354 ON THE BIEDS INHABITING [1875. 



MaJurus marginalis, Reinw., Temm. PI. Col, 65. fig. 2, "Java" (1823) ; Kittlitz, Voy. Liitke 

 (Postels) iii. p. 326. 



Uab. Luzon (Kittlitz) ; Philippines [BJyth). 



Kittlitz mentions (/. c.) this species among the birds he observed in the island of Luzon. 

 He remarks that it runs on the ground, and moves along and among the branches of low shrubs 

 without jumjiing. Mr. Blyth (/. c.) identified the same species among the Philippine birds 

 contained in the Derby Museum at Liverpool. Javan and Philippine examples have yet to be 

 compared ; and it may here be observed that the Megalurus of continental India {Turdus takko, 

 Buch. Hamilton, MS. ii. p. 75) does not appear to have been critically compared with the 

 Javan type. 



Crateropus, Swainson. 

 97. Crateropus caudatus*. 



Gracula caudata f , Cuvier, in Mus. Paris ; Pucheran, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 342 ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 6. 



Hob. Philippines [Eydoux & Gervais). 



The above specific title is, by most authors, attributed to Dumeril ; but no reference is ever 

 Tr. Z. S. ix. cited. Cuvier bestowed the Museum title of Gracula caudata on two examples in the Paris 

 P* • Museum — one said to have been obtained in Australia, the other in Bengal. Dr. Pucheran, 

 however (/. c), is of opinion that the second example in reality came from the Philippines, as 

 Manilla is inscribed on its stand, and also because it agrees with an authentic Philippine indi- 

 vidual in the Paris Museum, obtained by MM. Eydoux and Souleyet. I can find no other record 

 of a species of this genus having been observed or obtained in the Philippines. Indian authors 

 seem to have been somewhat hasty in identifying the common Indian Timalia chatarrlum, 

 Frankl., with Gracula caudata, Cuv. Dr. Pucheran (/. c.) does not say that the Bengal bird is 

 equally found in the Philippines, as stated by Mr. Blyth {I. c). 



Timalia leucotis, Strickl., is erroneously given from Manilla by Mr. G. E. Gray in the 

 Hand-list, no. 4748. 



Ilomochlamys luscinia, Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Sc. Torino, v. p. 510, " Filippine o ChinaT' | 

 (1870), is, according to its author, aTimaliine form, which was contained in a collection of Chinese 

 and Philippine birds sent to the Turin Museum. As the describer is not certain of its origin, it 

 is not included in this list. 



* [Admitted by error into the list of Philippine birds, vide Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 694.— Ed.] 



t It is possible that, under the title of Uossyphus caudatus, Dumeril may have described the Cuvieran type ; but I 



have failed to discover the place. The earliest description of the species I can find is by Drapiez, Diet. Class, vol. x. p. 219 



(1826) ; but he quotes Dumeril as the author of the title. 



J Erroneously stated in the 'Zoological Record' for 1870, p. 47, to be from the Philippines and China, an error 



repeated in the Hand-list, iii. p. 263, no. 4763*. Count Salvadori has since (Ibis, April 1873, p. 179) identified it with 



Calamoherpe {Uerbivox) canturieits, Swinhoe, a Chinese and Formosan species, but -n-hich may migrate to the PhUippuics. 



Count Salvadori's generic title has precedence. 



