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It is also evidently the species to which Major Tickell directed my 
attention, as a white-headed Main a common about Rangoon; and 
which he had only observed in that vicinity; but I did not chance 
to meet with it. # 
Anthocincla, nobis, n. g . A very remarkable Thrush-like 
Mgiotherine (?) form, with short tail and rounded wings ; the tarse 
moderate or somewhat short, and the toes furnished with straight 
claws, especially that on the hind toe. Bill as in the coarser-billed 
Oreocincla*:, with no perceptible notch to the upper mandible. No 
rietal vibrissce. Plumage devoid of bright colours. 
A. Phayrei, nobis, n. s. Length about 9| in,, of which tail barely 
2 in ; closed wing 4 in., the fourth and fifth primaries longest, and 
the first primary measuring 2 in. : bill to gape 1^ in. ; tarse 11 in. ; 
hind-claw T ^- in. Colour a rich brown above, paler and more fulvous 
below, where each feather has a black spot on either web: middle of 
throat white, bordered laterally with black, and this again by a 
streak of black-margined fulvous-white feathers, below the brown 
ear-coverts; a long supercilium of feathers resembling those of the 
white moustache-streak, and above this again the feathers on the 
sides of the crown are squamate and pale-centred: primaries and 
their coverts black, save an angular fulvous spot at the base of the 
first primary; tertiaries plain brown, like the back, but the coverts 
of the secondaries black with broad fulvous sagittate tips. Bill 
dusky ; and feet and claws pale. Tounghoo. 
Pyciswotus eamiliaris, nobis, n. s. Form typical. Plumage 
light earthy-brown, paler beneath, less so on the breast; the lower 
tail-coverts a little rufescent : stems of the ear-coverts conspicuously 
white. Bill dusky-corneous ; and legs apparently the same. Length 
about 8 in., of which tail 3| in.; closed wing in. : bill to gape 
A in.; and tarse the same. Tounghoo. This dull-plumaged species 
was also procured at Thayet-myo by Dr. Jerdon, who informs me that 
* Acridotheres tristis, Acr. Eusctrs, and Sttjrnorastor contra, var., I 
observed abundantly so far south as Mergui; but I know of only the second as an 
inhabitant of the Malayan peninsula. Tenasserim specimens of the first are 
dark-coloured, like those of Ceylon. At Mergui there is also the Calornis dau- 
eicus, a common Malayan species. Temenijchus malabarictjs I observed 
abundantly near Moulmein, and far in the interior of Martaban province. The 
Pastor peguanvs , Lesson (Belanger’s Toy.), is no other than the young of F. 
roseus! 
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