364 Appendix to Mr. Blyth's Report [No. 149. 



tinguished structurally by its longer tail,, and in colour by having the 

 whole head, neck, throat and breast, silky- white, the back of a more 

 albescent grey, and the primaries plain black ; the flanks, belly, lower 

 tail-coverts, and a portion of the tail, being alone rufous. Inhabits 

 Southern India, and especially the lofty jungles of the Malabar coast, so 

 that the name malabaricus is better applicable to this species than to 

 the preceding one. Gmelin, it may be remarked, in his long and 

 heterogeneous list of species assigned to the genus Turdus, has des- 

 cribed two very different species by the appellation T. malabaricus, 

 namely, the preceding bird and the Phyllornis (v. Chloropsis) rao- 

 dernly so named (XI, 957)- 



St. elegans ; Pastor elegans, Lesson, Voy. de Belanger, p. 266. This 

 is a beautiful species of the present group, inhabiting Cochin China 

 and the Malay peninsula. Colour glistening grey, the forehead, lores, 

 and throat, medial part of wing, rump, tail-tip, with the belly, flanks, 

 and lower tail-coverts, bright golden-ferruginous; fore-part of wing 

 white, and the hinder half, brightly bronzed black ; base of tail also 

 black ; bill lead-coloured, and tarsi yellow. According to M. Lesson, 

 " this species was named P. Chinensis, by Temminck, in Kuhl's 

 Catalogue of Dauben ton's Planches Coloriees ; it is both Oriolus Si- 

 nensis, sp. 44, and Sturnussericeus, sp. 8, of Latham; and Daubenton's 

 figure, pi. dcxvit, where it is termed Kink of China, is so bad as to 

 give a false idea." More or less of this is certainly erroneous. I have 

 now before me specimens of both sexes of the true Sturnus sericeus, 

 Latham, received from Chusan, being evidently that described as such 

 by Shaw and in the Diet, Class. It is a larger bird than any of the 

 preceding members of this group, with a stronger bill less laterally 

 compressed at tip, and may be thus distinguished : — 



St. sericea. Length nearly nine inches, of wing four and three- 

 quarters, and tail two inches and five-eighths; bill to gape an 

 inch and one-eighth, and tarsi an inch. Upper parts of male fine 

 glistening ashy, the wings and tail bronzed green-black, excepting the 

 coverts of the primaries which are white ; entire head, throat, and 

 fore-neck, a silky subdued white, the feathers of the crown slender 

 and elongate : rest of under-parts somewhat paler ashy than the back, 

 the middle of the belly, under tail-coverts, and fore-part of the under 

 surface of the wing, white: bill coral-red with a black tip; and legs 



