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a fortiori, (for the differences are even more marked), maintain 

 both Trochalopteron variegatum and simile. 



There is a wretched species, No. 649 ter of my list, viz., 

 Melaniparus semilarvatus, of Salvador!, of which I have for 

 years tried to obtain a description. At last I wrote to Salvadori 

 himself, but he, though very kindly favouring me with all his 

 more recent publications, will not come to the front about this 

 particular species. I conclude it, is a bad species. 



Having lately obtained access to the XIX Vol. of the Asia- 

 tic Researches, and also having obtained specimens of the large 

 Paroquet killed by Dr. Scully in the Saul forests of Nepaul, I 

 find that Hodgson's name, P. nipalensis, cannot be applied to the 

 species which occurs in the Sikhim Terai, and thence eastwards 

 in Assam, Oachar, and with slight modifications throughout 

 Burmah into Tenasserim, and which has no tinge of glaucous blue 

 on nape and cheeks, but on the contrary refers to the species 

 which exhibits this tinge, and is synonymous with Hutton's name 

 sivalensis, of which it takes precedence. 



No doubt Hodgson figures in his drawings the Eastern form, 

 but he got the specimens I find when at Darjeeling. 



That the birds which he described as nipalensis were really 

 Hutton's sivalensis, is proved first from Dr. Scully's specimens 

 procured in the same locality as Hodgson's types, and, secondly, 

 by the passage in his original description, reproduced below, 

 which I have printed in italics. 



" Very brilliant green, somewhat shaded with verdiier blue on 

 the nape, belly and lining of the wings ; tail paler than the body, 

 and shaded externally with yellow ; below and the tips and 

 inner vanes yellow j throat and a broad half collar black ; the 

 collar completed dorsally with rosy red ; a large longitudinal bar 

 of sanguine lake color down the shoulders, just outside of the 

 scapulars ; bill intense coral red ; iris pale straw ; legs greenish 

 grey; talons dusky ; size large, 22 inches long by 26 wide, and 

 9 to lOoz. in weight. 



" Female rather less, and without any red mark on the wing. 

 Young, at first, wholly green, with a yellowish bill. Inhabits the 

 Saul forest exclusively." 



There remain, therefore, the birds of the Indo-Burmese region, 

 far exceeding the Cingalese eupatrius in size, wanting the 

 glaucous grey blue tinge on the nape and sides of head of true 

 nipalensis (sivalensis), and wanting the huge bill of magnirostris. 



They do not agree perfectly, inter se; the northern (or Sikhim 

 Terai) birds are not quite so long tailed as the southern (or 



