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have the tail more or less forked, but in this species it is most 

 markedly so. But as to the tail being' black below in our 

 bird, it is not even a dark brown. 



It is not nidifica of Gray, which he himself identifies with 

 fuciphaga, Thun. 



It is not brevirostris, M'Clelland, from the Assam hills 

 which, Horsfield, it is true, identifies with fuciphaga, but 

 which 1 venture to sug-gest is neither more nor less than 

 Ci/pselus infiimatits, Sclater, C. tectorum, Jerdon. The following is 

 IVrClelland's original description: Pro. Z. Soc. 1839, p. 155, "H. 

 brevirostris supra nigricans, nitore olivacio, subtus fascescens alts 

 elongafis ; Cauda mediori subfurcata, rostro brevissimo. 



" This species agrees with H. fuciphaga in habit, in proportional 

 length of wing and shortness of beak, and in colour above ; 

 but it is darker underneath, and more than one-third larger ; 

 entire length, six inches." 



No one can compare C. infwmatus with this description, and 

 then become acquainted with the facts, first, that brevirostris 

 is described from Assam ; second, that no other similar bird was 

 met with there by M'Clelland ; third, that infumaius is very 

 common in Assam and is the only bird at all approaching bre- 

 virostris that is to be met with there, without, I think, feeling 

 inclined to accept this identification of mine. 



It is not unicolor, Jerdon, from the Neilgherries, of which I 

 have nine specimens now before me and which is perfectly distinct 

 (of which more anon) alike from Thunberg^s and our 'bird. It 

 is almost needless to say that it is not concolor of Blyth, as this 

 name was merely one applied by him to Jerdon^s Neilgherry 

 birds, before the genus CoUocalia was separated by Gray, on the 

 ground that Jerdon^c name unicolor, as applied to a Cypselus 

 was already pre-occupied by a Madeira species figured by Jardine 

 and Selby, pi. 83. Blyth himself pointed out, J. A. S. XIV, 

 p. 209, that on the institution of the genus CoUocalia, Jerdon's 

 name necessarily revived. 



It is not affinis, Beav., which is of the Linchi type, and either 

 identical with or nearly allied to this. 



It is neither kijpoleuca, spilura, or neglecta (supposing these to be 

 all distinct, which I greatly doubt,) which belong all to the 

 esculenta, L., tj^-pe, with white at the base of the tail feathers. 



It is not leucop/igia or uropygialis, .with snowy white rumps, 

 and it is not spodiopijgia, which also occurs in the Andamans and 

 of which more hereafter. 



It is not troglodytes well figured in Gray and MitchelFs Genera 

 of Birds, pi. 19, the smallest perhaps of the whole group, and 

 with a conspicuous white rump band. 



