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CATALOGUE. 
" This bird arrives in tbe hills about the middle of April, in small 
parties of five or six, but it does not appear to ascend above 5,500 
to 6,000 feet, and is, therefore, more properly an inhabitant of the 
warm valleys. I do not remember observing it at Masuri, which is 
6,500 to 7,000 feet, although at 5,200 feet, on the same range, it is 
abundant during summer. Its note and flight are very much like 
those of the Sturnus vulga/ris^ and it delights to take a short and 
rapid flight and return twittering to perch on the very summit of 
the forest-trees ; I have never seen it on the ground, and its food 
appears to consist of berries. It nidificates in the holes of trees, 
lining the cavity with bits of leaves, cut by itself; the eggs are 
usually 3, or sometimes 4 or 5, of a delicate pale sea-green, speckled 
with blood-like stains, which sometimes tend to form a ring near the 
larger end ; shape oval, somewhat tapering ; diameter l-j^ x W in." 
— (Captain Hutton.) 
Genus Pyrrhocheira, Reichenhach (1850). 
Amydetjs, Cahmis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, p. 201 (1851). 
Naboijrotjpus, Bona'parte (1853). 
817. PYBBHOCHEIBA BUPPELLI, Verreaux Sp. 
Amydrus Eiippelli, Verreaux, Comptes Bendus (1851), 
p. . Bh/th, X A. S. Beng. XXIV. p. 300. 
Lamprotornis Morio, a]^ud Bilpp., Syst. Uehers. p. 75. 
A. ? . Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
Genus Pilorhinus, Cabanis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, p. 201 
(1851). 
818. PILOBHINUS ALBIBOSTBIS, Buppell Sp. 
Ptilonorhynchus albirostris, Biipp., Faun. Abyss. Av. 
p. 22, t. 9,/ 1, 2 (1835) ; Syst. TTehers. p. 75. 
Pilorhinus albirostris, Cabanis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, 
p. 201. 
Juida albirostris, C B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. p. 327. 
A. Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
Genus Lamprocolius, Sundemll, Vet. Acad. Handl. (1835). 
819. LAMPBOCOLIUS CYANIVENTBIS, Blyth. 
Lamprotornis cyaniventris, Blytliy J. A. S. Beng. XXIV. 
p. 255 (1855). 
