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also in Siam,the Malayan peninsula, and Sumatra. I saw some immense 
bull Buffaloes drawing hackeries near Martaban station, that would 
have astonished the natives of Bengal; and many others in the 
interior, feeding in the forest near the Karen villages, and which are 
oftentimes unsafe for Europeans to approach, though quite tractable 
to the natives to whom they are accustomed. # 
Of birds, the following new species were procured by Col. Phayre. 
Gecinttliis yiridis, nobis, n. s. Differs from G. Grantia, (McClel¬ 
land), in being wholly of a dull green colour, more yellowish towards 
the nape ; the rump feathers crimson-tipped : inner webs of the wing- 
feathers dusky, with round white spots as seen from beneath, these 
spots being much smaller than in G. Grantia : tail dusky above, 
the feathers green-edged for the basal half, and all but the middle 
pair having four small whitish spots bordering the basal half of their 
inner webs. Bill ivory-white, save laterally towards base, where livid. 
Feet green. The male would doubtless differ (as in G. Grantia) by 
having a red coronal patch. From Tounglioo. 
Crtpsieina cucullata, Jerdon.f Form typical, except that the 
* At Mergui, I was riding along a beautiful jungle-road, when, coming to a 
swamp, a herd of about thirty of these huge beasts rushed suddenly from the 
jungle, and made direct for me through the shallow water, menacing by tossing 
their heads and raising their tails and stamping with their fore-feet, when at last 
they came to a halt, one after another. I confess that I did not overmuch like 
the look of them, but still could not help admiring their noble appearance. To 
have run from them would have been to entice them on ; so I checked my pony, 
not to appear alarmed, and walked quietly by in front of them, they continuing 
to menace all the while ; after a short time I broke into a trot, and thought that 
I had well passed the Buffaloes, when, looking behind, I found that I was pur¬ 
sued by two bulls, who were already in unpleasant proximity to my nag’s tail, 
their foot-fall producing no sound on the thinly turfed sandy road. I turned 
suddenly round and shouted at them, when they made off right and left, to my 
relief and rather to my surprise. I was afterwards necessitated to repass the 
same herd on my return, when half a dozen of them were fronting me in the 
centre of the only path, though scarcely threatening as before. I thought it 
best policy to ride direct towards them at a fast pace, and, when quite close 
to them, again shouted aloud, whereupon they at once dispersed, trotting off 
quietly into the swamp. A little afterwards I passed another and much larger 
herd of these wild-looking Buffaloes, but which took not the slightest notice of 
me. A native child will belabour them with a stick, and soon clear a passage 
through the herd. But they are not always to be trusted. When I was first at 
Moulmein a must bull tore through the main street of that town, killing one man 
and injuring others, and then betaking himself to the river, when the ebb-tide 
being at the time very strong, it was supposed that he was carried out to sea. 
t This and the next species, with some others procured at Thayet-myo, have 
been lately described by Dr. Jerdon in The Ibis. My written descriptions, 
liow r ever, of this and one or two others, w ? ere awaiting publication for a consider¬ 
able time before my friend, Dr. Jerdon, obtained his specimens. Of course I now 
adopt his appellations. 
