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tlie same time declaring that this is perfectly represented bj 

 Fl. Enl. 748, fig. 2, in which the wing is shown as 3'3 I 



The whole thing needs elucidation. All that is certain is, 

 that, first Yungipicus canicapillus, Blyth, occurs throughout 

 Eastern Bengal, Assam, Pegu, Tenasserim, the Malay Penin- 

 sula, and North-West Sumatra, and that Y. aurantiiventris, 

 Salvadori, (Atti. R. Ac. Sc. Tor., Ill, 524, 1868, and U. di B., 

 p. 41, Tav. IV. f. 2) is doubtfully distinct (vide S. P., VI., 500) ; 

 that second we Iiave in the Malay Peninsula a second smaller 

 species which corresponds absolutely with Wagler's description 

 of variegafus, and Malherbe's picture of this same species (which 

 shows the wing as far as can be judged as 2"88) ; that third 

 this may be fusco-alhidus, and might have been assumed to be 

 identical with sondiacus, of Wallace, did it not disagree in color- 

 ing with Malherbe's figure of his moluccensis, which Wallace 

 himself states to represent his sondiacus ; and, fourth, that 

 Wallace's statement that the wing of true moluccensis is only 

 2'25 requires to be reconciled with Buffon's original figure, in 

 which the wing is shown as 3'3. 



* 166 bis. — Chrysocolapies strictus, Horsf. 



[Tonka.] 



In my first list I entered C. sultaneus, Hodgson, doubtfully, 

 and remarked that the Malayan bird would probably prove to 

 be C strictus, of Horsfield. 



We have now obtained two specimens, males, clearly I think 

 referable to this species. They are fine adults, the wings mea- 

 sure 6*15 and 6'3, and the bills at front 1*8 and 1-95, respectively. 

 They are clearly too small for sultaneus, in which, in the smallest 

 specimens, the wings are not less than 6*7, and which in fine 

 adult males, like the present, run up to 7'45. In which the bills 

 at front do not, in any adult, fall short of 2*0, and in fine adult 

 males run up to 2 •45. But these Malayan birds are absolutely 

 inseparable from the Southern Indian birds, which in my list 

 of the " Birds of India" (Vol. VIII., p. 15), I have recorded as 

 C. delesserti, Malh. This name must now be suppressed, and 

 that of strictus, of Horsfield, substituted. Malberbe himself says 

 that he has seen numbers of strictus sent home by Jerdon from 

 Southern India. What bird Malberbe intended to separate 

 under his name delesserti neither his plates nor his description 

 enable one to make sure, but I now believe that the specimens 

 he had got hold of must have been the somewhat intermediate 

 race which inhabits Burma, and which, though running larger 

 than strictus, both of the Malay Peninsula and Southern India, 

 is yet decidedly smaller than the true sultaneus of the Himalayas. 



