1 7. ri.ATYLOrilFS. -^1 1 



Yoking. Like the female, but duller in tiut ; the quills nearly 

 uniform, only slightly blackish at the tips, and not margined with 

 white. (Von IL'iif/lin.) 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. St. White Nile. IM. Verreaux. 



17. PLATYLOPHUS. ^^p^ 



Platylophus, Sxoains. in Faun. Bor.-Am. p. 482 (1831). P. galericulatus. 

 Lophocitta, Grmj; List Gen. B. p. 50 (1841) P. galericulatus. 



Range. Malayan peninsula, from Province Wellesley southwards ; 

 Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo. 



'Key to the Sjyecies, 



a. Jet-bla<?k all o\er, the mantle and lower parts in- 



cluded f/alericii!atus, p. 317. 



b. Slaty black, the back inclining to olive-brown ; 



breast and abdomen slaty grev ardesiaeus, p. 318. 



c. Rufous brown in colour, both above and below . . coronatus, p. 318. 



1 . Platylophus galericulatus. 



Le Geai noir a collier blanc, Leva ill. Ois. de Paradis, i. p. 124, pi. 42. 

 Garrulus galericidatus, Cuvier, Regne An. 1817, vol. i. p. 399; Schl. 



Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 66. 

 Lanius scapulatus, Licht. Verz. Dnubl. p. 49. 

 Pica galericulata, Waffler, Si/sf. Av. Pica, sp. 22. 

 Vanga cristata, Griffith, An. Kingd. Birds, pi. to p. 486. 

 Platvlophus galericulatus, Swcmis. in Fniin. Bor.-Am. Birds, p. 482; 



Horsf. i- Moore, Cat. B. ii. p. 574 (excl. svn.) ; Cab. J.f. 0. 1866, 



p. 309 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 2. 

 Lophocitta galericulata, Grati, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 50 ; id. Gen. 



B. ii. p. 305, pi. 74. fig. .5 ; Bp. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 79 ; id. Consp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 374 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 218. 

 Lophocitta scapulata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 9. 



Aclnlt. General colour above and below black, the wings some- 

 what browner ; the tail black, with wavy cross markings under 

 certain lights ; head with an enormous crest, nearlj- three inches 

 long : above and below the hinder part of the eye a small white 

 spot ; on each side of the neck a broad white patch, forming a demi- 

 coUar, interrupted by the black of the neck ; under wing-coverts 

 black, some of the feathers margined with white ; bill and legs black. 

 Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 5-G, tail 5-3, tarsus 1-3. 



Hab. Java. 

 a. Ad. sk. West Java, 1863. A. R. AVallace, Esq. [C] 



2. Platylophus ardesiaeus. 



Lophocitta galericulata, B/i/th, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 571 (nee Cuv.) ; id. 

 Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 94 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 446 ; Stolicska, 

 J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 325; Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 175. 



