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from that of Nepal, Bengal, Assam, Arracan, and the Tenasserim 

 Provinces, (the common Hill Mynah of the Calcutta dealers,) in its 

 rather larger size, as regards linear dimensions, but much more robust 

 conformation, with much larger occipital lappets, &c. The closed beak 

 measures eleven- sixteenths of an inch in vertical depth, whereas in the 

 Bengal species it does not commonly attain to half an inch ; the feet 

 are also much thicker and stronger, with far more powerful toes and 

 claws, the tarse measuring an inch and three-eighths, and middle toe 

 and claw nearly one and seven-eighths ; while in the Bengal species the 

 former measurement is one and a quarter, or less, and the latter about one 

 and five-eighths ; wing respectively seven inches, and six and a half or 

 less ; and tail the same in both. All the specimens I have seen have 

 been from Malacca* : of a number received from the Tenasserim Province 

 of Ye, not one could be mistaken for this Malayan bird. Edwards' state- 

 ment that his " Greater Minor, or Mina, for bigness, equals a Jackdaw 

 or Magpie," is intelligible of the present species, but scarcely so of the 

 next. 



3. Gr. intermedia, A. Hay, probably the Mainate of Buffon, and 

 perhaps Mainatus sumatranus, Lesson : Gr. religiosa, apud nos, 

 /. A. S. XII, 178 (bis). The range of this species has already been 

 indicated. It is always less robust, with a less powerful beak, and 

 smaller occipital lappets, than in Gr. javanensis.f 



Ampeliceps coronatus, nobis, J. A. S. XI, 194. In XII, 985, I 

 indicated a grand defect in the specimen originally described, and noticed 

 the near affinity of this genus to the preceding one. Our indefatigable 

 contributor Mr. Barbe has now supplied us with fine specimens of both 

 sexes, of which the beak essentially resembles that of Gracula, but is 

 smaller and shorter, and of a dark greenish colour with yellowish tip 

 and along the tomiae (in the scarcely dry specimens). There is a 

 tolerably large naked space surrounding the eye, which appears to have 

 been yellow ; but the orbits are black ; and there are no short velvety 

 feathers on the sinciput, or nude skin beneath and occipital lappets, 



* It likewise inhabits the Nicobar Islands and Penang. In this species, the oc- 

 cipital lappets are generally united at base, but sometimes only approximated; in Gr. 

 intermedia they are smaller and more distant apart. 



f In the ' Madras Journal', No. XXXI, p. 154 et seq., Lord A. Hay terms these 

 three birds Gr. religiosa, javana, and indica (nee intermedia). 



