NOTES. 517 



separate so many of the species of this group can be fully 

 recognized. 



Friends are continually reporting to me as novelties, 

 matters, that though pointed out by me ten years ago in the Ibis 

 or elsewhere, are not recorded in Jerdon, and have not been 

 noticed in Stray Feathers, and are hence unknown to the mass 

 of Indian ornithologists. 



One of these is, that Corvus comix, the Royston Crow, the 

 Hoodie Cra* of Scotland, is extremely common during the 

 winter in the extreme N. W. Punjab, Trans-Indus, occasionally 

 occurring as a straggler, a little further east, Cis-Indus. 



It has been usual of late years to designate the Southern 

 Yellow-naped Woodpecker, Chrysophlegma wanthoderus, (Mal- 

 herbe). Jerdon and Blyth both called it by some oversight 

 C. chlorophanes (Vieillot), but it seems generally admitted that 

 Vieillot never bestowed any such name on it, so that that name 

 cannot stand. 



The first name really applied to the species was chlor ig aster t 

 by Jerdon, in his second Supplement in No. 31, the December 

 1844 number of the Madras journal of Literature and Science, 

 page 138, and by this name the bird must stand. 



No doubt Malherbe's British Museum name for this species 

 dates from. 1844, but it was not published, and remained a 

 MSS name until it was published towards the end of 1845, 

 in the Revue Zoologique, page 402. Even, admitting as I have 

 been told that No. 31 of the Madras journal, though dated 

 December, did not actually issue until February 1845, Jerdon's 

 name still has precedence of Malherbe's. 



Mr. Leqgb in His charming history of the " Birds of Ceylon/' 

 calls our Indian Hoopoo, U. nigripennis, Gould, with 1856 as 

 date of publication, but page 725 of Moore and Horsfield's cata- 

 logue was not published until after January 1858 (see date 

 on page 752), while Reichenbach's name ceylonensis^ which 

 I suppose must stand, dates from 1851. 



It seems to me somewhat doubtful whether GmehVs name 

 ought to be retained for the Crested Black and Chestnut Bun- 

 ting that we now call Melophus melanicterus. He thus describes 

 the species : — 



" Fringilla nigra, alarum caudaeque margme ferrugineo ; ab- 

 dominis maculis paucis albis."" 



