44 Mr. E. Blyth on the Ornitholuyy of the neighbourhood of 



No. 104. I have procured but one more example of Cryptolopha 

 jwiocephala. 



No. 109. Grmicalus papuensis of India generally and the Malay- 

 countries (Ceblepi/ris Javensis, Horsfield, and Gr. nipalensis, Hodg- 

 son) certainly appears to accord with Latham's description of the 

 Papuan Crow, excepting that the loral region is not black, but merely 

 of a darker ash-colour than the rest. Length about 12 inches, of 

 wing 6i to 6|^ in., and of tail 5 to 5| in. Although, in the few cases 

 which I have examined, the females have been distinguished by ha- 

 ving the under-parts transversely striated from the throat, yet I have 

 received two or three skins marked as female which had the lower 

 parts as in the male. Of several specimens before me, none equals 

 the dimensions of those assigned by Mr. Hodgson, though I have 

 received specimens from him marked as nipalensis, which were per- 

 fectly identical in species with those of Bengal, Southern India, &c. 



No. 111. Lalage Sykesi, as described by Mr. Strickland, is the 

 adult male of the species referred by Mr. Jerdon and myself, after 

 Col. Sykes, to Ceblepyris fimbriatus *. No. 110 should also probably 

 be placed as a Lalage, but the divisions of this group do not appear 

 to be generally well-defined. 



No. 112. Mr. Strickland is right in his identification of this shrike, 

 which is also the L. phcenicurtts of India, apud Latham, and his L. 

 lucionensis, L. melanotis,Yalencicime?, L.ferrvgiceps, Hodgson; and 

 it is further noticed by Latham as the " Cur cut ia, said to be found 

 about Calcutta, making a harsh noise," as mentioned in his account 

 of L. rufus. Mr. Swainson erroneously refers the L. erythronotus, 

 Vigors, to L. sup'erciliosus. The latter is described to inhabit Java 

 as well as India, and Raffles includes it in his catalogue of Sumatran 

 birds ; I have also received it from Singapore, where, however, 

 another species with analogous plumage appears to be more common, 

 the L. magnirostris of Lesson (Bel. Voy.), v. L. strigatus, Eytonf. 



Two other species are met with in this vicinity, the L. antiguanus. 



* If my Lalage Syhesi be the male of the Ceblepyris Jtmbriaf us of Sykes, 

 Jevdon and Blyth, the latter name must be incorrectly used. In my speci- 

 mens of what I consider the true C.jlinbriatus of Temminck, the wing is 

 4 inches 8 lines long, while in L. Sykesi it is 4 inches I line. Moreover my 

 C.jlinbriatus has the rump-feathers spiny, proving it to be a true Campepliaga, 

 while in L. Sykesi they are soft, which was m > chief reason for placing it 

 in the genus Lalage. — H. E. S. 



f I formerly supposed with Mr. Blyth that the Lanius lucionrnsis, Linn., 

 from the Philippine Islands, the L.'supereiUosus, Lath., from the Malay 

 countries, and the Z. crisfufus, Linn., from Bengal, were one and the same; 

 but having now obtained specimens from all these countries, I find that these 

 form three distinct though closely allied species. L. lucionensis has the front 

 gray, passing into grayish-brown on the crown and rich rufous-brown on the 

 back and tail ; /.. superciliosus has the front white, the crown and upper 

 parts rufous, and is I presume the L. magnirostris of Be\i\nger, but I cannot 

 at the moment refer to his work ; L. cristatus has the whole front and upper 

 parts rufous, and a smalh.r beak than the otiier two ; it must I suppose be 

 called melanolis, the name cristatus being " likely to propagate an import- 

 ant error. ' — II. E. S. 



