14 Mr. Hly til's Coininculunj 



IS7. Rii()i)oi'iiii,A MKi.ANOMoucAj Jcrdon ; Gould, B. As. 

 pt. xviii. |)l. 



This ^(;tiiis seems to be- identical with Oreicula, 13onap. 

 (Cornpli'H |{,(!tidns, 1854, j). fj, iriisprintcd Orcoica, p. 10*), at 

 Iciist as cxeiiij)lific(l hy (). inrbnioh'iK'a and (). laclaosa, Horiap., 

 of Timor. In this ease it is necessary to n^name the Indian 

 speei(!s, whieh I here desi<^iiate Okkicola .mokooni. In his ' Ap- 

 [XMidix ' (p. H72), Dr. .lerdoii relers Prnlincohi. farrm (no. 480) 

 to the same f^enus; hut I would decidedly retain it as a some- 

 what aberrant J'r'aliiicola '[. 



■'188 and 18!). Saxicola r,KU(:iiu,()i diis, fincrin ; Dromolam 

 opislhuleucu (Strickl.), (iould, W. As. pt. xxii. pi., atid S. imcata, 

 dould, li. As. pt. xvii. pi. 



T rcf^ard both of these as true HdiicoLc, how(;vcr much the 

 fornu'r may resemble Drumolaia leucura in coloration. j\lr. 

 Gould figures brown fenudes to botli of these birds ; but that ot 

 aV. opisiholeuca more (^specially, has so much the appearance 

 of *S'. imnnlke that it might well be occasionally mistaken for 

 (Ik; Hritish species. Hence I suspect (hat Indian specirruTis 



* Orcincd (potiuH Orcwoa), tioiild, is a wcU-liiiowii AiiHtralian form of 

 TitnioiiHc). 



t Mr. WalliuM", I*. /. S. lM(;.",, p. 'iHrt^ cmiincnitcs foiu' Hp(H;i(^Hof Snxicoki 

 — thv(u( of wliieli lui iiHwigMiM to 'I'inior, and ori(^ to lioiribok. Now tho true 

 Siuicola! (or Wlicatoars) aro, in India,, pcu^uiiar lo the North-west l*ro- 

 vincoH, and are wholly foroif^n to tlio Indo-Cliiinoso and Malayan countries. 

 I wa.s therefore curioiiH to exaniiiui Mr. WallacH^'s Hpeciniens, and found 

 that his Sd.n'rold (hutiHorio, from lionilK)k, is allied to Xiinlliopi/f/in, nol)iM ; 

 wliile *S'. pi/rrhi»i(>/.(i, IMiillcr (as identilied })y Mr. Wallace), of Timor, is 

 a.liiii in form to tlui last, and also to Hij)hi(i, llodf^son, though peculiar in 

 its coldnilion. N(Mth(!r of these range properly with tho Orcimlfc. Of 

 the hitter, i>. iHcldiiolciiva, Honap., is clearly (J^'riiinthe mclanolettca, yiv\\\iti, 

 from Timor, as tiotieed by J)r. I'ucheran (Arch, du Museum, vii. p. 847). 

 It cannot, therefore, hr. identical with McUcophila ]dr(iti(, Clould, B. Austr. 

 iv. pi. 'in (Lir/niofni/hti picold, Cuh. Mus. Ilein. i. p. IK!), as Dr. Pucheran 

 Hugi,'-estM. (]'!. pyrrhonotd, Vieillot, from Tiuu)r is idi-ntilicd by the same 

 naturalist with Pm/inco/ti c(i/>ytit(i ^, also from Timor and in Mr. Wal- 

 lace's collection from tluit island. Tlie fact that O. jcrdoni {RhoihpJiila 

 mdanohuca, .Terdon) so long eontiinu^d unobserved in Bengal may indi- 

 cate that other species yet remain to be discovered in the intervening 

 countries between Bengal and Timor. 



