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discovered some fifty years ago it seems to be rare and 

 but little appears to have been recorded of its habits. 



Our specimen, an adult female, was captured in its nest 

 in a hollow bough in the same jungle as Draco maximus. 

 The nest was merely a tunnel about three inches in 

 diameter and eighteen in length, roughly lined with 

 fibrous materi and with green leaves. The general 

 colour of the animal is a pale greyish brown above, some- 

 what yellowish beneath with an ill-defined dark stripe 

 running from the muzzle to a little beyond the eye. The 

 tail is naked for two-thirds of its length and covered 

 with scutes like that of a rat ; the terminal third is 

 clothed with whitish hair over half an inch in length, 

 whence the trivial name of the species is derived. 



Dimensions : — Head and body, 133 ; tail, 167 ; ear 19 ; 

 hind-foot, 34 mm. Examination of a series will not 

 improbably prove that the Peninsular form is separable 

 from the Bornean race, but distinctions based on an 

 unique specimen are apt to be fallacious. 



H. C. Robinson. 



Selangor State Museum, 



Kuala Lumpor. 



Occasional Notes. 



Pratincola manra (Pall.) 



A specimen of the Indian Bush-chat was shot by Cap- 

 tain H. R. Baker at Stagmount, Singapore on Dec. 22, 

 1904. Hitherto it has beencollected'as far down as My- 

 sore and the Andamans but Singapore must now be record- 

 ed as its most southerly extension. As the species is now 

 included is the avifanna of the Malay Peninsula I give 

 below a description of the plumage in which it was ob- 

 tained locally. 



Male. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, back, scapu- 

 lars, most of the wing-coverts, and upper rump black, 



R. A. Soc., No. 44, 1905. 



