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son’s genus Volvocivoba, of which the present is most probably 
one. As compared to Y. silens, (Tickell, V. melaschistos, Hodgson,) 
of India, it is of a paler colour throughout, especially on the rump 
where the feathers are much more strongly spinous ; the abdominal 
region also is pale, and the lower tail-coverts are whitish ; the secon- 
daries being slightly margined and the tertiaries more strongly tipped 
with white. The second primary is also shorter, with reference to 
the third primary. 
Pseldolalage, nobis, n. g. General aspect of Lalage, Boie ; 
but having the rump-feathers strongly spinous, whereas in Lalage 
they are quite soft and flexible. 
Ps. MELABOLEtrcA, nobis, n. s. Male black (glossed with green) 
contrasting with pure white, except on the rump and upper tail 
coverts where the white is tinged with grey ; these colours disposed 
much as in the male of Lalage obientalis, (6m.), except that 
there is no white supercilium, and the white on the outside of the 
wing forms a single elongated patch, confined to the outer webs of 
the tertiaries and their greater coverts only ; the white tipping the 
caudal feathers being also much less extended. Pemale pale grey 
above, but retaining the black on the wings and tail ; the white of 
the fore-neck, breast, and flanks a little tinged with grey, having 
faintish transverse bars of the hue of the back. Length about 9 in., 
of wing 4f in., and tail 3i in. ; bill to gape H in. ; and tarse f in. 
Female a trifle smaller. There is a faint appearance of barred mark- 
ings on the pale rump of the female. 
Gabpophaga sylyatica, Tickell. Young, which does not differ, 
that I can perceive, from that of the Indian and Burmese species. 
Chalcophaps ibdicus, (L.) Female. The same remark applies, 
except that there is a circlet of rufescent feathers surrounding the 
bare skin of the orbits. 
Ttjbnix ooellata; Oriolus (!) ocellatus, Scopoli: Tetrao luzoni- 
ensis, Gmelin ; Hemipodius thoracicus, Temminck. (Caille de VIsle 
de Lngon, Sonnerat, Voy. a la JSfouv. Guin., p. 54). Female, distin- 
guished by having a deep ferruginous-coloured nape, a blacker head 
with minute white specks, and some other minute distinctions, from 
the kindred races of Java and Malacca (pugnax, Tern., atrogularis, 
Fyton,) of India generally and Ceylon, (taigoor, Sykes), of Bengal 
