504 PROCEEBtNGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



Family P1TTID7R. 



PITTA MOLUCCENSIS (P. L. S. Miiller). 



T»7v/h.s- inuluccensis Mullek, Natiirsyst., SuppL, 1776, p. 144 ("molaccisclien 

 Inseln"). 

 A single adult female from Pulo Tuangku. Length, 200; wing, 116; i 

 tarsus, 40; bill, from gape, 29 mm. Compared with a series of fresh;' 

 specimens' from the Malay Peninsula, this bird is rather small, with 

 more yellowish in the green of the upper parts; the white patch cm, 

 the primaries is much restricted, the black tips of the feathers occu- 't 

 pying more space than in any of our other specimens. 

 ' ' Common. Feet pale purplish fleshy." 



Family MOTACILLID^. 



Genus DENDRONANTHUS Blyth. 



Dendronnnthus Blyth, Ann. and ]\Iag. ^'at. Hist., 1844, p. 116. 



Type, Motacilla indica Gmeiin. 



DENDRONANTHUS INDICUS (Gmeiin). 



[Moiadlla'] indica Gmelin, Syst. Nat.,^ I, Pt. 2, 1788, p. 9G2 (Sonnerat's "La 

 bergeronnette grise des Indes" ). 



Two specimens, one from Simalur, the other from Loh Sidoh Bay. 

 It was "common" at the first-named locality, and was noted also on 

 l*ulo Bangkaru. 



This bird has received several generic names, the earliest of which 

 appears to be Bendronxmtlms Blyth (1844). The next is Nemorkola 

 "Blyth,"« which may clash with Nemoricola of Hodgson, for a species 

 of snipe. ^' LivionidTonius^ of Gould, commonly used for the species, 

 dates from 1862, and Fitzinger's Mmorivaga was proposed about th(^ 

 same time. BvdytantJvus, of David,^ is still later. 



MOTACILLA MELANOPE Pallas. 



Motacilla melanope Pallas, Reise Russischen Reichs, ITT, 1776, p. 696 ("Ti 

 Dauuria circa ripas glareosas rarius occurrit"). 

 An adult male, from Simalur. where "common." 



BUDYTES FLAVUS LEUCOSTRIATUS (Homeyer). 

 Budytea leucoMriaim Homeyer, Jouvn. fiir Orn., 1878, ]i. 128 (Baical region). 

 One specimen, an adult male, from Simahir. •"Common." 



«Jerdon, Madras Journ., SIIII, p. 132, dated 1844, but not published befor 

 August, 1845. 



fc Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Yl, 1837, p. 491. Hodgson writes: "I have set it dowi 

 in my notebook as the type of a new genus or subgenus, under the style of Ncmon 

 cola Nipalemiif, but I forbear, for the present, from so naming it." Gray used thi 

 name in 1842 (Appendix to List Genera Birds, 1842, p. 14). 



^Nouv. Arch, du Mus., Ill (Bull.), 1867, p. 33. 



