ORTOLID^. 29 



Ilab. The whole of India, exceptino- the North-western States 

 (Sind &c.). 



115. Sternum and shoiilder-oirdle, wanting left coracoid and 

 scapula. S. S. 1883. From Nei)al. 



Presented by D. II. Hodgson, Es(j. 



Genus DICRANOSTREPTUS. 



Eeichenbach, Syst. Av. pi. Ixxxviii. fig. 12 (1850). 



Dicranostreptus megarhynchus. 



Edolias megarhynchus^ Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. dc I'Astrol., Zool. 



i. p. 184, pi. vi. (1830). 

 Dicranostre'ptus megarhynchus (Q. & G.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. ill. p. 256 (1877). 



The Long-tailed Drongo. 



Hah. New Ireland. 



116. Sternum and shoulder-girdle, wanting right scapula. Fi'om 

 New Ireland {J. Brazier). S. S. 2439. 



Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.R.S. 



Family ORIOLID^*. 



Genus ORIOLUS. 

 Linnajus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 160 (1766). 



Oriolus melanocephalus. 



Oriolns melanocephalus, Linnoeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 160 (1766) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 215 (1877) ; Gates, Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 506 (1889). 



The Indian Black-headed Oriole. 



Hah. Indian peninsula and Burmese countries. 



* A figui'o of the skeleton of Oriolus formosus is given by Dr. Meyer 

 (Abbildungcn cler Yiigel-Skeletten, ph xxv.). 



