on the Birds of Calcutta. 393 



land. The large gull alluded to was probably L. ichthya'etus, 

 Pallas, which abounds at the mouth of the river, and has a jet- 

 black hood in the breeding season. 



The small cormorant (No. 92) is Graculus pygmcms, the only 

 species of the genus I have met with in Lower Bengal. 



No. 94 is Casarca rutila (Pallas) ; here commonly termed 

 Chuckwd-chuckwee. Rdj-hdns applies exclusively to the true 

 Geese. 



With M. Sundevall I consider the domestic geese of Bengal to 

 be a hybrid race between A. cygnoides of China and the European 

 tame goose, A. cinereus, which latter is here a regular cold-wea- 

 ther visitant. Anas boschas does not occur here wild ; though it 

 is found up the country. 



No. 97 is Dendrocygna awsuree (Sykes), and I believe identical 

 with Anas arcuata, Horsfield ; more especially as this common 

 Indian species is equally abundant at Malacca. 



In the foregoing remarks upon M. SundevalFs paper, I have 

 been particular to correct some of the native names assigned to 

 various species, that they should not in future be quoted wrongly 

 in systematic works. That gentleman undoubtedly made good 

 use of the opportunities afforded by his brief sojourn in this 

 vicinity. 



June 24, 1847. 



P.S. I avail myself of this occasion to remark on a few other 

 oriental species of birds, descriptions of which have lately appeared 

 in the [ Annals/ 



Mr. Strickland's Centropus rectunguis (vol. xix. p. 134) I have 

 already referred to C. Lathami (Shaw), v. dimidiatus, nobis. — 

 His Phyllornis moluccensis, Gray (p. 130), is surely the Turdus 

 cochinchinensis, Gm., founded on le Verdin de la Cochinchine of 

 Buffon. Arracan specimens merely differ in having the crown 

 yellower, while the breast, immediately below the black throat, 

 is scarcely tinged with yellow as in the Malacca specimens ; but 

 the two cannot be separated, nor are probably these differences 

 constant. Ph. casmarynchus of Tickell is my Ph. Jerdoni ; the 

 former name being evidently a misprint for casmarhynchus (vide 

 Griffith's version of Cuvier's ' Animal Kingdom '), which again is 

 a misprint for gampsorhynchus of Jardine and Selby. — Turdus 

 modestus, Eyton, must be referred to T. rufulus, Drapiez, in the 

 * Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat/ — P. 132. 1 recognise three well-marked 

 species of Shrike in the synonyms which Mr. Strickland has 

 brought together : viz. L. phcenicurus, Pallas, common to India 

 and the Malay countries ; L. super ciliosus, Lath., which with the 

 next is never found in India ; and L. tigrinus, Drapiez, y. mag- 



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