180 Zoological Society, 



of C. tridactyla. It is figured by Messrs. Jardine and Selby in the 

 * Illustrations of Zoology/ ser. 1. pi. 55. f. 2. as C. tridactyla. Mr. 

 Jerdon, in his ' Illustrations of Indian Zoology/ refers this bird to 

 Alcedo madagascariensis, Lin. ; but as that bird is distinctly described 

 by the accurate Brisson as having four toes, it must be a true Alcedo, 

 and I have therefore given a new specific name to the present bird. 



PrionocMlus thoracicus, (Tern,), PL Col. 600. f. 1. — Temminck's 

 specimens were from Borneo, an island which has but few species in 

 common with the peninsula of Malacca. This is closely allied to 

 P. percussus, which I adopted as the type of my genus PrionocMlus. 

 This genus is very near to Dicaum, and has the stoutest and shortest 

 beak of all the Nectariniidce. Many systematists would place it near 

 Pipra or Pardalotus, but the finely serrated mandibles point out its 

 true affinities. 



DiccEum chrysorrTiKum, Tern. PL Col. 478. — Judging from the 

 similarity of plumage in the young of PrionocMlus percussus, I sus- 

 pect that this bird is either the female or young of some other species 

 of DiccBum. 



Phyllornis moluccensis (Gray), Zool. Misc. — This is the P. mala' 

 baricus of Tem. PL Col. 512. f. 2. andof Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1843, p. 957, but is not the true malabaricus of Sonnerat and Sco- 

 poli, which has been rediscovered in South India by Mr. Jerdon, and 

 is a larger bird, with the head green and the forehead orange. The 

 last is the P. ccesmarhynchus of Tickell. In P. moluccensis the whole 

 top and sides of the head are a clear yellow, surrounding the black 

 of the chin and throat, and passing into golden yellow on the hind 

 neck. A small spot on each side of the maxilla indigo-blue. Rest 

 of body green ; lesser wing-covers azure, primaries and lateral rec- 

 trices externally greenish blue. P. aurifrons of Nepal diflfers from 

 both the above in the chin being blue, &c. 



Parus flavocristatus, Lafr. (Melanochlora sumatrana, Less. ; Cratai- 

 onyx ater, and Jlavus, Eyton ; Parus sultaneus, Hodgs.) — One of the 

 Malacca specimens is fully as large and as long-crested as Mr. Hodg- 

 son's Nepal ones. This is a perfectly typical Parus, and is the 

 largest species which I know except the so-called Oreoica cristata of 

 Australia, which I also consider a true Parus. 



Pitta cyanura, Gm. {M. affinis, Horsf.) — An immature specimen; 

 exhibits plain blue feathers in various parts of the abdomen, which 

 appear to be sui)planting the barred black and rufous feathers com- 

 monly seen in this species. 



Turdus modestus, Eyton. — One of the specimens before me, pro- 

 bably a fully adult, has the whole throat cinereous brown, and only 

 the tip of the chin white. 



Criniyer gularis (KoTsf.), {Ixos phceocephalus, Hartl. ; TrichophO' 

 rus caniceps, Lafr.; Pycnonotus rufocaudatus , Eyton). — This is a true 

 Crinigery though the beak is rather wider than in the type species. 



Pycnonotus cyaniventris, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. (Malaco- 

 pteron aureum, Eyton). — The smallest species of Pycnonotus with 



