100 List of Birds obtained near Calcutta. 



100. Cyanecula Suecica. I have obtained numerous specimens of 

 this bird during the last cold season, but not any in the preceding 

 one. All have the central mark of the breast rufous, and not white. 



101. Musclpeta paradisca ; M. Indica, vel castanea, Auct,, is the 

 once-moulted bird. By no means rare. 



102. Miiscicapa melanops. Not uncommon during the cool season. 



103. M. c«r«/6'«, Vieillot ; M. occipitcdis. Vigors; and the female 

 — M. cm-uleocephala, Sykes, but not of other authors. Excessively 

 common in the winter months. 



104. Crypfolopha poiocephula. Of this I have obtained but one 

 specimen during the last cool season. 



105. Rhipidura fiiscoventris. Common at all seasons, and conspi- 

 cuous both for its acti^-ity and the pleasing song-notes of the male. 



106. Pericrocotus princeps ; genus P^Q?n icorn/s, Swainson. I ob- 

 tained a female (one of a pair) during last January. 



107. P. roseus ; Muscicapa rosea, Vieillot. Tolerably common du- 

 ring the cool season. 



108. P. peregrinus. Common at all seasons. 



109. Gruucalus Papuensis ; Gr. Nipalensis, Hodgson. Not rare. 



110. Cehlepyris melaschistos ; Volvocivora melaschistos, Hodgson ; 

 Graucalus macidosus, M'Clelland and Horsfield. Moderately common. 



111. C jimbriatus, Jerdon, who expresses a suspicion that C. canus 

 of Sykes is merely the male. Not rare. 



lis. Lanius .'' A species very like the young of L. collurio, 



and which does not appear to advance beyond the state of plumage 

 characteristic of the young of its congeners generally, is very com- 

 mon in the cool season. 



113. Tephrodornis superciViaris, Sw. ; Lanius Keruula, Hardwicke 

 and Gray. Common. 



114. T. concolor, nobis. I obtained a single specimen of a female, 

 noticed as perhaps a variety of the preceding species in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xi. 799. 



115. Artamus rufiventer. Common. 



116. Cometes Krishna ; Edolius Krishna, Gould. Tolerably com- 

 mon. 



117. Edolius grandis, Gould; Cometes Malaharoides, Hodgson. 



118. E.retifer, Temminck ; E. Malabaricus, Gould. Both of 

 these are occasionally to be met with in the shops, the former being 

 a fine songster. 



119. Dicrurus Fingah ; erroneously ascribed to balicassius by 

 authors generally; D. albirichis, Hodgson. A very common and 

 most conspicuous species. 



120. D. macrocercus ; B. annectens, Hodgson. Far from rare. 



121. Melisseus ceneiis ; M. 7nuscipetoide<i, Hodgson. Common. 

 N.B. For a monograph of the Asiatic Drongas, vide J. A. S. B. 



xi. 799 etseq. and note to p. 882. 



122. Ixos Cafer. Very abundant, and replaced in Southern India 

 by a nearly allied species — /. pseudocafer, nobis. 



123. I.jocosus. Common, but considerably less so than the pre- 

 ceding species. 



