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Oriolus tenuirostbis, nobis, J. A. S. XV, 48. A fine adult specimen. 

 We formerly described this species from the skin of a young bird, not in 

 good plumage, which we found among a lot of skins put away as dupli- 

 cates ; and there can be little doubt now that the specimen referred to 



line will be quite arbitrary ; and, by the same rule, Sc. palmarum and Sc. tri- 

 striatus of India should be placed as varieties of one species, although their voice 

 is singularly different, and the latter race keeps everywhere to the jungle, instead 

 of coming much into gardens and about houses like the other). 



5. Sc. Keraudrenii, Is. Geoffroy. Entirely of a deep rufo- ferruginous 

 colour, with blackish paws, and whitish tail-tip : the tail, indeed, only differing 

 from that of No. 4 is not being grizzled at base. Common in the hilly parts of 

 Arakan and Pegu. 



6. Sc. hyperythrus, nobis, n. s.: Sc. erythraus, var. A (?), Gray's Br. 

 Mus. Catal. A little smaller than the four preceding races : the upper-parts 

 uniformly grizzled throughout, black and golden-fulvous, but a strong ferruginous 

 tinge on the head, and the ears bright rufous : lower-parts deep rufo-ferruginous, 

 fading on the throat : tail coloured like the back, but its terminal half more bright- 

 ly tinged with ferruginous and distinctly annulated : paws nigrescent. Length 8 

 or 9 in.; of tail with hair somewhat less; and foot 1| in. From Tenasserim 

 (Moulmein ?). Presented by Capt. Berdmore. 



7. Sc. griseopectus, nobis, /. A. S. XVI, 873. Size of last. Tbe general 

 colour paler, uniformly grizzled throughout on the upper-parts and tail, which 

 has a slight black tip : throat and breast also grizzled, and faintly washed with 

 ferruginous ; the belly and inside of limbs much deeper ferruginous : paws not 

 darker than the rest, and no rufous about the face; but a pale ferruginous tinge on 

 the tail. Habitat unknown. Described from a caged animal, in fine condition, 

 which was transferred to the museum at its death. 



8. Sc. concolor, nobis, n. s. (referred doubtfully to Sc. modestus, S. Miiller, 

 in J. A. S. XX, 166). Size of the two preceding, and much like the non-rufous 

 specimens of Sc. chrysonotus ; or like Sc. nigrovittatds, but larger and 

 without the lateral stripes and rufous tinge about the head. Lower-parts dull ash- 

 colour : the rest grizzled throughout with black and dull ruddy-ferruginous ; the 

 latter somewhat brighter on the middle of the back, croup, and upon the tail, which 

 last is conspicuously ringed with black and dull ferruginous, and has a black tip 

 mingled with hoary-white. From the vicinity of Malacca. 



9. Sc. chrysonotus, nobis, J. A. S. XVI, 873. Size of the three preceding ; 

 and colour variable, but with always a conspicuous black tail-tip. Fur grizzled 

 ash-grey on the limbs and under-parts, and more or less tinged with bright ferru- 

 ginous on the upper-parts, especially on the nape and fore-part of the back ; but 

 in some specimens there is scarcely an obscure wash of this ferruginous, while in 

 others the whole nape, shoulders, and anterior two-thirds of back, are intense 



