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the hills, as well as on the coast of Selangor and in the Aroa 
Islands, in the middle of the Straits of Malacca, during the 
winter months. 
224. Franklinia rufescens. 
Cisticola beavani (Wald.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. 
p. 225. 
Franklinia rufescens (Blyth); Robinson, p. 208. 
? . Tap-tien, Trang, North Malay Peninsula, 1st De¬ 
cember, 1909. 
Widely distributed both in the mountains and plains, as 
far south as Selangor, during the winter months only. 
Sturnid,e. 
225. Eulabes javanensis. 
Mainatus javanensis (Osbeck); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xiii. p. 102 (1890). 
The large Mynah is fairly common in well-wooded country 
throughout the Peninsula, and was especially abundant on 
Pulau Tioman and on the Langkawi group. It is social in 
its habits, flying and feeding in parties of six or seven. It 
nests in holes in dead trees, usually very high up and 
generally inaccessible. 
As elsewhere where the genus occurs, it is a favourite 
cage-bird, and can readily be taught to talk, clever birds 
commanding a very high price. 
226. Eulabes intermedius. 
Mainatus intermedius (A. Hay); Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 66; 
Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1901, p. 66. 
We secured two specimens of the smaller Grackle in 
Trang, the first, curiously enough, that we have as yet 
obtained, though we have made a point of shooting one or 
two of the genus in every locality visited. 
It is distinguishable at a glance from E. javanensis by its 
very much smaller size, especially in the bill, and by the 
form of the lappets, which are quite different in the two 
species. 
Eulabes intermedius appears to be essentially a northern 
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