340 Lord Walden's Sketch 



spicuously large, I strongly suspect that Javan examples fur- 

 nished Le Vaillant with the subject of his " Coucou k gros bee/' 

 plate 214, in which case it would stand as E. crassirostris 

 (Steph.). 



3. EuDYNAMis MiNDANENsis (L.), exBriss. iv. p. 130, no. 12, 

 " Ins. Mindanao,^' $ adult., vel S adolesc. 



C. variegatus, Scop., PI. & Faun. Insub. ii. p. 89, no. 2 (1786), 

 ex Sonn., Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 120, t. 78, " Antigua," $ vel 

 6 adolesc. 



C. panayanus, Gm. ex Sonn., /. c. 



C. maculatus, Gm. ex Buff. (Month.), Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 

 p. 378 ; PI. Enl. 764 : " China," ? vel 6 adolesc. 



C. maculatus, Bodd. ex Buff. PI. Enl. 764 (1783). 



C. orientalis, L., var. /S, Gm. ex Buff. (Month.) /. c. p. 383, 

 no. 2, Mindanao, (J adult. 



E. chinensis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 52, note, " Can- 

 ton," $ d. 



E. orientalis (L.), Swinh., Ibis, 1861, p. 46. 



Hab. China. Ins. Philipp. 



These titles are thrown together as synonyms of the Lin- 

 nsean species, on the presumption, first, that the Chinese and 

 Philippine species are one and the same, and, secondly, that 

 they specifically differ from E. honorata (L.). Upon this last 

 point I am not quite determined ; but, judging from BufFon's 

 764th plate and Montbeillard's and Sonnerat^s description, I 

 believe them to be distinct. I have failed in seeing specimens 

 of the female or young male. An adult Philippine male exists 

 in Mr. Gould^s collection, which possesses a stout bill, stouter 

 than in E. malayana, from Tcnasserim, and deeper than in E. 

 honorata. Should it prove a distinct form, we shall have the 

 following not improbable distribution of the three species : — 

 E. honorata to the west, E. mindanensis to the east of the hill- 

 ranges which descend from Assam southward through the Malay 

 Peninsula ; and E. malayana originating in the central Himalaya, 

 inhabiting the slopes of the descending range, and extending at 

 least all over Sumatra. 



4. EuDYNAMis CYANOCEPHALA (Lath.), lud. Om. Supp. 



