322 A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. [No. 4, 



all tail feathers and the longer coverts of the wing are tipped 

 white. Until more sufficient proof of the probable identity of both 

 has been given, it will be preferable to retain Hay's name. 



71. BlJCHANGA INTERMEDIA, B 1 J t h. 



Dicrurus intermedins, B 1 y t h, J. A. S. B., XV, p. 298. See 

 also Walden in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 545. 



Whole plumage black, glossed with bluish green on the head, 

 neck, back, scapulars and breast, slightly less on the upper tail 

 coverts and the outer webs of the tail feathers ; below blackish, 

 some of the feathers on the middle of lower breast and vent 

 tipped white, lower vent and sides dark cinereous ; lower tail and 

 wing coverts black with white tips ; wing 5 \" ; middle tail feathers 

 4^", outer b\" ; bill from the front of the nostrils to tip -f-", the nude 

 portion only T 9 ^-", from gape very nearly \\" \ tarsus }". This 

 (apparently young) specimen shot near Malacca, only differs from 

 B 1 y t h ' s type (in the Museum) by having the wing and the 

 bill slightly longer, and by the few whitish spots on the belly and 

 the lower tail coverts, which are more uniform dark ashy in the 

 type (the wing and outer tail feathers of which are about 5 t 3 q" each). 

 Both are undoubtedly identical and the same as Burmese speci- 

 mens, but distinct from the Javanese cineraceus. 



72. Dissemurus Malayensis, Hay apud B 1 y t h. 



JSdolius paradiseus, Linn., var. auctorum, J. A.. S. B., XV, p. 294. 



This appears to be in part the Tenasserim form which B 1 y t h 

 (J. A. S. B., XI, p. 800, fig. 8-9) formerly referred to D Rangoonensis, 

 but which is smaller than this species ; it occurs in the Wellesley 

 Province and on Penang. J e r d o n says that Temmin.ck's 

 name setifer is applicable to this species. The upper black plumage 

 has a steel blue lustre on the head, and on neck and back, greenish 

 posteriorly and on the wings, frontal crest about § " long and J" high ; 

 lores and ear coverts dull black ; chin almost dull, throat purplish 

 blue, passing into a greenish lustre on the breast and gradually 

 disappearing on vent, lower tail coverts tipped white. Younger speci- 

 mens have the lower plumage mixed with white ; wing b\" ; middla 

 tail feathers nearly 5", outer nearly 12" ; bill from the nostril J" ; 

 from gape 1^" ; tarsus *f " ; the terminal portion of the outer web 



