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355 ter. — Geocichla innotata, Bly. — (I disbelieve in the dis- 

 tinctness of this supposed species) . 

 Of the following eleven species the occurrence in the Malay- 

 Peninsula is extremely doubtful. As at present informed I 

 altogether disbelieve it : — 



77. — Glaucidium radiatum. 

 107. — Caprimulgus indicus. 

 148. — Palaeornis torquatus. 

 151 ter. — Palaeornis caniceps. 

 152. — Palaeornis fasciatus. 

 215 — Bhopodytes trietis. 



To these, however, I must now add the following, the occur- 

 rence of which in the Malay Peninsula, despite the authorities 

 on whose testimony 1 included them, I am now compelled to 

 doubt : — 



219. — Taccoeua leschenaulti. 

 584 ter. — Henicurus leschenaulti. 

 678 quat. — Crypsirrhina varians. 

 798 Sis. — Calcenas nicobarica. 

 781 quint A. — Carpophaga grisea. 



778 A. — Sphenocercus oxyurus. 

 778 B. — Sphenocercus korthalsi. 



69. — Elanus coeruleus. 

 103 quat A. — Collocalia troglodytes. 

 136.— Ceryle rudis. 



This reduces the number of accepted species to 461 and 

 leaves the doubtful at 20. 



But besides these there is one other species, which must, I 

 think, be not only excluded from our list, but altogether sup- 

 pressed, and that is, 387 B. — Trichastoma olivaceum, Strickl., A. 

 and M. of N. H., 1847, p. 132. 



Let me first reproduce, for the convenience of readers, Strick- 

 land's original description : — 



u Malacopteron olivaceum, Strickland — M. supra olivaceo- 

 brunneum, remigibus fuscis, extus rufobrunneo, intus albido 

 marginatis ; rectricibus rufo-bruuneis, rufo-marginatis, loris 

 superciliisque cinerascentibus, mento et gula sordide albidis, 

 pectore lateribusque pallide olivaceis, abdomine pallide fulvo, 

 crisso pallide rufo. 



" Upper parts olive brown ; remiges fuscous, edged exter- 

 nally with reddish brown and internally with whitish ; tail red- 

 dish brown, margined externally with rufous ; lores and streak 

 over eye greyish; chin and throat dirty white; breast and sides 

 pale olive brown ; belly pale fulvous ; vent and lower tail-co- 

 verts light rufous ; upper mandible fuscous, lower yellowish ; 

 feet and claws yellowish brown. 



" Total length, 6 inches ; beak to front, 10 lines ; to gape, 1 

 inch ; height, 3 lines ; breadth, 3£ lines ; wing, 2 inches 10 lines ; 

 medial rectrices, 2£ inches ; external ditto, 2 inches ; tarsus, 

 1 inch ; middle toe and claw, 11 lines ; hind ditto, 9 lines." 



This specimen of Strickland's came from Malacca, and if its 

 description be carefully compared with specimens of Trichas- 

 toma abbotti from Singapore to Sikkim, it will be found to cor- 

 respond absolutely with fully one-fourth of the number. With 

 other specimens it does not agree so well, because this species 



