GLOBICEPIIALUS INDICUS. 



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Table of measurements — Coutiuueil. 



o 



12098 

 143G1 

 12097 

 12100 

 20050 

 20057 

 2999 



Cm. 

 15.6 



15. 1 

 18.4 

 13.8 

 11.5 

 17.0 



Cm. 

 18.8 



19.2 

 17.2 

 13.5 

 U.0 

 15.5 



9— 9 



1 1— n 



12—12 



' Least. 



f Posterior to the notch. 



I A.rtificially .set ('?). 



We pass now from the species which have a whitish baud along the 



belly to those which are entirely black. In three instances {G. scam- 



moiii Cope, indicus Blytb, and hrachypterus Cope) it has been shown that 



individuals entirely black had the iutermaxilliP, expanded distally so as 



to cover the anterior half of the beak. Two other nominal species (G. 



macrorhynclius Gray and G. (juadalonpensis Gray) are known only from 



skull.s, bat as these have the premaxilhe expanded we may presume 



that the individuals from which they were derived were also entirely 



black. 



GLOBICEPHALUS INDICUS BIytli. 



Globicepliahis indicus, Blyth, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxi, p. 358. (Fide Blytb); 

 Joiiru. Asiat. Soc. Beugal, xxviii, 1859, p. 490. 



This species is only known to me from the account in Vol. xxviii of 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The color is stated to be 

 "uniform leaden-black, slightly paler underneath." The intermaxilla? 

 are expanded. The dorsal and lumbar vertebrae taken together number 

 one more than is usual in G. brachypterns and one less than in G. melas, 

 but this is a character of no value. 



The measurements of the exterior are few in number and do not in- 

 dicate specific distinctness. 



Until the type-skeletons in the Calcutta Museum have been more 

 fully described it will be impossible to determine the validity of this 

 species. 



