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and in having tlie whole back and \ving-cover3, as well as the cro\vn, 

 rump and tail, rufous, with a brilliant lilac tint. The dark blue spot 

 on the front and ears is much less marked than in C. tridactyla. 

 Lower parts orange-yellow ; chin -n'hite. This bird was supposed 

 by Palias, in bis ' Spicilegia Zoologica,' part 6, p. 13, to be the female 

 of C. tridactyla. It is tigured by Messrs. Jardine and Selby in the 

 ' Illustrations of Zoology.' ser. 1. jil. 55. f. 2. as C. tridactyla. Mr. 

 Jerdon, in his ' Illustrations of Indiau Zoology,' refers this bird to 

 Alcedo madagascariensis, Lin. ; but as that bird is distinctly described 

 by the accurate Brisson as having four toes, it mušt be a true Alcedo, 

 and I have therefore given a new specific name to the present bird. 



Prionochilus thoracicus, (Tem.), PI. Col. 600. f. 1. — Temminck's 

 specimens were from Borneo, an island ^vhich has but few species in 

 common with the peninsula of Malacca. This is closely allied to 

 P. percussiis, -vvhich I adopted as the type of my genus Prionochilus. 

 This genus is very near to Dicteum, and has the stoutest and shortest 

 beak of all the Kectariniida;. Many systeniatists would place it near 

 Pipra or Pardalotus, but the finely serrated mandibles point out its 

 true affinities. 



DiccEum chrysorrhmmn, Tem. PI. Col. 478. — Judging from the 

 similarity of plumage in the young of Prionochilus percussus, I sus- 

 pect that this bird is either the female or young of some other species 

 of Dicaum. 



Phyllornis moluccensis (Gray), Zool. Misc. — This is the P. mala- 

 baricus of Tem. PI. Col. 512. f. 2. and of Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1843, p. 957, but is not the true nialabaricus of Sonnerat and Sco- 

 poli, which has been rediscovered in South India b)' Mr. Jerdon, and 

 is a larger bird, with the head green and the forehead orange. The 

 lašt is the P. ccesmarhynchis of Tickell. In P. moluccensis the whole 

 top and sides of the head are a clear yellovv, surrounding the black 

 of the chin and throat, and passing into golden )'^elIow on the hind 

 neck. A small spot on each side of the maxilla indigo-blue. Ręst 

 of body green ; lesser wing-covers azure, primaries and lateral rec- 

 trices extemally greenish blue. P. auri/rons of Nepal difFers from 

 both the above in the chin being blue, &c. 



Parus flavocristatus, Lafr. (Melanochlora sumatrana, hess. ; Cratai- 

 onyx ater, a.nd įlavus, Eyton ; Parus stiltaneus, Hodgs.) — One of the 

 Malacca specimens is fully as large and as long-crested as Mr. Hodg- 

 son's Nepal ones. This is a perfectly typical Parus, and is the 

 largest species which I know CKcejit the so-called Oreoica cristata of 

 Australia, ■vvhich I also consider a true Parus. 



Pitta cyamira, Gm. {M. affinis, Horsf.) — An immature specimen ; 

 exhibits plain blue feathers in various parts of the abdomen, which 

 appear to be suj)planting the barred black and rufous feathers com- 

 monly seen in this species. 



Turdus modestus, Eyton. — One of the specimens before me, pro- 

 bably a fully adult, has the \vhole throat cinereous brown, and only 

 the tip of the chin \vhitc. 



