APPENDIX I. 503 



that this bird obtained at Moulmein in October 1874, does 

 really belong- to the basalts type. 



I cannot pretend to decide whether there are three or more 

 species of this type, or whether malayanus, Raffles, from Suma- 

 tra and Malacca, basalis, Horsf., from Java, and lucidas, apud 

 Gould, in part, of Australia, are distinct or not. 



To judge from my small series of specimens they run ex- 

 tremely close, and the adults in all are distinguished by having 

 a more or less bronzy brown head and nape, and more or less 

 dull coppery green upper parts, while macidatas has the head 

 and entire upper parts intense deep emerald green (not a bit 

 the light green represented in Mr. Gould's late figure, B. of A., 

 pt. XXX, pi. 3) and xanthorhynchus has all these parts deep 

 puce. 



Now one species of the basalis type does certainly occur in 

 Tenasserim, and this is the same as the bird that occurs in the 

 Malay Peninsula, of which we shot one specimen in Johore, 

 and I propose therefore to include it in our list as 



211 ter.— Lamprococcyx malayanus, Raff. (2). 



Moulmein ; near Tavoy. 



Our specimens answer very fairly to Raffles' original des- 

 cription, which ran as follows :— 



u It is about seven inches in length ; brown above, with a 

 greenish gloss, particularly on the scapulars. The whole under 

 parts are transversely barred with white and brown undula- 

 tions. The wings are long, extending to about fhe middle 

 of the tail ; the coverts edged with ferruginous. The tail con- 

 sists of ten feathers, of which the upper are greenish brown, 

 and the lower barred with brown, black, and white. The bill is 

 somewhat compressed at the base, and the nostrils are prominent. 

 There is a row of white dots above the eyes. 



" Native of the Malay Peninsula." 



This is certainly our bird ; of course basalis, of Horsfield, 

 may be identical, but it is to be observed that in their catalogue 

 Moore and Horsfield (Vol II., Nos. 1031 and 1033) keep the 

 two species distinct. On the other hand no great weight can 

 be attached to this, seeing that to malayanus, they refer fig. I 

 of PI. Col. 102, which unmistakably represents, notwithstand- 

 ing what Temminck says of the bird inhabiting New Zealand, 

 some stage of xanthorhynchus. 



Horsfield and Moore identify basalis with the second figure in 

 the above plate, but this appears to me to represent the young 

 of the Australian species ? plagosus, Latham, which is said to 

 be characterised by having the whole under surface entirely 



