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Show 1887.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON SYRNIUM MAINGAYI. 471 distinct collar ; scapulars with slightly indicated whitish shaft-lines, several of them white externally, narrowly barred with rufous-brown ; lesser wing-coverts uniform chocolate-brown ; median and greater coverts rufous-brown, with reddish-buff cross bars, the ends slightly vermiculated with dusky dots ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts nearly uniform blackish, with slight indications of rufous-brown bars near the ends ; quills dark chocolate-brown, regularly barred with rufous-brown, paler on the outer web of the primaries ; upper tail-coverts chocolate-brown, numerously barred with reddish-brown cross bands, whitish on some of them ; tail-feathers brown, crossed with well-marked bars of fulvous, ten in number ou the centre feathers and twelve on the outside ones; crown of head and hind neck uniform chocolate-brown; lores black, as well as the feathers around the eye, surmounted by an eyebrow of rufous, impinging on the forehead ; ear-coverts and cheeks chestnut-rufous, slightly fulves-cent on the lower parts of the latter; the whole of the rufous face surrounded by a chocolate-brown ruff, joined to the chin, which is chocolate-brown also, followed by a band of white across the lower throat; fore neck and remainder of under surface of body tawny buff, regularly and narrowly barred with dark brown, some feathers with intermediate white spaces instead of buff; thighs obscure brown ; under tail-coverts buffy white, with narrow brown cross bars ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rather deeper buff than the breast, barred with darker brown; a patch of dark brown near the edge of the wing on the outer -greater coverts; quills below dark brown, barred with tawny buff, broader on the inner web. Total length 21 inches, wing 14-3, tail 8'4. Both Captain Pinwill's specimens are more uniform on the mantle than the type, and one of these shows indications of uniformity on the chest, as is usual with S. newarense when it gets very old. The wing in both examples is 13"1 inches. Hab. Neighbourhood of Malacca. a. Ad. sk. Malacca, July 1877 Hume Collection. (TV. Davison). (Type of species.) b, c. Ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. I also give a list of the specimens of Syrnium newarense and S. indrani now in the Museum, with remarks on and measurements of each individual specimen, showing how difficult it is to draw the line between these two species, notwithstanding that the typical forms of each are well characterized aud distinct from each other. 2. SYRNIUM NEWARENSE. Syrnium newarense, Hodgs. Icon. ined. Accipitres, pl. 34 (no. 59) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 281 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 83; Scully, t. c. p. 229. Bulaca newarensis, David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 46 (1877); Blanf. Str. F. 1877, p. 483. Syrnium indranee, Blyth, B. Burm. p. 67(1875); Walden, Ibis, |