1866.] VISCOUNT WALDEN ON BIRDS FROM TENASSERIM. 545 



of a richer tone. The complete range of the species has yet to he 

 determined. 



14. Diceum trigonostigma, (Scop.). 



Certhia trigonostigma) Scop. Del. Fl. et Faun. Insub. 1786, ii. 

 p. 91. n. 64. 



No. 54, 2 • Moulmein. 



" Upper mandible pinkish brown, and tip of lower the same, gra- 

 duating to yellow underneath ; irides dark brown ; legs leaden." In 

 another note the gape is described as orange. Does not differ from 

 Malaccan specimens of the female. This species has not been found 

 further north than Arakan, and is unknown on the continent to the 

 westward. Mr. Blyth states that it is found in Sumatra. 



15. Pitta cyanoptera, Temm. PI. Col. 218. 



Pitta malaccensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 960, nee Scopoli. 



Nos. 13, J, 14, juv. Korkarit Island, Salween River. 



" Irides dark brown ; skin behind eye leaden ; legs pinkish fleshy; 

 bill brown-black. Young bird : gape and tip of bill crimson-red ; 

 legs fleshy." Arakan, Tenasserim, and Malayan specimens of the 

 form to which the examples sent belong have hitherto always been 

 regarded by Indian ornithologists as of the same species as the Javan 

 bird which furnished Temminck's type. But as yet no actual com- 

 parison with Javan specimens appears to have been made, and until 

 that is done the question of identity must remain in doubt. The 

 young bird is sordid in all its plumage, and has the first quill en- 

 tirely black, the second with only a white spot. A Sumatran spe- 

 cimen in the Indian Museum has the white on the primaries very 

 much restricted ; it is also a larger bird, and may be specifically se- 

 parated. 



16. Graucalus macei, Less. Trait. d'Orn. p. 390. 



No. 62. Moulmein. 



When compared with specimens from Central India, the one sent 

 exhibits no difference of plumage ; aud the dimensions are identical, 

 save those of the bill being somewhat less. 



17. Dissemurus paradiseus, (Linn.)? 



Cuculus paradiseus, Linn. S. N. ed. 12. 



No. 19. Salween Valley. 



A single specimen and in moulting plumage is sent. It represents 

 one of the numerous races of which C. paradiseus, Linn., may be 

 taken as the type. But it is in such indifferent order, the outer 

 rectrices being absent, that without further specimens it is impossible 

 to determine its position among the numerous races of the Racket- 

 tailed Drongos. 



18. BUCHANGA INTERMEDIA, (Blyth)? 



Dicrurus intermedins, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 298. 

 Nos. 27, 55, 60, 74, 79, 6 • Moulmein. 



