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II. Description of two new species of Birds discovered by CapL Hay, 
in the Phillipine Islands. 
These Birds having been obtained from the Natives, who use them as 
plumes, were deficient of their wings and feet. 
Large Billed Pitta. Pitta macrorhychus. Green ; head, neck, and bill 
black ; rump, blue-green ; lower part of abdomen and vent crimson ; bill, 
large, black ; head slightly crested ; wings — Length 6 J inches. Inhab. 
Phillipine Islands. 
Phillipine Oriole. Oriolus PhilUpensis. Head, upper part of neck, 
back, epigastrum, and tail, coal black ; lower part of neck, chest, belly, 
and rump, bright golden yellow ; paler on the back of the neck ; bill, 
yellow ; wings, ? feet ? Length 7| inches. Inhab. Phillipine 
Islands. 
HI. Descriptions of three undescribed species of Birds ^ discovered and 
drawn by John Crawfurd, Esq.., at Siam. 
Siam Malhoha. Phcenicophaus Crawfurdii, t. 2. Blue-green, rather 
paler beneath ; vent, red-brown ; tips of tail feathers, white ; bill and 
feet, greenish; orbits, moderate, red. Inhab. Siam. Length 16 inches; 
tail 8; bill inch. 
Bay Cuckoo. Coccyzus badius^ t. 1 . Pale bay ; paler beneath ; tail, 
with numerous narrow, pale, and dark brown bands ; end, (| an inch 
long) white; bill, long, green; orbits and lores naked greenish; feet, 
ash-brown. Length 12, tail 6, and bill 1 inch. Inhab. Siam. 
Sumatran Bar bet, (Lath. Hist.) Bucco trimaculatus, t. 3. Green; fore- 
head, cheeks, band across the throat, quills, and tail feathers, except the 
two middle ones, black; nape and chin blue; cheeks with three red spots 
on each side ; bill, black ; feet, yellow. Length 6 inches. Inhab, Siam. 
IV. Description of a new species of Hornbill, from ilfayor Farquhar’s 
Drawing. 
Brown- tailed Hornbill. Buceros Farquhari. Black; sides of head 
and neck, white ; tail end, pale brown ; bill, compressed ; base, with an 
ovate protuberance ; young sides of face and neck, dark brown ; bill, 
smaller, with an ovate protuberance extending half its length. Inhab. 
Malacca. It is to- Major Farquhar that we are indebted to the know- 
ledge of the Malay Tapir, the Galeated Hornbill, the Viverra gmynura. 
Bamboo Rat, the Binturong, and many other animals. 
V. On the Genus Alectura of Latham, and the family Menurid^. 
Dr. Latham in the last page of the last volume of his History of Birds, 
proposed to form his New Holland Vulture into a genus under the name 
of Alectura, but he has given no character by which to distinguish it ; 
he very properly observes that this Bird should be placed near Menura. 
The genus Alecturus of Vicillot, is now considered a Muscicapa. 
Gen. Alectura, Lath, (no character.) Fam. Menuridw. 
Bill short, strong, convex ; culmen, strongly curved from the base ; 
