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, pi. 59. 



Khasias, Arakan, Tenasserim. A representative species, H. castaneinotus, 

 Swinhoe, inhabits Hainan. 



[S. hildebrandi, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 508. 



Karen hills, at 2000 feet. Iris ( ? ), lake-brown ; bill, black ; legs, light 

 brown {W. R.); forests north of Pahpoon {_!>.). A representative form, with 

 the head and crest dark brown, not grey. Probably the species determined 

 by Mr. Blj'th as H.flavala.] 



459. Teachycomus ocheocephalus. 



Turdus ochrooephalus, Gin. ; Tricophorus erispiceps, nobis, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 204. 

 Mergui. Common at Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



