106 ON DR. STOLICZKA'S " COXTRIBUTIONS [1S71. 



Malaccan examples from a Lake-Baikal individual. T. chrysolaus, Temm. ap. Godwin-Austen, 

 J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 1 02, no. 358, ex- Jeid., is a female of T. pallVtis. This indindual, obtained 

 at Cherra Punji, exhibits the secondary coverts tipped with white, as shown in the 'Fauna 

 Japonica,' a feature not always present. This species can scarcely be classed under Geocichla. 



50. loRA TYPiiiA (Linn.). 



/. zei/lonica (Gm.) was described from a Ceylon biid. IJr. Stoliczka states that " birds with 

 the whole upper black plumage of zeijlonka are never met with in Burma and the Malayan 

 countrj." My experience of the species fully confirms this statement. And I may add that I 

 have never seen a full-pluraaged Ceylon male in the garb of a Burmese /. t)/phia. These two 

 birds are additional instances to the many already known where the full plumage in the one species 

 is more or less the female or young garb of another species. It is very likely that /. zeijlonica 

 and /. typhia interbreed at the extreme limits of their respective regions, in the same way as 

 Coracias indica and C. affinis ; but this in no way establishes their specific identity. I cannot find 

 that Mr. Blyth has ever doubted the distinctness of the two species. He has, however, suggested 

 the probability of hybrids occurring. 



58. PlITLLORXIS JAVENSIS (Horsf.). 



The identitj' of the Malayan with the Javan species has yet to be established. 



59. PuTLLOEXis CYAXOPOGOX, Temm. 



As described, the Province-AV ellesley individuals do not agree with Temminck's species, in 

 in which there is no yellow whatever. True P. ct/u)iopogon, Temm., is sometimes sent from 

 Malacca in collections. 



60. PnTLLORXIS COCHINSLN-EXSIS (Lath.). 



This is Gmelin's title, bestowed by him on Montbeillard's " Verdin de la Cochinchine " (Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. iii. p. 409). The type was figured in the 'Planches Enlumiuees,' no. 043. f. 2. Mont- 

 IbU, 1871, beillard affirms that it most certainly came from Cochin China, because it was contained in the 

 ^' ^^^' same case with an " animal porte-musc " sent direct from that country. Temminck compared 

 the type specimen in the Paris Museum with examples of a Phyllornis said by him to be sent in 

 large numbers from Java and Sumatra, and states that they did not difier from the type. This 

 species of riii/Uornis Temminck figured (PI. Col. 484. fig. 2) from a Javan example, and he 

 refers to that Plate as containing the most exact resemblance of the species until then published. 

 Montbeillard's account agrees well with the figure given by Temminck, and with Javan examples 

 in my possession. But the bird remarked on by Dr. Stoliczka is a totally distinct species, namely 

 Phyllornis malabaricus {auct. ap. Temm. PL Col. no. 512. fig. 2)=Ph. icterocephalus, Temm. 

 ap. Bp. (1850), a title which I presume must stand, although never published by Temminck; 

 for I cannot concur with Horsfield and Moore (Cat. E.I. Co. i. p. 411) in identifying the yellow- 

 headed Pliyllornis with C/iluropsis mysticalis, Swains. (1838). Indeed Dr. Stoliczka's statement, 

 that the female has the wings and tail coloured like the male, efi'cctually disposes of any such 



