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*^'' Jim Croiv," '' Poll?/ put the Kettle On" and other familiur airs 

 capitally, 



Palseomis Osbeckii. 



* Syn. P. barbatus ... Swains. 111. Orn. Daub. PI. 



Enl., Blyth Cat. 



Ps. barbatus ; Ps. Pondi- 



cerianus . . . Gmel. 



Ps, bimaculatus ... Sparrm. 



Ps. Javanicus ... Osbeck. 



Ps. Osbeckii ... Latham. 



P. nigrirostris ... Hodgson, female. 



P. modestus ... Fraser, P. Z. S., young female. 



Bolurus barbatus ... Bonap. Rev. Zool. 



Ps. mystaceus ... Shaw. Hodgs. and Gray, Cat. 



P. Osbeckii ... Horsf. Cat. 



Mordna, Kajla, Hind ; Im7'it BJiela, Nipal ; Bettet, Java, 

 Hab,, hilly pai'ts of Bengal, Nipal, Assam, Sylhet, Arracan. 

 Tenasserim, Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 

 (Apud Blyth.) Kumaon Terai ; known in North West Hima- 

 laya as Madan Gour. 



I follow Dr. Horsfield in assigning this name in preference to 

 either P. javanicus, P. himactdalios , P. harhatus, or a host of other 

 synonymes, partly because, as he says, M. Osbeck was the dis- 

 coverer of the species aud the first to give it a name (1757,) and 

 because it is not, according to observers confined to Java. At 

 the same time I much doubt whether the bird of Kumaon and 

 Nipal, belongs to this species, deeming it more probable that 

 these are distinct from the southern bird. It does not appear to 

 occur to the westward of Kumaon and is brought thence to 

 Mussooree for sale. The bird-catchers insist upon the black- 

 billed bird being distinct from the red billed, while at the same 

 time they completely refute their own statement by acknow- 

 ledging that both are procured from the same nest. 



The nestling or half-fledged birds are brought to Mussooree in 

 the end of May or early in June, so that allowing for the journey, 

 the breeding season would appear to be March and April. 



* This synonymy cannot possibly be accepted. The species Capt. Hutton refers 

 to is, I think, F.fasciatus, Miill. The Javan bird Javanicus, Osb., Osbeckii, Lath., is 

 distinct, while the Tenasserim bird, melanorhynclms, Wagler, as also the Boruean 

 bird, are likewise probably equally so. — Ed., S. F. 



