66 crow. 



B. — In the collection of the late General Davies we observed a 

 further variety ; length eight inches. Bill brownish yellow ; crown 

 chestnut, paler over each eye, nearly orange ; through the eye black ; 

 chin and throat buff-colour ;' across the throat, above the breast, a 

 band of blue black, arising at the nape ; plumage above brown ; 

 five or six of the outer wing coverts black, with an oblique, longish 

 spot at the tip of each, on the outer web; greater quills dusky; tail 

 cuneiform, the two middle feathers brown, the others blue; side 

 coverts blue ; legs one inch and a half in length ; thighs three- 

 quarters of an inch ; colour brown ; outer and middle toe connected 

 to the first joint. — It has hitherto been a doubt where to fix this 

 bird, partaking so much of both the Thrush and Crow as to create 

 a difference of opinion among authors. We have now placed it with 

 the Crows, led thereto by the opinion of Dr. Shaw ; in addition to 

 which, M. Temminck prefers making it into a separate Genus, and 

 taking in the short-tailed under the name of Pitta, or Breve. 



C. — Myiothera affinis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 154. 



THIS is smaller than the last, being no more than seven inches and 

 a half in length ; the colour of the plumage above is rufous brown ; 

 beneath the body pale fulvous, with numerous violet bands ; chin pale ; 

 cheeks black ; continued in a broad streak on each side of the neck ; 

 throat divided from the breast by a band of black, terminated posteriorly 

 with blue in the male, and with dusky grey in the female ; the 

 upper part of the head in that sex is nearly the colour of the back, 

 and the lateral stripes testaceous chestnut ; on the wings an irregular 

 band of white, formed as in the first described, from the tips of the 

 coverts being of that colour. 



Inhabits Java, known there by the name of Punglor. 



