MS. ''Illustrations of Indian Ornitholoyy." 355 



being sent to Blyth at Calcutta, that gentleman (J. A. S. B. 

 xxviii. p. 413) deseribed it with the title of Sibia melanoleuca, 

 Tickell. In the following uumbei' of the journal [l. c. no. 5. 

 p. 4.51) Colonel Tickell described the bird again, calling it 

 Sibia picata ; and under this title it is described and figured ; 

 and the plate is one of the most valuable in his work. 



The Nightjars, Trogons, Broadbills, Swallows, Swifts, Bee- 

 eaters, Rollers, Kingfishers, and Hornbills, under the general 

 title FissiROSTRES, form the svibjeets of volume vii., and are 

 represented on fifty-three plates. The first illustrates a species 

 of Batrachostomus, obtained near Tongu-ngoo, Burma, and 

 identified by Colonel Tickell with B. moniliger (Layard). 

 The figure very accurately represents B. offinis, Blyth, in 

 bright chestnut plumage, a species which can hardly be sepa- 

 rated from B. moniliger. 



Caprimulgiis nsiaticus is beautifully and most artistically 

 figured under the title of C. mahrattensis, with which totally 

 distinct Nightjar Colonel Tickell confounds the commoner 

 species. 



From examples of male and female obtained in Bora- 

 bhoom, near the northern limits of its range, Harpactes fas- 

 ciatus is well delineated, and on the succeeding plate the 

 Javan Trogon, H. orescius, from specimens obtained in Te- 

 nasserim. 



Tenasserim is the radiating point of the Eunjlamida. All 

 the generic types, one or other of which extend to the Hima- 

 layas, to the Indo-Chinese countries, the Malayan peninsula, 

 and the three great islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, 

 are to be found in that province and Arracan*. Six of these 

 species are figured from examples obtained in Tenasserim 

 by Colonel Tickell, who gives interesting accounts of their 

 habits. 



None of Colonel Tickell's drawings surpass in beauty those 

 of the Swallows ; and while the delineations of all six species 



* E. ochromeJafi may be an excepliou ; but it is included by Mr. Blyth 

 (B. Burma, no. 4o2). The Bornean form of Cymhirhynclnts nuicrurhynchus 

 can hardly be considered a separate species. The Sumatran PsarisonMs 

 psitfacinm may be sufficiently differentiated from P. cMhousia to constitute 

 a distinct species. 



