484 NOTE ON CARCINEUTES AMABILIS. 



976. — Thalassidroma f. 



677 bis. — Stercorarius pomarinus, Tem. 



983 bis. — Gelochelidon innotata, Beavan. 



985. — Seena seena, Sykes. Sahveen River. 



988 bis. — Sterna Jerdoni, Beavan. 



991. — Onyclioprion melanauchen, Tem. 



992.- — Onyclioprion anosthatus, Scop. 



1005. — Gracidus carbo, Lin. 



1007. — Graculus melanognathus, Brandt. JPahpoon, Ye-boo ; 



common. 

 1008. — Plotus melanogaster, Penn. Pa7ipoon, Ye-boo, Ye; 



common. 



tote Jdftt fecmentea amataM 



By K. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



In Vol. I of this Journal (p. 474) Mr. Hume describes a 

 new species of Carcineutes from Pegu, about which I would 

 like to say a few words. I know this bird of Mr. Hume's, I 

 believe, for Mr. Gould has long had a Siamese specimen in his 

 collection which he wanted me to describe and figure in my 

 ' monograph.' The characters he assigned to his supposed 

 new species were much the same as those brought forward by 

 Mr. Hume, namely, the continuous blue of the head and back 

 and the absence of the rufous collar. But this bird I would 

 never allow Mr. Gould to describe ; and now that Mr. Hume 

 has done so, it seems only fair to the former gentleman to give 

 my reasons why Carcineutes amabilis is not distinct from G. 

 pulchellus. The Javan bird was one of the first that I figured 

 in my book; it came out, indeed, in the first number when 

 Mr. Keulemans was living in Holland and drawing birds for me 

 from the Leiden collection, as I from time to time indicated to 

 him. This state of things did not, it is true, last long, for, 

 after finishing two parts, Mr. Keulemans was able to come over 

 to England and carry on my work here ; but among the incon- 

 venient results of my separation from my artist is the fact 

 that my description of C. pulchellus does not tally with the 

 figure in the plate, as they were taken from different specimens. 

 Candidly speaking, I did not observe this difficulty about the 

 blue collar until long after the part was published and Mr. Gould 

 produced his second species. On turning over my series, how- 

 ever, I came to the conclusion that the Siamese bird was only the 



