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absence in the drawing of any trace of the narrow white tips 

 to the earlier primaries, always more or less conspicuous in 

 feddeni ; fourth, the color of the legs and feet, which iu crawfurdi 

 are carefully shown as lead color, with the soles and the back 

 of the tarsi pale yellow, while in feddeni these parts are all 

 uniform lead color; fifth, the specimen figured must have been 

 either a male or a female ; if it was a male it agrees \i\ih. feddeni 

 in having the red of the head extending to the forehead, but 

 differs in entirely wanting the huge red mandibular patch; if 

 it was a female it agrees \iii\x feddeni in wanting this mandi- 

 bular patch, but diff'ers from it in having the entire crown and 

 almost the whole forehead red, whereas in female feddeni only 

 the occiput and quite the posterior portion of the crown are red. 

 There can be no doubt, I think, that crawfurdi represents an 

 as yet undiscovered species of this genus of the javensis type 

 with the black rump and upper tail-coverts, and that our Bur- 

 mese species must bear the name of Thriponax feddeni, Blan- 

 ford.'^ It is quite true that on the strength of Jerdon^s remarks, 

 Birds op India, I, 285, Cabanis ( Mus. Heine, Vol. II, Picidse, 

 p. 105, noie^ named the Pegu bird T. jerdoni, but the page on 

 which this occurs was onXy printed on the 15tli July 1863, and 

 the paper itself was not published till January 1864, while 

 Blyth's description was read, I believe, in 1862, and was pub- 

 lished in April 1863. 



I DO NOT know whether the plumage of old adults of 

 JButorides javanicus, {chloroceps, Hodgson) has ever been noted. 

 It is quite sufficiently distinct to lead any one to suppose that 

 they had got hold of a new species. 



In the ordinary adult, such as we most commonly procure 

 them, the whole neck all round, breast, and rest of the lower 

 parts including wung lining, are grey. There is a broken white 

 stripe down the centre of the throat continued into the middle 

 of the breast, a white stripe behind the eye, and an obscure 

 ■white stripe at the base of the lower mandible ; more or less 

 of the lower mandible is yellowish horny, and all the wing- 

 coverts and secondaries are conspicuously margined with pale 

 buff, buflFy white or occasionally on part of the wing white. 



In the old adult the neck all round, breast, and lower parts 

 are a dusky sooty grey with a reddish tinge on the breast, 

 becoming a chocolate brown on the abdomen, vent, &c., includ- 

 ing wing lining. There is no white stripe down the middle of 



* Though often quoted as T. feddeni, Blyth, even by Mr. Blanford himself in tha 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 464j;Blyth himselif, when describing the species, J.A.S. B., 1863-75, gives 

 Blanford as the authority for the name feddeni, and the name must, therefore, stand 

 as Blanford's. 



