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H a b. Formosa. 



Eight specimens, collected by Swiuhoe. 



Genus Otocompsa Cabanis. 



Type: Otocompsa emeria (L). 



General aspect brown , lower surface much lighter , head 

 strongly crested, the lengthened feathers restricted to fore- 

 head and centre of crown , on which latter they are very 

 long, sword-shaped (not lanceolate) and slightly bent 

 downward. A considerably long tuft of crimson-red , silky 

 feathers below the eye, partly covering the pure white 

 cheeks, under tail-coverts crimson. Tarsus longer than 

 culmen , wing longer than tail. — Two species known. 



Range. Indian Peninsula and Himalaya, extending 

 through Assam to Cochin China and Tenasserim , Nico- 

 bars. 



Key to the species. 



a. Tail-feathers tipped with white emeria, 



b. Tail-feathers not tipped with white fuscicaudata. 



1. Otocompsa emeria '). 



Lanius emeria L. Syst. Nat. I, p. 137 (1766). 

 Lanius Jocosus L. Op. cit. p. 138. 

 Muscicapa emeria L. Op. cit. p. 826. 

 Otocompsa jocosa Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 157 (1881). 

 Otocompsa emeria Hume, N. & E. p. 287; Oates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 

 276 (1889). 

 H a b. South from the Himalayas throughout Bengal , 



i) Linné (Syst. Nat.) mentions this bird under three different n&vats: Lanius 

 emeria, based upon Brisson's Lanius bengalensis , from Bengal, further Lanius 

 jocosus, based upon Brisson's Meriila sinensis cristata minor, from China, and 

 Muscicapa emeria, based upon Albin's «Bengal Redstart"', from Bengal. All 

 three names belonging to either birds from Bengal or China, where only the 

 species with a white-tipped tail is found, they must be considered synonyms, 

 and the first of them, Lanius emeria, bestowed upon this species. 



The second species of this genus, which has the tail not tipped with white, 

 is neither found in Bengal nor in China, and therefore not entitled to bear 

 any of the names given by Linné. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. XVII. 



