438 BIIIDS OF INDIA. 



It is doubtful, however, if it be the same as the Malay race to 

 which Bljth and Mooie give, after Latham, the name of Mala- 

 baricus (now Malayends, Blyth), which is apparently still smaller, 

 and with the crest very little developed. This Malay race should 

 bear Temminck's name setifer, misprinted retifer. A race from 

 the Andamans is mentioned by Blyth, as having a longer crest 

 than the Malay bird, and being somewhat larger ; and the Ceylon 

 bird has also the crest more developed; but no specimens from 

 Malabar being in the Museum at Calcutta, it is impossible to 

 decide at present whether these races differ or not from the 

 Malabar one. 



This species or race is found in all jungles of the west coast, 

 from Travancore up to Goa, especially in the Wynaad, and 

 other elevated districts, but it also wanders now and then into gar- 

 dens from the jungles, and I have seen it close to Cannanore. I 

 never saw a specimen from the west of India, that had the frontal 

 crest nearly so long as those from the same latitude, or nearly 

 BO, in the Eastern GhS.t8. It does not differ in its habits from 

 the last. 



Mr. Blyth tells me that £!. Rangoonensis of Gould, which he 

 formerly considered the same as the crestless race from Malayana, 

 is a distinct species, not from Burmah, but from the Philippines. 

 Other species recorded are E. hrachypliorus^ Temm., apud Bona- 

 parte, from Borneo, crestless ; and E. formosus, Cabanis, from 

 Banka. 



Gen. CiiiBiA, Hodgs. 



Syn. Cometes, Hodgs. Criniger, Tickell. 



Char. Bill lengthened, compressed, curved both on the culmen 



and commissure, more slender than in others of the family, slightly 

 hooked at the tip, and obsoletely notched ; rictal bristles short 

 and feeble ; nostrils denuded ; a crest of hairs arising from the 

 forehead, and falling back over neck ; tail forked ; outer tail-feathers 

 slightly lengthened, turned up into a sort of scoop ; plumage of 

 the head and neck highly lanceolate, especially on the sides of 

 the neck. 



