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same green colour as the bill, which is doubtless also the case with 

 the preceding species. This bird, observes Sir Stamford Raffles, "in- 

 habits the forests of Sumatra, but is not common. It feeds on insects, 

 like the rest of the genus." The Society's specimens are from Singapore. 



The more restricted Malkohas have been divided by Mr. Swainson 

 into Phcenicophceus and Dasylophus. 



Dasylophus is defined by him to have the " bill rather large, com- 

 pressed in its whole length. Gonys angulated. Culmen convex, 

 gradually arched. Frontal feathers incumbent, and concealing the 

 nostrils. Feathers before the eye erect, forming a double crest." 



20. Ph. super ciliosus, Cuvier. (Red-kyebrowed Malkoha). 

 Two specimens in the Society's Museum may, I believe, be referred 

 to this species, though but partially agreeing with the description in 

 the Dictionnaire Classique, which is the only one to which I have 

 access. Length about sixteen inches, of which the middle tail- 

 feathers measure eight inches and a half, the outermost being three 

 inches and a half less ; wing six inches ; bill to forehead (in a straight 

 line) an inch and five-sixteenths, and to gape an inch and three- 

 quarters ; tarse an inch and three-eighths. General colour dusky, bright- 

 ly glossed on the upper-parts with greenish-blue, the tail-feathers 

 white-tipped ; the bare orbital skin not papillose, bounded above to 

 beyond the eye with a white streak, and fringed above throughout its 

 length with a singular erect range of rigid and glistening, narrow and 

 discomposed, red feathers, the longest nearly an inch in length ; bill 

 apparently yellow at base, then shewing a sinuous deep green zOne, 

 and the rest pale green ; in form more evenly compressed throughout 

 its length than in the subgenerically restricted Phoenicophcei. A 

 young bird is generally similar but less brightly glossed, the posterior 

 portion of the red eyebrows much less developed, and the anterior 

 portion yellowish in colour. The Malkoha a sourcils rouges des- 

 cribed by M. Drapiez as Ph. superciliosus, Cuv., however, is stated 

 to be but from ten to eleven inches (French) in length, having the 

 under-parts of a dull white, but agreeing in all other respects. 

 Should that here described prove different, it might be termed Ph. 

 ornatus. M. Drapiez 's bird is stated to inhabit the Philippines. 



21. Ph. Cumingi, Fraser, P. Z. S., 1839, p. 112. (Laminated 

 Malkoha.) Length sixteen inches and a half, of wing six inches, tail 



