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much more deeply tipped with white than in Acr. cristatellus ; there 

 is a similar white wing- patch ; and the frontal crest is commonly under 

 half an inch in height. Terminal half of the bill orange-yellow, the 

 remainder with the inside of the mouth deep black : legs orange-yellow : 

 irides bright yellow. Length nine inches and a half, by fifteen inches ; 

 wing five inches ; and tail three inches : bill to gape an inch and a quar- 

 ter ; and tarse one and three- eighths. The young are browner than 

 those of Acr. cristatellus, and are at once distinguished by having the 

 throat whitish, more or less pure, and the middle of the belly and 

 lower tail-coverts white. This bird takes much the same range as 

 Gracula intermedia, only that it is not confined like that species to 

 the hill country : it is common along the eastern coast of the Bay of 

 Bengal, to the Tenasserim Provinces at least ; and it appears to be Dr. 

 Horsfield's Javanese Pastor griseus* 



Also very closely allied to the latter, is the Acr.fuscus of the Indian 

 Peninsula, which is distinguished from Acr. griseus by its smaller size, 

 browner colouring, white abdominal region, and greyish-white irides. 

 Wing four inches and three-quarters. 



The Acr. ginginianus, one of the commonest birds in the vicinity of the 

 great rivers of Upper India which have high banks, does not occur so 

 low down the Hoogly as Calcutta, but abounds as soon as the banks 

 of the Hoogly become of sufficient height for it to burrow in with 

 tolerable security ; and on ascending the river makes its appearance 

 soon after the common Indian Bank Swallow {Hirundo sinensis, Gray). 

 Mr. Hodgson well named this species Pastor gregicolus, for it con- 

 stantly associates with the herds of cattle on open pastures ; and popu- 

 lous communities of them perforate deep holes in the perpendicular 

 banks of rivers, in which they repose and breed. This bird is the Tur- 

 dus suratensis, var. A, of Latham ; his T. suratensis being no other 

 then Pastor roseus : it is also the Gung-Salik (' Ganges Mynah') of the 

 Bengalees, and should be compared with the African Martin gris-de-fer 

 of Levaillant, upon which is founded Gracula grisea, Daudin, and 

 Cossyphus griseus of Dumeril. 



Sturnia erythropygia, nobis, n. s. This beautiful species would seem to 

 be nearly allied to the Javanese St. tricolor, (Horsfield), v. melanoptera, 



* I think that I have seen it from Malacca, but am not quite sure. A gentleman 

 from Java considered it to be, decidedly, the species common in that island. 



