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Two examples in adult plumage. The female (fide Meyer) has the wing a quarter 
of an inch shorter than the male. Dr. Meyer has this note on one of the labels, “ Said 
to have been introduced from China”—a tradition already recorded by Mr. Swinhoe 
(Ibis, 1867, pp. 387, 388). There is no difference to be detected between these Luzon 
individuals and examples from Hainan and Shanghai. 
Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. i. p. 205, no. 968), as in so many other instances, was the 
author who first cleared up the confusion into which the synonymy of this species had 
been thrown. His identification of Pastor cristatellus (Gm.), Wagler (Syst. Av. Pastor, 
p. 90, no. 14, “China and Java”), with Pastor griseus, Horsf. (=Acridotheres javanicus’, 
Cab. J. c.), is undoubtedly correct. 
Turdus griseus, Gm., apud Bp. (/.c.), nec Gm., agrees with the J avan species. 
Gracula cristatella, L., apud Bp. (op. cit.) is probably Pastor fuscus, Wagler (op. cit.), 
of India and Burma, and not, as suggested by Mr. Swinhoe (Ibis, 1867, p. 387), Acri- 
dotheres siamensis, Swinh. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 303, which is a representative form of the 
Philippine A. cristatellus, but to be readily distinguished by its pure white under tail- 
coverts, broadly white-tipped rectrices, and unicoloured bill. 
Merula philippensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 278, no, 35, “ Philippines,” = Paradisea tristis, 
Linn. S. N. i. p. 167, no. 3 (1766), ex Briss., the Acridotheres tristis of modern authors, 
is now well known to be indigenous to India and Ceylon only, although Brisson 
expressly states that his type specimen was sent to M. Aubrey from the Philippines. 
SrurniA, Lesson. 
127. STuRNIA VIOLACEA. 
Rubetra philippensis major, Brisson, Orn. iii, p. 446, no. 32, pl. 22. fig. 3, “ Philippines ” (adult). 
Le grand Traquet des Philippines, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 230; D’Aubenton, Pl. Enl. 185. 
fig. 2. 
Motacilla violacea, Boddaert, Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 11 (1783), ex D’Aubent. 
Motacilla philippinensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 968, no. 101 (1788), ex Briss. 
Pastor ruficollis, Wagler, Syst. Av., Pastor, no. 19, “ Manilla” (1829) ; v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, 
p. 15, no. 64. 
Lamprotornis pyrrhogenys, Temm. & Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 86, “ Japan, Borneo ” (1842) ; 
Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 78, “ Celebes.” 
Lamprotornis pyrrhopogon, Temm. & Schlegel, tom. cit. pl. 46. 
? Calornis albifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1861, p. 96, “ Philippines,” fide Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1863, 
p. 302, no. 217. 
1Dandin (Om. ii. p. 286, 1800) bestowed the specific title of griseus on Le Vaillant’s Martin gris de fer 
(Ois. @’Afr. pl. 95. f. 2), which is the same species as Turdus gingianus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 362, based 
on le petit Martin de Gingi of Sonnerat (Voy. Indes, ii. p. 194). Horsfield’s title of griseus for the Jayan 
Acridotheres was therefore anticipated, and Dr. Cabanis proposed that of javanicus, which stands. 
