CATALOGUE. 
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Corvus caudatus, Shaw^ JSfat. Misc. t. 561. 
Phrenotrix Temia, Horsfield^ Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 
p. 163 (1820) ; Zool Bes. in Java, t. 50. 
Temia Levaillanti, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 342. 
Chekattjt, or Benteot, Java, Horsjield. 
A. b. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
C. Sumatra. From Raffles's Collection. 
d. Drawing. Siam. From Finlayson's Collection. 
"Although this is not a rare bird in Java, it is by no means 
familiar, and never approaches the villages and habitations. It is 
only observed near solitary hamlets situated in tracts recently cleared 
for cultivation, where its food is abundantly supplied by the insects 
contained in the rich mould, and by the wild fruit about the skirts. 
In consequence of the shortness of the wings, its motions are slow. 
It is chiefly seen about noon, sailing heavily through the air in a 
right line towards the trees surrounding the openings in the forest. 
The strength of the bill and of the claws shows its adaptation to 
feed both on fruits and insects." — (Horsfield, Zool. E-es. in Java.) 
" This species is very remarkable (among birds of the great pas- 
serine type of structure) for having but ten tail-feathers, like the 
Drongos; and it is a curious fact, at first sight, the tail even 
resembles that of a Drongo, in its expansion and exterior curl 
upward at tip ; but there is this essential difference, that the tail 
of Cr. varians, instead of being forked, is, in the opposite way, 
extremely graduated, and the expansion and curvature is accordingly 
exhibited by the two middle tail-feathers, instead of the outermost, 
as in the Drongos." — (Blyth.) 
This bird appears to be of common occurrence in the Tenasserim 
provinces. 
" Common in the neighbourhood of Moulmein." — (Eev. F. Mason, 
Natural Productions of Burmah, p. 271.) 
Genus Dendrocitta, Gould, P. Z. S. (1833), p. 57. 
848. DENDROCITTA RUFA, Scopoli Sp. 
Corvus rufus, ScopoU (1786). Lath., Ind. Orn. 1, p. 161; 
Gen. Hist, of B. III. p. 29. {Sonn., Voy. Ind. IL 
p. 186, t. 106. Le Vaill, Ois. d'Afr. t. 59.) 
Dendrocitta rufa, Hartl, Syst. Verz. (1844), p. 63. 
Hodgson, Catal. B. of Nepal, p. 101. Blyth, J. A. 
S. Beng. XVI. p. 469 ; Ann. N. H. XX. p. 383 ; 
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