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each other, or conspecies, 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 (IT. 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 (6m.), founded on 

 Sonnerat's Merle Dorniniquain de la Chine, Voy. Indes, ii. p. 191.] 



*'455. H. macclellakdi (J. 447). 

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

 Arakan, South China. 



456. H. TICKELLI. 

 H. tickelli, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 275. 



Tenasserim provinces. 



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

 fleshy brown (TV. R.). IJnder-surface of body plumage hardly distinguish- 

 able from the same in II. malaccensisJ] 



*457. lOLE VIKIDESCE^S. 



Iole viridescens, nobis, Ibis, 1867, p. 7 ; /. virescens, nobis, J. A. S. B. xiv. 573. 

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

 [Tonghoo (X.); Yey-tho, Tsan koo hills (TV. J2.).] 



^458. Hemixus flavala (J. 448). 

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



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

 Swinhoe, inhabits Hainan. 



[iZ". hildelrandij Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 508. 



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

 brown (TV. R.); forests north of Pahpoon (I).). A representative form, with 

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

 by Mr. Blyth as II. flavala.'] 



459. Teachycomus ockrocephalus. 



Turdus ockrocephalus , Gm. ; Tricophorus crispiceps, nobis, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 204. 

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



