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great alars are barred with rufous. “ Bill yellow, with slight tinge 
of green: eyes reddish-orange: feet slate green. Length of adult 
female 13 in. by 21 in. in expanse of wings.” Bill to gape 13 in.: 
tarse 21 in.: middle toe and claw 12 in.: wing 63 in.: tail 33 in. 
The only specimen as yet obtained. The name Euryzona does not 
so well apply to this species as to its congeners. 
The Indian bird hitherto referred to Hu. cEYLONICA is a recognisably 
distinct race from the true Ceyntonica of Ceylon. The ferruginous 
colour of the nape does not descend so low on the back, and there is 
no trace of ferruginous on the wing and tail-feathers. I distinguish 
it as Eu. AMAUROPTERA, nobis.* The distinction is about equiva- 
lent to that of Patumpus Expurystontii of 8. India and P. Torrine- 
montt of Ceylon; or that of SarcocRamMMa GoENSIS of all India and 
Ceylon, and S. arronucuatts, nobis, of Indo-China and Malasia. 
This last bird is common at Akyab. 
A Denprocirra, of small size, Col. Tytler describes (but has not 
yet sent} as— 
“ D. Bavueyt, Tytler, m.s. A new species, not uncommon on the 
main island. I name it after Mr. Bayley, the Home Secretary to Go- 
vernment. This beautiful little Pie measures 13} in. in extreme length 
with closed wing 43 in.; bill to gape 1 in.; and tarsus lin. Wings 
and tail nearly black, with broad white patch on wing; head, neck, 
and throat, dark brown; back more rufous; belly and vent very 
rufous or chesnut. Tail with 12 feathers (therefore not a Crypsi- 
vina). Bill and feet dark slate-coloured.” 
A new Snake forwarded by Col. Tytler I designate as— 
TRIPIDONOTUS, TYTLERI, nobis, 2. s. Species typical ; the head sub- 
conical, flattened above, with the inter-orbital plate twice as long as 
broad at middle, and projecting backward so as to form an equilate- 
ral triangle between the fronts ef the parietals and beyond the orbi- 
tals. Colour a bistre-brown above, yellowish-white below, with three 
to five more or less conspicuous whitish lines on the fore-part of the 
body, becoming obsolete at about the middle of the length ; a trans- 
verse dark streak below the eye, and another and broader dark streak 
* The late Prince of Canino referred the Gallinula rubiginosa, Tem, (Rullus 
fuscus, L.?) to this division; but it does not belong to it, haying much longer 
toes, and exhibiting other distinctions. 
+ Since receive. +7, C. J. 
