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Tragopan satyrus : male and female, and a skeleton also of the latter. 

 Coturnix dactylisonans : male and female. 



Ciconia alba ; the European White Stork : male, female, and a skeleton of a third. 

 C. leucocephala, or umbellata of Wagler. (Double-tailed Stork.) This species, which is nearly 

 allied to the smaller Adjutants, is remarkable for the singular form of its tail, which, strictly speak- 

 ing, is merely rounded, and consists of twelve white feathers ; but its upper coverts are unusually 

 broad and firm, and present the appearance of a second tail overlying the first, and which is of a 

 black colour, and deeply forked, the outermost of these coverts being longer than the exterior true 

 rectrices. I have not observed a similar structure in any of the allied birds. 

 Ardea Caboga, vel russata: second plumage. 



Machetes pugnax. I have procured a few of these birds alive, with the intention of having them 

 set up when they have put' forth their extraordinary vernal livery, in which it is rare to find even 

 two that much resemble each other. In the dress adverted to, I cannot learn that this species has 

 been observed in this part of the world. 



Scolopax heterura and Sc. gallinula, male and female of each. 

 Totanus fuscus, fine specimens. 



Porzana maruetta, v. Crex porzana, Auct : both sexes. 

 Casarca rutila, male and female. 

 Anas poeciloryncha, male. 

 Fuligula rufina, male. 

 Sterna Seena, ditto. 

 Carbo pygmceus, ditto. 

 A small collection of bird skins from the Malay Peninsula has been purchased, containing the 

 following species : — 



Icthydetus nanus, Nobis. Allied to I. Horsfieldi, v. Falco icthydetus, Horsfield ; but considerably 

 smaller, being under 2 feet in length, the wing 14 inches, and tail, which is a little wedged, 8$ inches ; 

 bill over curve, including cere, 1§ inch, and If inch from tip of upper mandible to gape ; tarse 2\ 

 inches ; the talons large, and all (as in 2. Horsfieldi) completely rounded with the exception of that 

 on the middle toe ; 4th and 5th primaries equal and longest, a little exceeding the 3rd and 6th ; 

 colour of the upper parts somewhat light purplish-brown, darker on the quills, and the nuchal 

 feathers having each a mesial whitish streak ; forehead, streak over the eye, throat, fore-neck, and 

 the ear-coverts except posteriorly, white ; the whole under-parts appear to have been formerly of 

 this colour, which in the specimen before me is nearly altogether replaced by new feathers which 

 are wholly pale brown upon the breast, and more or less so elsewhere, the white being chiefly 

 retained upon the medial part of the feathers, and being laterally more or less freckled with the 

 pale brown of the rest ; some of the lengthened tibial plumes have a few nearly obsolete pale 

 fulvous bars, the rest being white, as are likewise the vent and under tail-coverts : tail pure white 

 at base, where impended by deep brown upper-coverts, then suffused with brown on the outer 

 webs, and freckled with deeper brown on the inner webs, forming two or three dark spots on each, 

 or rudimental bars ; the terminal I \ inch dark aquiline-brown, with paler extreme tips: beneath 

 the wing are also rudiments of a few distantly placed dark bars. Bill dusky : the legs appear to 

 have been yellow ; and talons blackish. 



Alcedo Bengalensis. 

 Merops Phillipinensis. 

 Picus pulverenlulus. 

 P. puniceus. 

 P. tristis. 

 Megalorhynchus Lathami: M. spinosus, Eyton, P.Z.S. 1839, 106; Bucco Lathami, Gmelin 

 apud Sir Stamford Raffles, (Lin. Trans, xiii. 284,) who describes it as follows:— "It is about 

 six inches in length. Bill more compressed and arched than in other Barbets, and wanting the 

 bristles at the base; almost black in the male, but yellowish in the female. The legs are red, but 



