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the jungle, and by the time he has been trained to be of any use what- 
ever he has probably tired of his employment. 
H. €. ROBINSON, 
Curator, Selangor Museum. 
ON A NEW SPECIES OF WHISTLING-THRUSH 
FROM SELANGOR. 
Bx W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT, 
Brirish Museum or NATURAL HISTORY. 
MYIOPHONEUS ROBINSONI, sp. nov. 
DULT MALE.—Most nearly allied to M. eyaneus, from which it 
differs in having the greater part of the bill yellow, only the 
ridge and the tip of the culmen bein ing blackish, and the basal portion 
of the feathers of the under parts pure white. General colour above 
and below, black slightly glossed with purple, the feathers of the chest 
with shining tips: lesser wing coverts — blue, forming a con- 
spicuous patch. 
Total length about 10 inches, culmen 1.2, wing 5.4, tail 3.9, tarsus 
1.8. 
Hanrrar.—Gunung Mengkuang Lebah, 5,200', Selangor, Ist Feb- 
ruary, 1905. 
, e 
[The o Hel оре about fourteen or fifteen species 
nging from Turkes Sm found also in the islands of 
Ceylon, Pte Ja dp Formosa They are all Mo much 
alike, their pado bei 
glistening ү 
wider yi ne specie, Th t the d in Li 
 chestnu requ t t e 
jungle; usally at som vix age s а 
н s кы 1 һу them. One аа 
Myiophoneus eugenei, is quite common in the vicinity of the Batu 
Caves and occurs also near Taiping. Elsewhere it is found in Burma, 
Tenasserim, Si d Yunnan.—HozgsgnT C. Бовіхвох.] 
