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beak is much shorter than in Cr. variaks, and there is no velvety 
frontal hand as in the other : ten tail-feathers only ; and the long 
middle pair expanding greatly at tip, as in Cr. tartars. General 
colour silvery pearl-grey, with a black hood and white nape ; the 
primaries and their coverts black, the secondaries having a whitish 
exterior border; middle tail-feathers black, a little tinged with grey¬ 
ish except on the expanded tips ; the graduating lateral tail-feathers 
albescent-greyish, with a faint tinge of brown. Bill black, the base 
of both mandibles, below the nasal tuft of the upper, bright yellow 
in the young ; and feet dusky. Length about 13 in., of which tail 
7i in., its penultimate feathers 1^ in. less : closed wing 4|- in.: bill 
to gape 1 in.; and tarse the same. Tounghoo. 
The Cr. variaxs (also sent) is particularly common in the hills 
behind Moulmein ; and is one of several Javanese species that like¬ 
wise inhabit the Burmese region, and have not hitherto been 
observed in the Malayan peninsula. Another is Ploceus hypoxax- 
thtts, (Daudin), a flock of which I observed in Rangoon (in addition 
to the common Bayd, the two species associating apart), and speci¬ 
mens were obtained by Dr. Jerdon in Thayet-myo. Crypsirina 
CTJCULLATA is interesting, as constituting a second well-marked 
species of its genus, both of them being remarkable among the Cor - 
vidous Pies for having only ten caudal rectrices. 
Temenuchus burmaxensis, Jerdon. A fine species, approaching 
to acridotiieres in size, the markings of its wings and tail, and 
also in having the skin bare under and behind the eye. Length 
about 9| in., of closed wing 4^ in., and tail 3 in.; bill to gape in.; 
and tarse 1^ in. Culmen of bill compressed and elevated above the 
nostrils. Head, cheeks and throat, white ; the back and scapularies 
pure ashy; and the lower parts vinaceous, passing to white on the 
lower tail-coverts : wing-primaries white at base, the remainder black ; 
secondaries and tertiaries, with their coverts, bronzed, and having a 
narrow black margin to each feather ; underneath, the wing is white 
on the anterior half and dusky for the remainder; middle tail-fea¬ 
thers brown, and black-margined like the tertiaries, the rest black— 
each feather more largely white-tipped to the exterior. Bill coral- 
coloured, with the basal half of the lower mandible and below the 
nostrils black : legs and claws bright yellow. Tounghoo. Procured 
also at Thayet-myo by Dr. Jerdon, and at Ava by Mr. W. T. Blanford. 
