on Dr. Jerdon's ' Birds of India.' 359 



corvina, which is wholly unknown in those parts. M. viridis, 

 Schlegclj of Java, is also quite distinct from M. viridis {vera) 

 of Southern India, and is probably the true M. lineata {Capita 

 lineatus, Vieillot), as Prof. Schlegel himself suggests. 



197. Xantholvema indica. 



To this should be referred Sir R. H. Schomburgk's Megalama 

 philippensis, from Siam (Ibis, 1864, p. 258; videl^. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 151). 



199. CucuLUS CANORUS. C. indicus, Cabanis. 



Mr. Wallace has a specimen from Eastern Timor, which is 

 undistinguishable from the common European bird"^. 



200. CucuLUS STRiATUS, Drapiezfj Gould, B. Austr. iv. 

 pi. 84; "C. lineatus, Lesson," Pucheran, Rev. Zool. 1853, 

 p. 70; C. himalayanus, Vigors {nee Gould, Cent. Him. B.) ; 

 C. canoroides, Miiller ; C. canorinus, Cabanis ; C. saturatus, 

 Hodgson; C. optatus, Gould; C. horsfieldi, Moore; and pro- 

 bably C. libanoticus, Tristram (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 432). Prof. 

 Schlegel adds C. teleophonus, Heine, J. f. 0. 1863, p. 352 (from 

 Japan), and C. swinhoii, Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. 



* Mr. Swiuhoe indicates a race as constituting his " second series " of 

 Cuculus canorus (?), " of similar form, with fulvescent under parts, banded 

 with much broader bars more widely set, with the axillaries nearly barless. 

 One has a somewhat large bill, and two are almost entirely blackish-brown 

 in the parts which should be grey." (One specimen fi-om Tientsin, and 

 four from Amo}'. P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 2(55.) Also, recently, a small species 

 which he designates C. Tcelungensis (Ibis, 1865, p. 107). 



In page 323 of Dr. Jerdon's first volume the following words are 

 printed twice over: — "its familiar note until it was separated from female." 

 Erase them where they appear first. 



t I follow Prof. Schlegel in adopting the name striatus, Drapiez, for 

 this species, although, comjjaring specimens befoi'e me of this and of C. 

 micropterus, the latter certainly accord better with the description by M. 

 Drapiez : — " Taille, douze pouces. Parties superieures d'un brun cendre, 

 bleuatre ; remiges brunes, frangees de blanchatre, les deux premieres 

 dentelees de roussatre ; rectrices peu etagees [if we except the outermost 

 pair, this holds good in C. micropterus, less so in the other]. * * * jjgg 

 noir, roussatre en dessous a sa base." Both species occur in Java. The 

 size would indicate C. micropterus rather than C. qffinis, to which latter 

 C. striatus is assigned by Dr. Jerdon. 



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