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genus Ptiloskelos and species P. amherstii (J. A. S. B. 1859, 

 p. 448), which Mr. Bly th, at the time, correctly identified with 

 Huhua orientalis ]wy. [t. c. p. 411, note). Ketupa ceylonensis, 

 with the title of Strix dumdicola, Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1833), 

 admitted as a synonym, and K. javanensis, are both figured, 

 the latter from a Tenasserim adult male. A plate is devoted 

 to Scops pennatus under the title of Ephialtes scops, and an- 

 other to the young bird ; and Scops simia, from Tirhoot, is 

 described and figured as a distinct species. Athene radiata*, 

 Tickell, is stated to be '^met with thi-oughout the forest 

 portion and lower hills of Arakan, Burma, and Tenasserim ;" 

 and of Glaucidium brodei Colonel Tickell remarks that while 

 Darjeeling and Tenasserim birds do not differ in plumage, 

 " nevertheless it is remarkable that the notes of the bird in 

 these two countries differ considerably." 



Volume iii. treats on the Zygodactyli, and contains forty- 

 six plates. Of these, five belong to the Parrots, twenty-one 

 to the Woodpeckers, including Sasia, Vivia, and Yunx, five 

 to the Barbets, and fifteen to the Cuckoos. 



Palceornisjavanicus [melanorhynchus) ; figured from a cage- 

 bird, is represented with a red t^, instead of yellow, wing-patch, 

 the part being described of an Indian-yellow colour. The 

 male and female are stated to have the upper mandible red, 

 the under black, but the young to have the bill black, " which 

 colour the female retains till full maturity." 



Picus atratus, Blyth, ^ $ (Plate IX.), is figured; and the 

 male is for the first time described. But bath description and 

 figure of the male are taken from an immature example, the 

 scarlet on the head only reaching the vertex, whereas in the 

 adult this colour covers the crown and occiput as well. The 

 fulvous grey colouring of the frontal plumes of the female is 

 somewhat exaggerated in hue and extent. P. atratus is not 

 unlike P. macm, but is distinguished by having the uropygium 



* Tiekell's specific denomination of radiata (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 572) 

 for this Owl was, by misprint, converted into that of undulata by Blyth 

 (J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 457). 



t it is so described by .Terdon (B. Ind. i. no. 152). 



