23. DENDEOCYCNA. 157 



p. 188 (Ceylon) ; Seehh. Ibis, 1887, p. 181 (Loo-choo Isl.) ; Stejn. 



Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 397 (Loo-choo I.) (1887) ; id. Zeitschr. 



ges. Orn. 1887, p. 169 ; Sti/an, Ibis, 1889, p. 446 (Shanghai) ; 



Everett, Journ. Str. Br. It. As. Soc. 1889, p. 19:^ ; Huine, Nests 



^ Eggs {Oates' ed.), iii. p. 284 (1890) ; Seebh. Birds Jap. Emp. 



p. 240 (1890) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 229 (1891) ; Sharpe 



Cat. Osteol. Specim. Coll. Surg. iii. p. 297 (1891) ; Rickett, Ibis, 



1894, p. 22.J (China). 

 Dendrocyg-na arcuata, var. minor, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 649, 



n. 63^1 (1856). 

 Dendrocycna arcuata, part., Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 510 (India) • 



Rchnw. Vog. der zool. Giirt. p. 59 (1882). ' 



Dendrocycna javanica, Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 388 (1882) • 



Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 301 (1886) ; Salvad. El. Ucc. Ital. p. 256 



(1887) : id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv. p. 616 (Burmah) (1887) ; 



Gigl. Icon. Avif. Ital. pt.xxxiv. pi. 346 (1887) ; Gigl. Prima Resoc 



Avif. Ital. pt. 1, p. 465 (1889), pt. 2, p. 26 (1890). 



Adult. Forehead, crown, and occiput brown, more rufous on the 

 forehead ; sides of tho head and nock pale greyish fulvous, darker 

 on the hind-neck ; chin and throat whitish ; back and scapulars 

 dark brown, each feather broadly edged with rufous ; rump black ; 

 upper tail-coverts chestnut; breast yellowish ochreous, shading 

 gradually into the light chestnut of tho lower plumage ; feathers of 

 the flanks fulvous-brown, with white-fulvous streaks along the 

 middle ; axillaries brown-black ; under tail-coverts whitish fulvous ; 

 lesser and median upper wing-coverts chestnut, greater coverts and 

 quills ashy black, the quills darker ; tail brown : " bill, legs, and 

 feet brownish blue, the nail of the bill nearly black ; iris brown ; 

 eyelids bright yellow ; claws bluish horn-colour" (Oates). Total 

 length about 16 inches, wing 7-5, tail 2-3, culmen 1-9, tarsus 1-7. 



Female. Similar. 



Bab. India, Ceylon, Indo-Burmese countries, Siam, Cochiuchina, 

 China, Loo-choo Islands, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and 

 Java *. 



a. Juv. St. India (Blgtk). India Museum [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. India. Purchased. 



c. 2 ad. sk. E. Narra, Sindh, July (E. Hume Coll. 



A. Butler). 



d. Ad. sk. Godra, Pauch Mehals, Sept. Hume Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Jhansee, Sept. Hume Coll. 

 /, (J, h. Ad. et juv. Etawah, Aug. Hume Coll. 



sk. 

 i-w. Ad. etjuv.sk. Oudh. Capt. Stackhou.se 



Pinwill [P.]. 

 0. Imm. sk. Oudh, Dec. Hume CoU. 



i'jS'.r. c? ad. et ad. Saugor, Central Provinces, Hume CoU. 



sk. Aug. to Dec. 



* The last specimen in the list below, by mistake and with a query is 

 labcUod as from the interior of Africa {Major Denham). It is important to 

 notice that the only species of Denclroci/cna recorded as met with during the 

 journey of Denham and C'lapperton is D. viduata. 



