chiefly to the Birds of India. 163 



Regent^s Park, a pair of each of them, as at the present time. 

 Which of them, if either, it is that visits Syria, where it is re- 

 corded ('Journal of the Euphrates Expedition,^ i. pp.443, 537) 

 as " abounding in the spring," remains to be ascertained. 



Pal^ornis javanicus and P. vibrisca. These only differ 

 in the Javan bird having a red lower mandible, while the other 

 has a black one ; but in some Javan specimens the lower man- 

 dible is blackish, and Mr. Gould has a specimen from Siam with 

 a red under mandible : the Hainan birds have it black [antea, 

 p. 93). 



Picus WAGLERi, Hartlaub. A specimen thus labelled, from 

 the "Himalaya," in the Amsterdam Museum is like P. maccei, 

 but larger, with the median six rectrices black as in P. atratus; 

 wing 4*625 in. P. wagleri, Hartl., is identified with P. maccei 

 by Malberbe, who describes and figures a Brazilian species under 

 that name. If he be right, the species at Amsterdam may bear 

 the title of P. "Westermani, nobis. The Tenassei-im P. atratus 

 is also larger than P. macai, or 8 inches in total length, notwith- 

 standing that Capt. Beavan (Ibis, 1869, p. 413) places a mark 

 of doubt to this ! The species which he describes [loc. cit.) is 

 Yungipicus canicapillus, nobis, barely distinguishable from Y. 

 sondaicus, of the Malayan peninsula (Ibis, 1866, p. 354). 



Chrysocolaptes strictus. Of three figures assigned to this 

 species by Malherbe, the supposed female seems to be that of 

 C. delesserti, while the lowest figure in his plate represents the 

 female of C. strictus, having the yellow cap as before mentioned 

 by me (Ibis, 1866, p. 355). 



MuELLERTPicus FEDDENi, Blauford (J. A, S. B. xxxii. p. 75, 

 1863), is Thriponax jerdoni, Cab. & Heine (Mus.Hein. ii. p. 105, 

 note, 15 July, 1863). 



Gectnus viridanus, nobis, common in the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces, has been identified with G. dimidiatus of Sumatra and 

 Java ; and there is in the Leyden Museum a specimen of the 

 Indian G. striolatus, nobis, marked from Java, which I cannot 

 help suspecting must be a mistake. 



After carefully looking over the extensive collection of Cucu- 



