162 THE BIRDS OF THE WESTERN HALF 



This bein^ so, our list of the birds of India must be altered, 

 and under 930 bis, leucoptera, Bodd., substituted for pmsi»osceZi«, 

 Swinhoe. 

 952. — Dendrocygna javanica, Horsf. 



[Kussoom.] 



991. — Sterna sumatrana, RaffL. 

 [Tonka.] 



Notes on, and corrections to, the First List. 



It may be well to note that, although there is probably no 

 doubt that they do occur, we have never yet, in any part of the 

 Peninsula, come across specimens of either Otogyps calvm or 

 Gyps indicus. 



Note, that in the first list the two names, 31. — Aquilapennata, 

 and 82. — Neopus malaiensis, ought both to have been printed in 

 italics^ as both occur elsewhere in the British dominions. 



We mentioned in our list that Davison felt sure that he 

 had seen 40. — Pandion haUaetus, Lin., along the coast. Since 

 then a fine specimen has been shot at Singapore, which is in the 

 Singapore Museum. 



No. 128. — For amauropferus read amauroptera. 



There ought not to have been a star prefixed to 135 his A. — 

 Alcedo euryzona, Tem., as we have never yet met with a King- 

 fisher of this type in the Malay Peninsula. 



450 A. — Criniger theoides, Hume. 



We obtained a male and female of this species, both precisely 

 like the type, at Klang. The species seems a very distinct one, 

 and as it is not confined, as we thought it might be, to Johore 

 and the eastern side of the Peninsula, it seems strange that it 

 should hitherto have escaped notice ; yet I can find no descrip- 

 tion at all answering to it. 



451 quint A. — Euptilosus euptilosus, Jard. and Selb., III. Orn., 

 New Ser., pi. 3, 1836. 



The authors by the way call this Brachypus euptilosus. 



I entertain no doubt that the specimen here figured was one 

 of Criniger tristis, Blyth. (Ibis, 1865, p. 47.) 



We have specimens in which the rump feathers are dis- 

 arranged, presenting precisely the appearance depicted in the 

 plate. The dimensions and color of the plate, and the des- 

 cription, so far as it goes, agree perfect!?/ with tristis. The sole 

 point which might lead to a doubt of this identification is, that 



