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4. P. forsteni, Bp. Celebes. 
5. P. muelleri, Bp. Borneo. 
6. P. sordida (L. 8. Miiller). Philippines. 
The first three species are representative forms of a Papuan type; the remaining three 
of an Indo-Malayan. 
Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. ii. p. 4, no. 10) identifies an example of Melanopitta in the 
Halberstadt collection, and said to be from Timor, as Turdus brevicaudus, Bodd. 
This is seemingly an error, P. 7rena being the only known Timorese species. 
Sumatra is brought within the range of the Philippine Melanopitta by Mr. Elliot 
(l.¢.); but no authority is quoted. 
The examples obtained by Dr. Meyer (¢ 2) in no way differ. 
CRATEROPODID. 
Meeaturvs, Horsfield. 
96. MEGALURUS PALUSTRIS. 
Megalurus palustris, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 159, “ Java” (1820); Blyth, J. A.S. B. 1844, 
p. 372; Ibis, 1865, p. 30; op. cit. 1867, p. 6. 
Malurus marginalis, Remw., Temm. Pl. Col. 65. fig. 2, “Java” (1823); Kittlitz, Voy. Liitke 
(Postels) ii. p. 326. 
Hab. Luzon (Kittlitz); Philippines (Blyth). 
Kittlitz mentions (/.¢.) this species among the birds he observed in the island of 
Luzon. He remarks that it runs on the ground, and moves along and among the 
branches of low shrubs without jumping. Mr. Blyth (/. c.) identified the same species 
among the Philippine birds contained in the Derby Museum at Liverpool. Javan and 
Philippine examples have yet to be compared; and it may here be observed that the 
Megalurus of continental India (Turdus takko, Buch. Hamilton, M.S. ii. p. 75), does 
not appear to have been critically compared with the Javan type. 
CRATEROPUS, Swainson. 
97. CRATEROPUS CAUDATUS. 
Gracula caudata', Cuvier, in Mus. Paris; Pucheran, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 342; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 
p- 6. 
Hab. Philippines (Eydour & Gervais). 
The above specific title is, by most authors, attributed to Duméril; but no reference is 
‘Tt is possible that, under the title of Cossyphus caudatus, Duméril may have described the Cuvieran type , 
but I have failed to discover the place. The earliest description of the species I can find is by Drapiez, Dict. 
Class. vol. x. p. 219 (1826); but he quotes Duméril as the author of the title. 
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