GLOBICEPHALUS INDICUS. 



Table of mcasiireincnts — Continued. 



137 



o 



12098 

 143G1 



12097 ^ 



I 

 12100 : 18.4 



20950 13. 8 



Cm. 

 15. C 



15.1 



20957 

 2999 



11.5 

 17.0 



J 1^:1 



lOj- 

 10- 

 9- 

 9- 



S 11- 



i 12= 



■ Least. 



t Posterior to the notch. 



X A.rtificially set (?). 



We pass now from the species which liave a whitish baud along the 



belly to those which are entirely black. lu three instances {G. scam- 



moni Cope, indicus Blytb, and brnchypterus Cope) it has been shown that 



individuals entirely black had the intermaxilliTe expanded distal!}^ so as 



to cover the anterior half of the beak. Two other nominal species (G. 



macrorhynchus Gray and G. (juadaloiipensis Gray) are known only from 



skulls, but as these have the premaxillaj expanded we may presume 



that the individuals from which they were derived were also entirely 



black. 



GLOBICEPHALUS INDICUS Blyth. 



Glohicephalas indicus, Blytli, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxi, p. 358. (Fide Blytb); 

 Jonrn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxviii, 1859, p. 4'JO. 



This species is only known to me from the account in Vol. xxviii of 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The color is stated to be 

 "uniform leaden-black, slightly paler underneath," The iutermaxilla? 

 are expanded. The dorsal and lumbar vertebrie taken together number 

 one more than is usual in G. brachypterns and one less than in G. mclas, 

 but this is a character of no value. 



The measurements of the exterior are few in number and do not in- 

 dicate specific distinctness. 



Until the type-skeletons in the Calcutta Museum have been more 

 fully described it will be impossible to determine the validity of this 

 species. 



