NOTES. 409 



English ornithologists, if I am correctly informed, accept as 

 the true segetum, was a good species distinct from the true 

 segetum. 



But the more I look into the works of such authors as I have 

 access to, the more hopeless seems the confusion ; and it is to be 

 hoped that some European ornithologist will, with the aid of 

 their grand museums and libraries, work out the whole of this 

 group. I confess that I am unable to come to any conclusion 

 on the subject here. 



Bltth and other ornithologists have identified our Bur- 

 mese Hemilcphus feddeni, Bianford apud Blyth, J. A. S. B., 

 XXXII, p. 75, with Pious Ckawfurdi, J. E. Gray, Griffith's 

 English edition of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom Birds, Vol. II, 

 p. 513. 



Not haying this latter work to refer to I had adopted this 

 identification. Having now referred to Gray's plate and 

 description, I may say at once that this identification cannot 

 be adopted. 



I must first explain that Mr. Gray's plate and description 

 are taken from one of the pictures prepared from fresh speci- 

 mens by a native artist for Mr. Orawfurd, Junior. From a 

 similar picture was taken the plate and description of the 

 (until recently) unknown Geociohla avensis \2iie\j re-discovered 

 by us in the Malay Peninsula, vide S. F., VIII., p. 38 et seq. 



The plate of avensis, though stiff and inartistic, is a very 

 faithful one, and there is therefore a strong presumption in 

 favor of the accuracy of the plate of Ficus (Thriponax) 

 orawfurdi. Now Mr. Gray's description of crawfurdi is as 

 follows : — 



"The whole upper part, except the crest, is deep dark brown, 

 sprinkled with grey on the sides of the neck ; across the breast is 

 a large lunuled patch of slate color with small dark waves ; 

 the belly is yellow with the like crescent-shaped spots, and 

 the crest is deep red.'' 



Now the plate accurately corresponds with this description. 

 The bird is not black on the back wings and tail, but deep 

 brown ; the wings are distinctly separated so as to show the 

 centre of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and these are 

 all blackish brown, whereas in crawfurdi the lower back and 

 rump are uniform yellowish white. This alone destroys the 

 possibility of the identity of feddeni and crawfurdi. But there 

 are many other points of difference. First the general color of 

 the bird already referred to ; second, the broad slaty pectoral 

 band, of which there is no trace in feddeni ; third, the entire 



