1871. J DR.T. SALVADORI ON CERIORNIS CABOTI. 695 



Female (or young male) olivaceous brown above, the feathers with 

 paler margins, which have a brighter red tinge on the rump, wing- 

 coverts, quills, and tail-feathers ; lower parts pale umber. 



The tarsi are shorter than in P. nipalensis, rather stouter and 

 much more strongly scutellate, besides being apparently rather paler 

 in colour ; the claws are rather larger ; and the bill appears to be 

 stouter ; but this last difference may be due to individual peculiarity. 



The coloration of the new species is very different from that of 

 P. nipalensis. The bird in summer plumage may owe its olivaceous 

 tint to being a young male, and the female of P. rubescens may be 

 as dully tinted as that of its congener ; but the male is altogether paler 

 and lighter in colour, and wants the deep rich crimson of the back 

 and breast, the rosy throat, and pink abdomen of P. nipalensis, being 

 rather a brown or greyish-brown bird, with the feathers margined 

 with red. 



It still remains to be ascertained what is Hodgson's female P. ni- 

 palensis. As I have remarked above, the dull-coloured bird sent to 

 me may be a young male ; but I scarcely think that the difference in 

 the tarsi from those of P. nipalensis would have escaped so sharp an 

 ornithological eye as Mr. Hodgson's, or that the bird described by 

 him as the female of P. nipalensis can have belonged to the species 

 now distinguished. 



6. Note on Ceriornis caboti. 

 By Thomas Salvadori, M.D., C.M.Z.S. 



[Received November 4, 1871.] 



Ceriornis caboti. 



Ceriornis caboti, Gould, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 161 ; ejusd. Birds of 

 Asia, pt. x. pi 2; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 123; Swinh. Ibis, 

 1865, p. 350; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 164. 



In the King of Italy's private collection at Florence is a Ceriornis 

 which was brought from some Chinese port alive by an Italian 

 trader in Silkworm-seed, and arrived alive in Genoa, but died before 

 reaching its destination in His Majesty's aviary. 



Prof. Giglioli some time ago sent me a drawing of it, which so 

 much differed from Gould's plate, that at first I thought it repre- 

 sented a different species. But when I compared the specimen 

 itself with the plate I was convinced that it was really a fully adult 

 specimen of C. caboti, and I accounted for the differences by sup- 

 posing that the specimen represented by Gould was not fully adult, 

 or in an imperfect state of preservation. 



The differences regard the head and the tail, while the body and 

 wings are exactly the same. The tail in Gould's plate wants the 

 large black band at the end, which is very conspicuous in the spe- 

 cimen before me. 



More important are the differences in the head. In Gould's 



