176 Viscount Walden on Dr. Stoliczka's 



79. Calornis cantor (Gm.). 



Without having to decide the question whether the Philip- 

 pine and Malaccan Calornis are the same species, we must sup- 

 press Gmehn^s title cantor, Scopoli's name panayensis (founded, 

 equally with Gmelin's, on Sounerat's 73rd plate) having pre- 

 cedence. Turdus chaUjbeus is Horsfield's title for the Javan 

 Calornis; Turdus insidiator that of Raffles for the Suraatran. 

 The individual described by Dr. Stoliczka seems to be a young 

 bird, and in that phase of plumage which misled Dr. Horsfield 

 into describing the young Javan bird as distinct from C. chaly- 

 beus, under the name T. strigatus. 



80. EuLABES JAVANENSis (Osbeck) . 



It is clear from the remarks made under this title that the 

 learned Doctor has never had the Malaccan E. javanensis in 

 his hands. Two species of Eulabes inhabit the Malayan penin- 

 sula : — one allied to, if not even identical with, E. intermedia, 

 A. Hay, ex Nipaul and Tenasserim ; and a second, closely related 

 to E. javanensis, ex Java. The distinctness of these two species 

 has never until now been questioned by any author. Professor 

 Schlegel, an author who certainly does not admit the validity 

 of a species off hand, has not only acknowledged the specific 

 distinctness of E. intermedia, but has figured the bill, head, and 

 lappets of E. javanensis and E. intermedia in the same Plate 

 (Neder. Tijdsch. Dierk. i. p. 1), to exhibit the contrast. 



E. intermedia was described by its author from Indian exam- 

 ples. At the time he was not aware that the same or a very closely 

 allied form occurred in the Malayan peninsula. The title was 

 chosen to denote the intermediate position E. intermedia occupied 

 between the Cingalese and South-Indian E. religiosa (Linn.) and 

 the Malaccan form E. javanensis (Osbeck). A comparison I have 

 been able, recently, and for the first time, to make between the 

 large Malaccan Eulabes and a Javan example of true E. java- 

 nensis (Osbeck) leads me to question the identity of even these 

 two birds. Dr. Jerdon is perfectly correct in the dimensions 

 he gives of the altitude of the bill of E. javanensis, ex Malacca. 

 Its shortness, together with its great height, at once distin- 

 guishes this species from E. intermedia. 



