104 ON DE. STOLICZKA'S "CONTRIBUTIONS [1871. 



29. Meigltptes margixatus (Reinw.). 



Latham's description of his P. pectoralis certainly does not agree sufficiently with P. brunneus, 

 Eyton, to warrant the conclusion of Mr. Blyth and of Malherbe. Reinwardt's title cannot stand, 

 as it was not published until after Eyton's and Lesson's. The oldest available title, therefore, 

 seems to be tuHi, Less. (Rev. Zool. 1839, June 1st, p. 167, ex Sumatra), which is senior to 

 Eyton's bnoinem by about three weeks. P. luridus, Nitszch, was published a year later 

 (Pterylogr. p. 137, 1S40). 



31. Halcyon cokom.\>t)elicus, Scop. 



Must stand as ff. coromanda, Lath. The variations, both of colour and dimensions, which 

 this species exhibits in the different localities it inhabits have been well shown by Mr. Sharpe in 

 his accurate and conscientious monograph. The Japanese race is larger, and not smaller, than 

 that of India. 



32. H. ATBICAPILLUS, Gm. 



=11. pileata, Bodd., which must stand. 



33. H. Fuscus, Bodd. 



Mr. Sharpe finds that individuals from Asia Minor, and from India, Malay peninsula, &c., 

 are absolutely the same, and therefore adopts H. smynieusis (Linn.). This sets the question at 

 rest ; for we cannot follow a more reliable author. The individual described by Dr. Stoliczka is 

 clearly a young bird. 



Ibis, 1871, 3.5. Dacelo pulchella, Horsf. 



p. 166. 



Carcineutes is a good genus, characterized by the notch at the gape, and should be adopted 



for this species and its Bornean ally. The example described seems to be one of a very old bird, 



but not quite in full plumage. The chestnut collar disappears in very old individuals, and the 



entire hinder neck is blue. 



36. tEthopyga LATH.-viii (Jard.). 



Since writing my paper on the eastern Sun-birds, I have had the good fortune to acquire from 

 Pinang a large series of the species noticed under this title by Dr. Stoliczka. The correct title 

 for the Malaccan jEthopyga cannot be decided imtil Sumatran examples of Certhia siparaja. 

 Raffles, have been compared with it. There is, and has been, little doubt that Nectarinia lathami, 

 Jard., was described from a Malaccan individual, or else from an example not differing from the 

 Malaccan species. But Sir Stamford's description of C. siparaja will ecjually well apply to the 

 Malaccan bird, the brown middle pair of rectriccs notwithstanding, old feathers not thrown off. 

 Dr. C'abanis is the only author who has maintained that the Malaccan yEthopyga is distinct from 

 the Sumatran. His title, eupogon, certainly applies to the Malaccan species, and I find, by 

 comparison, that Labuan examples cannot be separated. But Dr. Cabanis does not leave it quite 

 clear that he had compared his eupogon with the Sumatran siparaja. A Sumatran example, it is 



