. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . The position of this genus, of yE(jit?iina which is very closelyallied to it, and of Chloroiisis is very doubtful. In all three the sexesare dissimilar and in the first two the summer and winter plumagesof the males are different. They have frequently been placed ina family with the Bulbuls and one or two others but they appearto me to be even less closely connected with them than with thetruly Timaliine birds. Probably they should be placed in a familyby themselves leading from the Timaliidce to the Pycnonotidce butfor the present I l
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . The position of this genus, of yE(jit?iina which is very closelyallied to it, and of Chloroiisis is very doubtful. In all three the sexesare dissimilar and in the first two the summer and winter plumagesof the males are different. They have frequently been placed ina family with the Bulbuls and one or two others but they appearto me to be even less closely connected with them than with thetruly Timaliine birds. Probably they should be placed in a familyby themselves leading from the Timaliidce to the Pycnonotidce butfor the present I leave them as they are. Specimens in spirit arewanted for examination. (361) Aethorhynchus Great Ion a. lora lafresnayi Hartl., Rev. Zool., 1844, p. 401 (Z^Ialacca).Aethorhynchus hifres?>ayi. Blauf. & Gates, i, p. 228. Vernacular names. Xone recorded. Description.—Breeding male. Upper plumage dull green, thefeathers fringed with black: wings, tail and upper tail-covertsdeep black, the primaries and outer secondaries very narrowly. Fig. ()o.—Head of Ac. lafresnayi. edged with greenish on the outer and more broadly with white onthe inner webs ; lores, cheeks, a ring round the eye and the wholelower plumage bright yellow. Non-breeding male and female. Upper plumage without theblack fringes; the tail dull greenish j^ellow; primaries and second-aries brown instead of black. Colours of soft parts. Ii-is brown or hazel-brown; bill plum-beous, leaden blue or bluish slate, the culmen darker; legs andfeet clear slate or plumbeous blue, the claws horny-brown. Measurements. Length about 165 ram.: wing 67 to 72 mm.;tail about 55 to 57 mm.; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen about]7 mm. Distribution. From South Arrakan down West Burma and the Malay Peninsula, Siam and ? Annam. Nidification. Two nests taken by Mr. W. A. T. Kellow nearPerak are small, ratlier deep cups of the softest grasses, linedwith the same and well bound round and about with spiders webs,often
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