230 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS [1872. 



^^'^' -l-o"' Alctrus ociirocepiialus (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 821 (1788), ex Brown. 



p. %Ji J, 



Yellow-crowned Thrush, Brown, Illustr. p. 50, pi. 22, " Ceylon (errore) and Java." 



Trichophorus crispiccps, Blyth, J. A. S. B. pp. 186, 204, " Tenasserim " (1842). 



Ceylonese Stare, Lath. Syn. ii. p. 11. no. 11, "Ceylon." 



Stitrnus zei/lanicus, Gm. torn. cit. p. 804. no. 11 (1788), ex Lath. 



Trachycomus ochrocephalus (Gm.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 109. 



Examples from Java, Sumatra, Malacca, Sarawak, and Tenasserim are identical. 



The description of the Ceylonese Stare given by Latham agrees well with this species, 

 although, of course, the Ceylon habitat is erroneous. 



Its affinities seem to be with Alcurus striatus, Blyth ; and therefore I do not adopt the genus 

 Trachijcomus, formed for it and three other forms oi Pycnonotus by Dr. Cabanis (/. c). 



KiTTACiNCL.\ suAVis (Sclater), P. Z. S. 18G1, p. 185, " Borneo meridionalis," op. cit. 1863, p. 216. 



" Marup, cj ." 



This example possesses the three outer pairs of rectrices pure white from their insertion, the 

 fourth pair being only partially black on the inner web. The average length of the wing in 

 Ceylon, Maunbhoom, Hainan, Malaccan, and Sumatran A'. ?nrtcyoi//*« is 3"63 inches, in Javan 3*87; 

 in this Bomean representative form it is fuUy 4 inches. It is interesting to find that the North 

 Bomean bird possesses the distinctive characters first noticed in that from South-east Borneo. 



Prionochilus macul.\tus (Temm.), PI. Col. 600. fig. 3, ^, "Borneo" (1836). 



" Simunjon, 6 , iris dark red, bill and legs dark brown." 

 Malaccan examples are identical. 



Prionochilus xaxthopygils, Salvadori, Atti Ac. Sc. Torino, 1868, p. 416, pi. — . fig. 1 s 

 2$, "Borneo." 



" Jambusan, s •" 

 Ibis, 18,2, ^ good species, peculiar to Borneo, difiering from P. percussus (Temm.) by having the 



p. t50U. 



uropygium bright yellow. 



Dictum ciirtsoeriiq;uji, Temm. PI. Col. 478. fig. 1, ^f, "Java" (182'J). 



Dicceum chnjsochlore, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 1009, $ , " Arracan." 



"Marup, rf, iris red, bill black." 



Undistinguishable from Malaccan and Tonghoo examples. In the Hand-list, no. 1417, 

 I), croceoventre, Vigors, is erroneously given as a synonym of this species. 



DiCECM TRIGONOSTIGMA (Scop.), Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 91. no. 64 (1780), ex Sonnerat; 

 Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 545 *, " Moulmein." 



Le (jnmpercan sijffieur de la Chine, Sonnerat, Voy. aux Indes, ii. p. 210, pi. 117. fig. 2, d. 

 C'erthia cantillans. Lath. Ind. Ora. i. p. 299, no. 61 (1790), ex Sonnerat; Temm. PL Col. 

 478. f. 3, d, " China (!?), Java." 



Uicaujii cruccocetitre. Vigors, Memoir of Raffles, p. 673, d, "Sumatra" (1830). 



• [Anted, p. 22.— Ed.] 



