NOTES. 453 



Mountain. In Jules Verreaux' collection are three specimens, 

 labelled Timor. 



Hartlaub's original description runs as follows : — " Supra sa- 

 turate flavescente viridis ; supracaudalibus flavioribus ; remigi- 

 bis nigris, dorsi colore marginatis ; cauda nigra ; annulo perio- 

 phthalmico albo ; infra nigro circumdato ; gula citrina ; pecto- 

 re et abdomine dilute plumbeis, medio longitudinaliter flavis ; 

 cruribus et subcaudalibus saturate flavis, subalaribus albis, fla- 

 vido varius, rostro brevi, recto, nigricante. - " 



Except that I should call the wings and tail dark brown 

 instead of black. This description fits our bird perfectly, and my 

 proposed name auriventer must, therefore, be suppressed, 

 lateralis being added instead to our Indian list. 



The Ceylon Spur Fowl is generally quoted as Galloper- 

 dix zeylonensis, Grin., S. N., I, 759, 1788 ; but Gmelin him- 

 self quotes the name bicalcarata from the Indian Zoology, fig. 

 14, shewing that this name and figure had been published 

 before his own compilation. 



He himself rejected this name because ho classed the bird 

 as a Perdix next to the Linnean Perdix (Francolinas) bicalcara- 

 tus of Senegal, but Pennant's name was clearly anterior to his 

 own, and as we are all agreed to class the bird in a wholy differ- 

 ent genus to that in which the Linnean bicalcaratus is placed, 

 Pennant's name must now be maintained. As a matter of fact, 

 Pennant's name appears to have been first published in the 

 London Folio edition of 1769, though the only editions that I 

 have been able to come across are the Loudon Quarto one of 

 1790,* and Forster's German one of 1795. 



Captain Butler sent me a lovely specimen of Demiegretta 

 gularis, Bosc, shot by him at Mundavie, in Kutch, on the 21st 

 of January, 1878. 



This bird is an old adult in the deepest ashy-blue plumage, 

 but it is remarkable for having not only a larger gular space 

 than usual pure white, but for having the whole of the primary 

 greater coverts, and also the 4th and 5th primaries, pure white. 



Mr. Seebohm says : et I have examined the types of Phyl- 

 loscopns presbytis and find, as I had already guessed, that this 

 species is identical with P. viridipennis, of Blyth, but inas- 

 much as P.jiresbytis was never described by Miiller, and the bird 



* So given on the title page, but the preface bears date March 1st, 1791, and I 

 lieve that the work was not actually published till 17'J'2. 



believe 



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