1875.] THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 367 



Acridotheres pMlippensis (Temm.), apud Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 352, "Hainan." 

 Acridotheres cristatellus (Linn.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 384, " S. China to Shanghai, 

 westwards to Szechuen, Hainan, Formosa." 



Hob. Luzon, January and April [Meyer). 



Two examples in adult plumage. The female {fide Meyer) has the wing a quarter of an Tr. Z.S. ix. 

 inch shorter than the male. Dr. Meyer has this note on one of the labels, " Said to have been "^^ "^"^' 

 introduced from China " — a tradition already recorded by Mr. Swinhoe (Ibis, 1867, pp. 387, 388). 

 There is no difference to be detected between these Luzon individuals and examples from 

 Hainan and Shanghai. 



Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. i. p. 205, no. 968), as in so many other instances, was the author 

 who first cleared up the confusion into which the synonymy of this species had been thrown. 

 His identification of Pastor cristatellus (Gm.), Wagler (Syst. Av. Pastor, p. 90, no. 14, " China 

 and Java"), with Pastor griseus, Horsf {= Acridotheres javanicusf, Cab. I. c), is undoubtedly 

 correct. 



Turdus griseus, Gm., apud Bp. (I. c), nee Gm., agrees with the Javan species. Gracula 

 cristatella, L., apud Bp. {op. cit.) is probably Pastor fuscus, Wagler {op. cit.), of India and 

 Burma, and not, as suggested by Mr. Swinhoe (Ibis, 1867, p. 387), Acridotheres siameiisis, 

 Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 303, which is a representative form of the Philippine A. cristatellus, but 

 to be readily distinguished by its pure white under tail-coverts, broadly white-tipped rectrices, 

 and unicoloured bill. 



Merula philippensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 278, no. 35, " Philippines," =Pfflra(Z/se« tristis, Linn. 

 S. N. i. p. 167, no. 3 (1766), ex Briss., the Acridotheres tristis of modern authors, is now well 

 known to be indigenous to India and Ceylon, although Brisson expressly states that his type 

 specimen was sent to M. Aubrey from the Philippines. 



Sturnia, Lesson. 

 127. Stuenia violacea. ^ 



Euhetra philippensis major, Brisson, Orn. iii. p. 446, no. 32, pi. 22. fig. 3, "Philippines" 

 {adult). 



Le grand Traguet des Philippines, Bufibn, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 230 ; D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 

 185. fig. 2. 



Motacilla violacea, Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 11 (1783), ex D'Aubent. 



Motacilla philippitiensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 968, no. 101 (1788), ex Briss. 



Pastor ruficollis, Wagler, Syst. Av., Pastor, no. 19, " Manilla" (1829); v. Martens, J. f. O. 

 1866, p. 15, no. 64. 



Lam]}rotornis pijrrhogenys, Temm. & Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 86, " Japan, Borneo " 

 (1842) ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 78, " Celebes." \_Antea, p. 178.] 



t Daudin (Orn. ii. p. 289, 1800) bestowed the specific name of [/riseus on Le Vaillant's Martin r/ris defer (Ois. d'Afr. 

 pi. 95. f. 2), wiiich is the same species as Turdus gingianus. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 302, based on le petit Martin, de Ginqi of 

 Sonnerat (Voy. Indies, ii. p. 194). Horsfield's title of griseus for the Javan Acridotheres was therefore anticipated and 

 Dr. Cabanis proposed that oi javanicus, which stands. 



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