chiefly to the Birds of India. 171 



Ixus iNORNATUS = /. brunneus et /. plumosus (nee /. simplex). 

 Ley den Museum. 



Oriolus chinensis : 27 specimens from Java, Borneo, China, 

 and elsewhere. Not any that could be referred to O. hippocrepis 

 or to O. tenuirostris ! O. phaioconms is a remarkably coloured 

 Oriole from Gilolo, which is wholly blackish, Leyden Museum. 



CocHOA, Hodgson = Ore«s,Temm. , as exemplifiedby 0.«2^?«'ea 

 {Pteruthius azureus, Temm., PL Col. 274), which J assigned 

 rightly from the figure of it cited (Ibis, 1867, p. 32), It is 

 interesting to find a Javan representative of this particularly 

 remarkable Asiatic form. 



Garrulax rubiginosus, nobis (Ibis, 1865, p. 46), proves to 

 be a West-African bird, which in Leyden is marked Crateropus 

 atripennis, Swainson {Phyllatithus capucinus, Lesson) ; and the 

 allied G. poliocephalus, nobis {loc. cit.), may also, therefore, be 

 African, There is, however, a Sumatran G. poliocephalus 

 (Temm.) — rufous-brown, with grey head, throat, and front of 

 neck; lores and chin black; the bill and feet pale, Leyden 

 Museum"^. 



CoRVUS MACRORHYNCHUS, Temm. = C culminatus, Sykes. 



CoRVUS VALiDUs, Schlegel=C, tenuirostris,'M.oove'Wm^\2 

 to 12*5 in, Hab. Malacca, Sumatra. 



CoRvus ENCA, Horsfield. Wing 11 to 12 in, Hab. Java. 



CoRVus VALiDissiMUS, Schlegel. Wing 12 to 13 in, ; beak 

 immense. Batchian and elsewhere. This and the two last 

 mentioned form three races, differing only in size. Leyden 

 Museum. 



Urocissa cucullata, apud Beavan (Ibis, 1868, p. 169). 

 Obviously U. flavirostris, nobis, as distinguished from U. cucul- 

 lata, Gould. 



DoNACOLA ATRiCAPiLLA (Leyden Museum) = MMnm rubro- 



nigra, Hodgson. Bornean specimens are similar to Indian, with 



belly and lower tail-coverts black ; in the Sumatran this black 



is almost obsolete ; and in those from Macassar the black be- 



* lu 'Ibis,' 1868, p. 249, line 20, for "albescent," read " allied.'" 



