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black, which colour extends to below the eye. Wing 1°95. 
Z. austeni, is an allied form of greater dimensions, above 
olive-green, without a yellow tint, and with only the chin, 
throat, and under tail-coverts clear yellow. 
Colonel Tickell’s observations on Jora zeylanica and J. typhia, 
which species are both figured on the succeeding plate, do 
not throw any light on the mystery which envelops their 
mutations of plumage. He seems to have simply recognized 
them as constituting two distinct species. J. zeylanicu 
3, from Moulmein, is represented with the head and nape 
changing to black, and the scapulars unmargined black. 
I. typhia 8, from Hazaribagh, is in typical plumage. Jora 
lafresnayt 9, from a specimen shot by Colonel Tickell at 
Aseen, near Yé, is fairly depicted; and he states that it is a 
rarer bird than the two other species. 
To the Leaf-birds (Phyllornis) four plates are assigned. 
On the first P. jerdont 3, ex Moulmein, and ¢, ex Pyntee, 
Bengal, are stated to be figured. The occurrence of P. jer- 
dont in Tenasserim is extremely doubtful, although the figure 
agrees best with that species. As described, both birds be- 
long to P. chlorucephalus. The example of P.javensis, which 
Colonel Tickell discovered on the Mooleyit range in 1855 
(J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277), is figured; its Tenasserim habitat has 
been since confirmed by Mr. Davison, who found it at Yé. 
The plates and accounts given of the species belonging to 
the genera Yuhina, Oriolus, Irena, and Upupa, with which 
the volume closes, offer no matter for remark beyond this, 
that the figure of Psarolophus trailli, ex Darjeeling, applies 
better to P. ardens. 
The next two volumes, v. and vi., contain the DenrrrostRrzes, 
vol. v. being restricted to the Laniidz and the Muscicapide, 
with thirty-eight plates. 
The Burman Volvocivora avensis, Blyth, is figured from 
Tenasserim examples under the title of V. fimbriata (T.). 
The particoloured middle pair of rectrices found in certain 
examples of Pericrocotus speciosus, more especially among 
those from Assam and Burma, have been regarded by some 
as constituting a good specific character, sufficient to dif- 







