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sex. The rictorial bristles are conspicuously white at base, and black 

 for the remainder of their length. 



2. C. mahrattensis, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 83 : C. ma- 

 crurus apud Jerdon, 111. Ind. Orn. (vide his description of C. indicus). 

 Very similar to the last, but much smaller ; a male now before me 

 having the wing but six inches and a half in length, and tail four and 

 three-quarters : in another the wing measured seven inches, and the tail 

 five ; but Mr. Jerdon assigns " about seven inches and a half" as the 

 length of the wing, and " five and a half to six inches," as that of the 

 tail. He adds, that he considers it may perhaps be the C. asiaticus, 

 var., of Latham. In the only specimen before me, there is a russet tinge 

 about the nape, back, and breast, not seen in the preceding species. 

 Formerly, I regarded what Mr. Jerdon pronounces to be a mere pale 

 individual variety of the variable C. indicus, as Sykes's mahrattensis ; 

 but looking more attentively to the description of the latter, the state- 

 ment that the two outer tail-feathers are tipped with white, cannot 

 refer to any variety of C. indicus, wherein the four outer tail-fea- 

 thers (or all but the middle pair,) have subterminai white tips, the ex- 

 tremities being always dark. In other respects, I conceive that Sykes's 

 description will apply sufficiently to the generality of specimens ; par- 

 ticularly as he states that it " differs from C. monticolus and C. asiati- 

 cus, in the prevalent greyness of the plumage, and in the absence of the 

 subrufous collar on the nape." Hab. Southern India. 



3. C. macrurus, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, 142. To this I re- 

 fer two Malacca males, and two Arracan females, in the Society's col- 

 lection, which are intermediate in size to the two preceding, and are 

 further distinguished by their much darker general colouring, and the 

 males by having the primaries black to the end, instead of being mottled 

 towards their tips. Wing seven inches and three-quarters in the 

 males, and tail six inches : in the females, the wing measures seven and 

 a half, and tail five and three-quarters : the males have the crown and 

 nape dark brownish-ashy, minutely mottled, with black dashes along the 

 middle of the crown, as in the preceding species, and the scapularies 

 and wings are similarly marked with black, set off with bright rufous- 

 white, the margins so coloured being narrower than in the others : 

 breast and fore-part of the belly dark, and contrasting strongly with 

 the light buffy tint of the hind-part of the belly, vent, and lower tail- 

 coverts, which last tend to be whitish in one specimen, barred with 



