on Dr. Jcrdon^s ' Birds of India.' 369 



believe that the shghtest difference exists^ having compared 

 numerous specimens froui both localities. The P. flammeus of 

 the Western Himalaya, noticed by Dr. A. L. Adams (P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 182), must surely be either P. speciosus or possibly P. 

 Solaris, though I doubt if the latter be there met with. In the 

 India Museum are fine specimens of P. flammeus from Southern 

 India, and others from Asam illustrative of P. elegans (McClel- 

 land, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 156); but I am quite unable to distin- 

 guish them [cf. J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 279). 



273. Pericrocotus brevirostris. 



I doubt if this bird ever visits " Lower Bengal " as Dr. 

 Jerdon, probably by a slip of the pen, asserts*. 



278. Dicrurus macrocercus. 



Obtained by the late M. Mouhot in Cambogia. 



284. Edolius pabadiseus. 



The races of this bird are most difficult to understand, as 

 they seem to pass into each other, so that E. malabaricus can 

 barely be distinguished. I have before noticed the extraordinary 

 mocking-povvers of the Bhimrdj (Ibis, 1860, p. 99). A good 

 one would be a very attractive object in the Zoological Gardens. 

 For E. rangoonensis (p. 438) read E. viridescens. 



286. Chibia hottentota. 



Obtained in Cambogia by Mouhot. A living example \vas 

 lately in the Zoological Gardens. I never before saw it in con- 

 finement. 



287. Artamus fuscus. 



Specimens from Macao are noticed in the Ornithological 

 Report accompanying the narrative of Commodore Perry's 



* Pericrocotus is one of the genera characteristic of the Indian region. 

 The Malayan species are : P. xanthog aster, Raffles ( $ Ixus flammeus, 

 Teuiminck, PI. Col. 2G3), of the Malayan Peninsula and Sumatra; P. 

 miniatus, Temm. (PI. Col. 156), of Western Java; P. exul, Wallace, of 

 Eastern Java and Lombok ; and P. ardens, Boie ; P. igneus, Blyth, and P. 

 minutus, Strickland (Contrib. Orn. pi. 31), of Malacca and Sumatra. P. 

 flagrans, Boie, of the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, is a 

 riclilv coloured P. peregrinus. P. cinereus of South China and the 

 Philippines has also been received from Pinang, and should therefore 

 inhabit the more eastern Indo-Chinese countries. 



