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of the tertiaries dusky-black : the outer coloured like the back, with a 

 slight yellowish spot at tip, and the secondaries narrowly bordered with 

 yellowish : terminal half or more of the greater coverts of the primaries 

 bright yellow ; and a few of the outermost coverts of the secondaries 

 tipped with the same : middle tail-feathers black, the rest successively 

 more broadly tipped with yellow ; and the tail conspicuously more even 

 or squared than in the commoner O. indicus of the same countries.* 



19. Sc. atrodorsalis, Gray. Size of the preceding, with generally a much 

 more bushy tail: upper-parts grizzled black and fulvous, with a great black patch 

 upon the back ; head rufescent, with white whiskers: lower-parts varying in hue 

 from weak ferruginous to deep maronne-red : a tinge of the same upon the 

 haunches ; and hairs of the tail black with broad fulvous tips. In one specimen 

 before us, with deep rufous ears and dark maronne-red under-parts, the tail is 

 throughout grizzled like the back, and much less bushy than usual : perhaps a 

 distinct race from those with ferruginous uuder- parts more or less deep, and an 

 extremely bushy tail. Inhabits the Tenasserim provinces. 



20. Sc. caniceps, Gray, is thus described. " Pale grey, grizzled: back yel- 

 lowish: beneath, paler grey: tail long, grey, black-varied, ringed, the hair with 



three broad black bands." Size -? Inhabits Butan (Ann. Mag. N. H. X, 



1842, p. 263). 



21. Sc. tupaioides ? A very curious species inhabiting the Malayan penin- 

 sula, which, by its lengthened snout and aspect generally, quite simulates the 

 genus Tupaia, Raffles, of the order Insectivora. It is doubtless the Rhino- 

 sciurus tupaioides, Gray (Appendix to Brit, Mus. Catal., p. 195), from Singa- 

 pore; but we doubt its being correctly referred to Sc. laticaudatus, Diard (S. 

 Miiller, tab. XV, f. 1, 2, and 3), by Dr. Cantor (in /. A S. XV, 251). The 

 latter wouid rather appear to be a second species of the same peculiar type, of 

 much paler and more rufous hue than the Malacca animal, and differing remark- 

 ably in the relative proportion of its molars, as noticed by Dr. Cantor (loc. cit.), 

 and which inhabits the western coast of Borneo. In a Malacca specimen in our 

 museum, there is even an indication of the pale shoulder-stripe of the TuPAiiE ! 



* We are acquainted now with five species of black- naped Orioles ; viz. 



1. O. chinensis, L. (vide J. A. S. XV, 46). China (and the Philippines ?) 



2. O. macrourus, nobis (vide loc. cit.) Nicobar islands only, so far as known 

 at present. 



3. O. indicus, Brisson, Jerdon (vide loc. cit.) Common in the Burmese 

 countries ; rare in Lower Bengal : found also in S. India and in China. 



4. O. coronatus, Swainson : 0. hippocrepis, Wagler. Differs from O. indi- 

 cus in having a narrower nape-mark, a shorter wing, and by the considerably 

 reduced development of the yellow on the secondaries and tertiaries. Hab. Java, 

 and probably other islands of the great archipelago. 



5. O. tenuirostris, nobis, ut supra. Burmese countries. 



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