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of wing 3 in. (instead of 3£ in or more), and the rest in proportion. 

 From Pegu. 



Pycnonotus hjemoeehous, (Gm.) Specimen rather large, with closed 

 wing 3f in. ; but otherwise resembling examples from Arakan, S. India 

 and Ceylon, Orissa, Agra, &c. ; one from Wuzirabad being even larger, 

 with wing 3f in. ; the ordinary length being from 3f to 3f in. In P. 

 cafee, (L.), of Bengal, Nepal, Asam, Tippera, Deyra Doon, &c, the 

 length of closed wing of the male is generally 4 in. The latter species 

 has always a black nape ; whereas the other has merely a black cap, the 

 nape being coloured like the back, though generally with whiter margins 

 to the feathers. In P. cafer, also, the black of the lower-parts descends 

 much further over the breast than in P. h^emoeehous. P. nigeopileus, 

 nobis, of the Tenasserim provinces is a third nearly affined race, which 

 differs from P. h^moeehous in having the black of the lower-parts con- 

 fined to the chin, or even wanting altogether ; and that of the cap well 

 defined and contrasting sharply with the more or less whitish-edged 

 feathers of the nape. 



Genus Coevus, L. Two species of Crow are sent, one being the 

 common black Crow (C. culminatus, Sykes,) of all India, and which we 

 have received from Pinang and Malacca, where it occurs together with 

 another black species, the C. enca (?), Horsfield (v. macrorhynchos, Wag- 

 ler) ; and the other being the melanoid variety of our ordinary Indian 

 Crow (C. splendens, Vieillot), which appears to be the common Crow 

 of the Tenasserim provinces. In the Pegu specimen now received, and 

 another from Mergui (all that we have seen as yet from that range of 

 country), the melanism is more pronounced than in Cinghalese specimens, 

 which exhibit a more decidedly ashy tinge on the nape and breast. In 

 the Pegu specimen this is by no means conspicuously observable : yet 

 Major Phayre remarks of it, that— "this is the common Crow of the 

 branches of the Irawadi ; but away from the river in the hills there is a 

 Crow of the same size, but not with the same tinge on the neck, being of 

 an uniform black throughout." 



A fine specimen of our Indian Maceopteeyx coeonatus, (Tickell), is 

 the first example of this species which we have seen from the eastern 

 side of the Bay of Bengal. In the Malayan peninsula, it is replaced by 

 M. klecho, (Horsfield), and also (it would appear) by the very beautiful 

 M. coeonatus, (Tern.) 



Of Pigeons, are sent Teeeon vieidifeons, nobis : Te. malabaeica, 

 Jerdon;* Caepophaga o^nea; and a pair of Turtle-doves, which are just 



* A Ceylon species which we consider to be Tr. i»ompadora, auct., differs from 

 Tr. malabarica in being rather smaller, with bright yellowish-green forehead, 



