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smaller bill. In Fe. Phayeei the spurs seem generally to be f in. length : 

 and it remains to ascertain if they ever exceed \ in. in the species inhabit- 

 ing China and the Mauritius. In plumage we can detect no further dif- 

 ference than has been mentioned ; and have never seen females of either. 

 The rest of Major Phayre's Peguan birds are as follow : — Pal^eoenis 

 toequatus, p. schisticeps (!), p. cyanocephalus, bcjceeos albirostris, 

 Halcyon gtjeial, Alcedo bengalensis, Coeacias affinis, Eueystomus 



OEIENTALTS, MeGALAIMA LINEATA, CHRYSOCOLAPTES SULTANEUS, TlGA 

 INTEEMEDIA, PH03NICOPHAUS TEISTIS, HaEPACTES EEYTHEOCEPHALUS, 

 DeNDROCITTA EUFA, GrACTJLA INTEEMEDIA, GAEEULAX BeLANGEEI, Pa- 

 EUS FLAVOCEISTATUS, PASSEE FLAVEOLUS, EmBEEIZA AUEEOLA, PlPASTES 



agilts, Peinia eufescens, Pomatoehinus leucogastee, Tepheodoenis 



PONTICEEIANA, PETEOCOSSYPHUS PANDOO, CoPSYCHUS SAULAEIS (nee MLN- 



danensis), Ceecoteichas maceoueus, Cyoenis eubeculoides, Eey- 



THROSTERNA LEUCURA, PEATINCOLA CAPRATA, PeRICROCOTUS SPECIOSUS, 



Chaptia genea,TEdolitjs paeadiseus (var. geandis, Gould^^DiCEUiius 



L0NGICATJDATUS, MYIAGEA AZITEEA, PYCNONOTUS MELANOCEPHALTJS, IoLE 

 VIEESCENS, PHYLLOENIS COCHINCHINENSIS, lEENA PTJELLA, OEIOLUS ME- 

 LANOCEPHALUS, TlTENIX OCELLATUS, HoPLOPTEEUS VENTEALIS, and Bu- 

 TORIDES JAVANICUS. 



Also, of Eeptilia, a small Box terrapin, which heretofore has only 

 been satisfactorily known to inhabit Java. It is the Cistudo dentata, 

 (Gray), C. Diardii of Dumeril and Bibron, Emys Hasseltii, Boie, and 

 Cyclemys orbicularis, Bell : remarkable among the Cistudines for its 

 flattened form and notched hind-margin of sternum.* 



E. Blyth. 



* Capt. Berdmore has since sent a living specimen, from Schwe Gyen on the 

 Sitang river, Pegu : colour of naked parts olive-grey, with longitudinal dull 

 orange streaks on the neck, and a broader sincipital streak of the same. It is 

 unusually quick in its movements, for a Tortoise ! He has also sent the curious 

 lizard-tailed and large-headed Terrapin (Platysternon megacephalum, Gray), 

 heretofore only known from China ; and several living specimens of Emys ocel- 

 lata, Dumeril and Bibron ; and the very young of Emyda punctata, Gray, 

 (Cryptopus granosus, D. and B). Emys ocellata would appear to be the 

 commonest species in the Burmese rivers ; and its naked parts are olive-grey, the 

 crown blackish, with a yellowish-white v-like mark over the snout, continued as a 

 supercilium over each eye and back upon the neck ; another similar line behind 

 the eye, and both are often more or less broken into spots. Carapax dusky, mot- 

 tled with yellowish ; a great black spot surrounded with a pale areola upon each 

 discoidal plate ; dorsal ridges blackish with pale border : and lower-parts wholly 

 yellowish-white. Some are brighter-coloured than others; and the ocelli become 

 proportionally smaller as they increase in size. The carapax of our largest speci- 

 men measures 9 by 6£ in. ; but it probably is not nearly full grown. 



