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The large series of skins in the British Museum, ranging from India to 

 the Malay Peninsula, clearly shews that the width of the white tips to the 

 tail-feathers is an unimportant character, and that R. atrata, of Salvadori, has 

 no claim to specific rank. The iris is brown, the bill black, and the feet 

 brownish-grey. 



1 Not rare at Telom, and in habits precisely resembling the foregoing 

 species.' 



101. Terpsiphone incii, Gould. 



Terpsiphone incii, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv, p. 350 (1879). 



$ imm. Ban Sai Kau, Nawngchik. 17th September. (No. 395) 



<Jjuv. Bukit Besar. 2,500 feet. 30th April. (No. 17) 



An immature male of Ince's Paradise Fly-catcher has the iris brown ? 

 the bill cobalt-blue, and the feet lead-colour ; a still younger male in first 

 plumage is similar, but the bill is lead-colour, tinged with pink. 



102. Terpsiphone affinis, (Blyth.) 

 Terpsiphone affinis, Skarpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 270; Bonhote, p. 60; Hartert, 

 P. 553- 



$, 9 ad. et imm. Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. 2,500 feet. May. 



(Nos. 58, 63, 64, 71, 86, 92, 95) 

 $ ad. Gedong, South Perak. 1 2th January. 



(No. 533) 



Adult males of the Burmese Paradise Fly-catcher have the iris chestnut- 

 brown, the bill cobalt-blue, the inside of the mouth emerald-green, the 

 wattle round the eye cobalt-blue, and the feet blue-grey. 



The female has the bill dark horn, paler at the base. 



* This wonderful Fly-catcher, perhaps the most beautiful of all birds, was 

 very abundant on Bukit Besar, though full-plumaged males in good condition 

 were somewhat hard to procure, as they were very shy and restless. They 

 are very proud of their plumage, and display it by perching across a bough, 

 depressing and half-spreading the wings and raising and expanding the tail, 

 a habit which is shared by the Shama and the Magpie-Robin. 



' A nest was found on Bukit Besar on the 7th May. It was built in the 

 fork of a small sapling about eight feet from the ground, and externally has 

 a deep crucible-shaped cup covered with moss, and internally a shallow oval 

 cup lined with the fine black tendrils of a creeper. 



' Malay name, Mirbau ekor gading (Ivory-tailed Thrush). 



' The food consists largely of evil-smelling Bugs, such as Acanthccoris 

 scalier.'' N.A. 



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