Calcutta, with Notes by H. E. Strickland. 39 



No. 27. I observe that Sir W. Jardine remarks, in the ' Natura- 

 list's Library ' (British Birds, vol. i.), that — " Of the extra-European 

 specimens of birds which are considered to be identical with the En- 

 glish barn owl, the under-parts are always more tinged with ochra- 

 ceous." This, however, certainly does not apply to the common 

 Indian barn owl, which, as I before stated, differs neither in this re- 

 spect nor in any other from the bird of Europe. I have Calcutta 

 specimens with under-parts of the most pure snowy- white, and others 

 more or less coloured beneath, precisely as in those of England. 



No. 27 a. I have obtained Ketupa Leschenaulti half- grown, and 

 from the analogy of plumage I feel confident that Strix coromanda, 

 as figured by Hardwicke, is the young of my umbrata, but certainly 

 not the true coromanda. 



No. 31. This is Buceros albirostris of Shaw, a species which re- 

 presents B. malabaricus of the Indian peninsula, in Bengal, Nepal, 

 Assam, and to the eastward of the bay of Bengal. Latham, however, 

 has badly figured it as B. malabaricus in his vol. ii. pi. 38. 



No. 32. I can perceive no good distinction between the Hoopoes 

 of Bengal and Southern India, further than that the latter are rather 

 smaller and considerably more deeply coloured. The Bengal bird is 

 decidedly the European hoopoe, and the position of the white bar 

 upon the tail varies in different specimens, being in some also much 

 more oblique than in others. 



No. 33 a. I have obtained a single specimen of Merops phillipinus. 



No. 34. This common species is replaced in Assam, Tipperah, 

 Arracan and the Tenasserim provinces by Coracias assamensis 

 (M'Clelland and Horsfield), which in those parts appears to be 

 equally common. 



No. 37. Halcyon amauropterus is found at all seasons, and may 

 generally be met with in the Botanic Garden and one or two other 

 localities. I have also obtained H. atricapillus, which Mr. Jerdon 

 has likewise recently done in Southern India ; and Todirhamphus col- 

 laris. H. coromandus I have received from Nepal and from the east- 

 ern side of the bay. 



No. 42. Bucco caniceps is common in the Soonderbuns, and to the 

 eastward abounds in Tipperah and in Arracan. 



No. 43. Picas strictus appears to be the P. goensis of recent au- 

 thors, but does not well agree with Daubenton's orginal description. 

 This and some allied species constitute my division Chrysocolaptes 

 (Journ. As. Soc. B. no. 59. p. 1004), which I consider to be very 

 distinct from Mr. Strickland's Brachypternus, founded on P. auran- 

 tius, v. bengalensis. 



No. 43 a. Picas (Gecinus) striolatus, nobis, J. A. S. B. vol. xii. 

 p. 1000, has been procured near here by W. Earle, Esq. 



No. 48. I have obtained several specimens of Yunx torquilla. 



No. 52. For notices of this extremely variable species, vide J. A. 



S. B. xi. 908, and xii. 241 and 944, where also are described several 



species of Centropus. I may remark that I have received Cuculus 



Sonnerati from Singapore as well as from Southern India *. Eudy- 



* Is not C. Sonnerati the young of some other species? — II. E. S. 



