p. 163. 



102 ON DR. STOLICZKA'S " CONTEIBUTIONS [1871. 



10. PH(EXlCOPn.VES CUEVIROSTRIS (Shaw). 



It has been satisfactorily demonstrated by Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hcin. iv. p. G7) that this title 

 applies to the Javan Malkoha only. The Malaccan, Sumatran, and Bomean form, with round 

 nostrils and red lower mandible, must take the name Ph. eri/thro(/nathus, Hartl. (Verz. Brem. 

 Samml. p. 9-3, 1844), founded on the Sumatran Malkoha, Curulusmelanognafhm, Horsf. ait. Raffles, 

 nee Ilorsf Dr. Stoliczka states that the middle pair of rectrices are sometimes wholly green — an 

 important fact, and which will probably invalidate the right of Ph. oeneicandus, Verr., to separate 

 specific rank. A Labuan example in my possession has the middle pair also entirely green. 



18. Xa>thol^ma ixdica (Lath.). 



1{ Bucco j)hilippensis, Brisson, is really identical with the Indian little Barbct {B. indicus. 

 Lath.), this species must take Statius Miiller's name hannacephala, founded by him on BuflFon's 

 Barhue des Philippines (PI. Enl. 331 *), which came from the Philippines (probably Brisson's 

 type, brought by Poivre), as stated by Buffon (Hist. Nat. vii. p. 102) and also by S. IMiiller. In 

 Messrs. Marshalls' Monograph of the Capitonidce, it is erroneously stated that Miiller's hcemace- 

 phala was founded on examples from Sumatra ; whereas Miiller distinctly says " Er wohnet in 

 Ibis, 1871, den Philippinischen Inseln, Buffon." So far as we know, none of Miiller's titles were founded 

 on specimens. They were mostly given, like Boddaert's, Scopoli's, and Gmelin's, to plates or 

 descriptions in other works. 



19. Megaloeiitxciius hati (Gray). 

 Lesson's generic title, Caloramphns, supersedes that of Eyton, having been published one 



month earlier (Rev. Zool. 1839, May 1st). Dr. Stoliczka has correctly retained the specific name 

 hayi, J. E. Gray, for the Malaccan bird. Most unaccountably, in the Monograph of the 

 Capitonidce, Gmelin's title lathami, erroneously applied by Raffles (Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 284) 

 to the Sumatran Caloramphns, is adopted, and, moreover, as if it were an original title of Sir 

 Stamford's ; for the date 1822 is added. Sir Stamford enumerated the species in his List of 

 Sumatran Birds under the title of Bucco lathami, Gm. It is almost supci-fluous to remark that 

 Latham's Buff-faced Barbet (Synop. i. p. 504, pi. 32), on which Gmeliu founded his B. lathami, 

 cannot possibly refer to C. hayi. It is a dark olive-green bird, with the forehead, chin, sides of 

 the head, and round the eyes dull buff colour, yellow in the plate. Bill beset ivith bristles at the 

 base. No plausible identification of Latham's bird has as yet been made. 



20. TiGA " KUPA," Raffl. 

 It is difficult to perfectly understand the meaning Raffles intended to convey in the last 



member of the sentence, "Tukki besar, or T. riifa." Nor does Vigors in the "Memoir" assist 

 us ; for he does not repeat the words — from which it may, however, be inferred that Mgors did 

 not consider that Sir Stamford intended to bestow a new specific name on Horsficld's species. 

 Malherbc quotes the passage " ou Tukki rufa, Raffl.," thus regarding the letter T. as the initial 



• Given in the Monograph of the Cupilonida^ as no. 871, which represents M. virens (Bodd.). It is to bo hoped that 

 the slips in sj-nonymy, and the omission of many important references, which somewhat detract from the scientific value of 

 this otherwise beautiful work, will be repaired in an appendix. 



