118 NOTES. 



" C. corrugatus (Tern. P. C. 520*), the head being now in the 

 " possession of Lord Walden." 



Lord Walden, as Editor, passes this without comment, and 

 it is to be presumed that he concurs in this identification. 



But the more I consider the question the more difficult it 

 seems to me to accept this view. 



Major Godwin-Austen is a very careful describer, and his 

 description will be found quoted, S. F., Vol. IV., p. 493. f 



Let any one read that description and say whether it is 

 reconcilable with C. corrugatus. Both sexes of this species 

 were figured and described by Temminck in the Planches 

 Coloriees — the male as corrugatus, PI. 531, and the female as 

 gracilis, PI. 535. 



The female is entirely black, with greenish reflections, only 

 the terminal Jths of the tail is a kind of dull chestnut. 



The male is similar, except that the black of the body and 

 wings and basal portion of tail is said to be duller, and that the 

 whole of the sides of the head aud neck and the front of the 

 latter are pale isabelline or fulvous white. 



How can Major Austen's description, above referred to, 

 possibly apply to any stage of this bird ? 



It is to be hoped that Major Godwin-Austen will himself 

 look into this question, and either vindicate the distinctness 

 of his namesake, or explain the extraordinary difference in plum- 

 acre between the specimen described by him, and the types des- 

 cribed by Temminck. 



The matter is one of some importance. Frankly I do not, on 

 a priori grounds, believe in the occurrence of Craniorrhinus 

 corrugatus in the Naga Hills. 



It is contrary to all experience that a Malayan (Bornean, 

 Sumafcran and Malaccan) bird like this should occur in the 

 Naga Hills and not in the intervening Tenasserim Hills, and we 

 have failed entirely as yet to obtain any trace of it in these 

 latter. 



At page 36 of Vol. I., I described the tail feathers of a 

 Polyplectron, clearly differing alike from tibetanus and bical- 

 caratum. I proposed that the bird, if new, should stand as 

 G. intermedins. 



At that time I had not access to Mr. Elliot's splendid mono- 

 graph of the Phasianidce. Recently studying this work, I have 

 discovered that the feathers I referred to must have belonged 

 to P. Germainij Elliot, Ibis. 1866, p. 56. 



* This should be 531.— A. O. H. 



f In this description there is a slight misprint. In the 4th line there should be a 

 full stop after " coverts." — A. O. H. 



