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with the upper mandible conspicuously hooked over at tip : much as in 

 Cinclus, minus the hook and nareal orifices ; and it is also the same 

 form of bill which reappears in that very curious Malayan bird, the 

 Eupetes macrocercus of Temminck. From the figure referred to, it differs 

 in the white of the face being confined to a frontal crescent, each horn 

 of which reaches to above the middle of the eye ; in having narrow 

 white tips to the tertiaries ; and a forked tail of moderate length, with 

 its two outer feathers on each side wholly white : the rufous of the nape 

 should also spread a little lower down ; the black of the fore-neck not 

 so far ; and beneath this, the pectoral feathers are each margined with 

 black, as rudely represented in the figure of Turdus avensis. Length 

 of wing three inches and a half; of outer tail-feathers three inches ; bill 

 to forehead above three-quarters ; and of tarse an inch. It is a pecu- 

 liarly interesting species, as indicating, more than either of the others, 

 the affinities of its group. 



2. E. diadematus, Tem. Of this species, from the mountainous 

 interior of Sumatra, I have no description. It is probably identical 

 with the only species I have yet seen from the Malayan peninsula, and 

 which is remarkable for a triangular frontal crest of white feathers, 

 evidently erectile, and those forming the apex being longer than the 

 black coronal feathers they impend. Rest of the plumage black, with 

 white lower abdomen, wing-band, rump, and two outermost tail-feathers 

 on each side, the other tail-feathers white-tipped. Dimensions as in the 

 preceding species: the young having the frontal crest much reduced. 

 If distinct and new, E. frontalis, nobis. 



3. E. speciosus, (Horsfield) : E. coronatus, Tem. Inhabits Java. 



4. E. velatus, Tem. Inhabits Java. 



5. E.maculatus, Vigors; figured in Gould's ' Century' : E.fuligi- 

 nosus, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX, 190 (the young). A specimen for- 

 warded to the Society's Museum by Mr. Hodgson with the latter 

 name, I consider to be decidedly the immature dress of the present 

 species : differing from the adult in the flimsy texture of its clothing 

 plumage, in having the dark portion of its upper-parts spotless fuligin- 

 ous-brown, with indistinct pale mesial lines, passing into white on the 

 belly : wings as in the adult ; tail wanting in the specimen. E. macu- 

 latus appears to be a very common Himalayan species, and occurs 

 rarely in Arracan. 



