p. 304. 



490 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FEOM THE [1S77. 



67. CiLiLCOPAEIA PnCEMCOTIS. 



Motacilla singalensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 964 (1788). 



Nectarinia phcenkotis, Temm, PI. Col. 108. f. 1, 388. f. 2, "Java, Sumatra" (1824). 



A single specimen in immature plumage belongs to this species. Now that the knowledge 

 of the geographical range of most species of birds has become so much more defined and accu- 

 rate, the time appears to have arrived when inappropriate and misleading geographical titles 

 may be with safety suppressed. This bird is certainly not found in Ceylon ; nor does it occur on 

 the Asiatic continent to the westward of the Brahmaputra. I have therefore adopted Temminck's 

 title, which is next in priority. It is true that Count Salvador! (Ucc. Born. p. 180) makes 

 CeHhia rectirostris, Shaw, apply to this species ; but that title, founded on plate Ixxv. of Vieillot's 

 ' Oiseaux Dores,' belongs to an African bird, Cinnyris elegans, Vieillot (N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xxxi. p. 506, 1819), which was also figured by Vieillot under the same title some years later 

 (Galerie des Ois. i. p. 292, t. clxxviii.). 



68. ZOSTEKOPS LuiTEEALIS, 



Zosterops lateralis, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ; Hartlaub, J. fiir 0. 1865, p. 15, " Java and Sumatra." 



Very near to continental Z. pal-pebrosiis, but of a more saturated green above, and with a 

 Ibis, 1877, longitudinal streak of bright yellow on the abdomen ; the tail dark brown. It is also the form 

 found at Malacca. 



09. Pakus atkiceps. 



Parus atriceps, Horsf. t. c. p. 100, " Java" (1820). 



Le Mesange grise a joue blanche, Le Vaillant, Ois. dAfr. iii. p. 171, t. 139 *. fig. superior, 

 " Batavia." 



Farus cinereus, Vieill. Tabl. Encyl. Meth. ii, p. 506 (1823), ex Le Vaillant. 



Identical with typical examples. 



70. JilGITHmA SCAPULAEIS. 



lora scapularis, Horsf. t. c. p. 152, "Java" (1820); Zool. Res. Java, t. 

 Turdus scapularis, Horsf., Kaffles, t. c. p. 311, "Sumatra." 



A young male, procured by Mr. Buxton, is not separable from Javan examples of the 

 female, except that all the new rectrices are black, Javan and Sumatran females are identical. 



71. tEgithixa viridissima. (Plate V. fig. 1 ( j ), 2 ( 2 ), in orig.) 



lora viridissima, Bp. Consp. i. p. 397, "Sumatra, Borneo" (1850). 



Two full-plumaged males and one female were obtained by Mr. Buxton ; and I am thus 

 enabled to give a description of the female of this somewhat rare species. The upper plumage 

 of the female is like that of the male, only not so dark green. In jE. scapularis $ , ex Java, and 

 in JE. zeylonica 2 and tijplda ? , the dorsal plumage is yellow-green. The colouring of the 

 rectrices in 2E. viridissima 2 is likewise darker green than in ^. scapularis. Underneath the 



* Le Vaillant, in error, misnumbered the figures on this plate. 



