104 Viscount Walden and Mr. Layard on 



species of bald Giakles from the Philippines under his title of 

 Le Goulin, One, brought from the Phihppines by Sonnerat, is 

 identical with Brisson's Merula calva ; the other, which is the 

 species figured in the ' Planches Enluminees/ no. 200, has never 

 since been recognized. This last is stated by Montbeillard to 

 be smaller, to have the under plumage yellowish brown, and the 

 feet, legs, and the anterior portion of the bill, T/ellow. The figure 

 also (PI. Enl. 200) certainly represents a bird widely differing 

 from Gracula calva auct. Montbeillard [l. c.) further remarks 

 that the bald-headed bird brought from the Philippines by Son- 

 uerat, although much resembling the bird figured, yet differs in 

 its size and its plumage. The smaller bird (PI. Enl. 200), he 

 surmises, may be the young. Kittlitz [I.e.) states that the sexes 

 are alike in plumage, but the female is smaller. No title has 

 been founded on PI. Enl. 200. Nor has Cuvier anywhere pub- 

 lished the name griseus usually attributed to him. Mr. G. R. 

 Gray (/. c.) has superseded the appellation calvus, Gm., by that 

 of tricolor, Miiller, and quotes PI. Enl. 200. There seems, how- 

 ever, to be no authority for discarding the time-honoured name 

 of calvus, even if it had only originated with Gmelin and not 

 with Linnceus. Miiller's Corvus tricolor was founded on PI. Enl. 

 521, = Curvus {Gj/jnnocephalus) calvus, Gm., not Gracula calva, 

 Gm. Miiller has not bestowed any name on the bird figured in 

 PI. Enl. 200, nor on Merula calva, Brisson. 



Phapitreron LEUCOTis (Temm.) : PI. Col. 189. 

 " $ , iris brown ; bill black ; feet coral ; stomach, small chilies. 

 Island of Negros." 



Ianth(ENas grtseogularis, sp. nov. (Plate VI.) 

 Upper surface of head from bill to nape grey, brilliantly 

 tinted with light purple. Chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, and throat 

 pale grey, faintly tinged on sides of head with vinous. Nape 

 and neck green, but changing in some lights to ashy tinted with 

 bright purple. Breast beautiful, uniform, bright purple, chan- 

 ging in some lights to greenish ashy, as in shot silk. Abdomen, 

 flanks, thigh-coverts, ventral region and under tail-coverts dark 

 ashy, many of the feathers being edged with the purple colour of 

 the breast. Back and uropygium ashy brown shot with the 



