1866.] VISCOUNT WALDEN ON BIRDS FROM TENASSERIM. 539 



young birds ; bill orange ; legs yellow." Malabar, Subhimalayan, 

 and Burmese individuals are regarded as identical by Messrs. Blyth 

 and Jerdon. Mr. Blyth also, in his catalogue, identified Indian with 

 Javan specimens preserved in the Calcutta Museum — an interesting 

 fact ; for the intermediate countries of the Malay peninsula are inha- 

 bited by a distinct species, L. galgulus, (Linn.). The line of contact 

 between the two species has yet to be recorded. An analogous fact 

 is the existence of a third distinct species (L. asiaticus) in Ceylon, 

 to which small area it is confined ; while north of the Straits of 

 Manaar the country of L. vernalis commences. 



4. Gecinus viridantjs, (Blyth). 



Picus viridanus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 1000, 6 ; 1844, 

 p. 394, 5 . 



No. 20. Schouay Goon, Salween River. 



" Irides dark purple ; bill dark horny above, greenish yellow be- 

 neath, except tip, which is darker ; legs and claws dull greenish yel- 

 low." A male in full plumage with scarlet crest. Mr. Blyth (Cat. 

 Calc. Mus.) subsequently identified his G. viridanus, which was 

 founded on Arakan specimens, with the Javau dimidiatus, Temm. 

 But I cannot find any note of his having compared specimens from 

 the two localities, and Javan specimens did not exist in the Calcutta 

 Museum when the catalogue was framed. Malherbe has followed 

 Mr. Blyth, but without assigning a reason ; and Sundevall (Consp. 

 Av. Picinarum) has adopted the same view. Iu the India Museum, 

 however, both Mr. Blyth's type and the Javau bird are preserved ; 

 and in their catalogue of that collection Messrs. Horsfield and Moore 

 enumerate them as distinct, an opinion in which I concur. Pegu 

 specimens of the nearly allied G. striolatus, Blyth, are preserved in 

 the British Museum. 



5. Yungipicus canicapillus, (Blyth). 



Picus canicapillus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 197. 



No. 29, $ . Schouay Goon, Salween River. 



" Bill horny ; legs greenish." The presence of a red streak on 

 each side of the head of the specimen sent inclines me to regard 

 Captain Beavan's determination of the sex as erroneous. This bird 

 is nearly related to the Javan form, the moluccensis of Blyth and of 

 Horsfield and Moore, but not of Malherbe, which is, according to 

 that author, from the Philippines and Moluccas. According to Mr. 

 Blyth, the form which inhabits the peninsula of Malacca is identical 

 with the Java bird ; and specimens from both regions existed in the 

 Calcutta Museum. In the specimen sent the crown is of a light- 

 greyish brown, readily distinguishable from the dark-rufous-brown 

 occiput of a Javan male in my collection. The bill is equal in length, 

 but much stouter ; the wings are perceptibly longer ; the longitu- 

 dinal streak on the breast-feathers is broader and of a darker brown ; 

 and the general shade of the brown plumage is deeper than in my 

 Javan specimen. Malherbe has omitted to notice the Javan form ; 

 but, on Mr. Blyth's assertion of its identity with the Malaccan bird 



