316 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. X, 



KEVIEW. 



The book before ns is a penultimate instalment of the Secretary of 

 State's " Fauna " of India (Birds).* 



The first order and family noticed are the broad-bills, which do not 

 occur in the Bombay Province. Then come the woodpeckers, of 

 which we have several, here duly described. One Maratha name for 

 them here given is " Lobar " (smith), which is not as common as the 

 more appropriate " Tokera " (hammerer or pounder), and " Sutar " 

 (carpenter). The latter is given (p. 160) as a name of the Hoopoes. 

 . Their commoner and better name is " Sonar " (goldsmith). It distin- 

 guishes their light and silent picking action as resembling that of the 

 trade, with its toy-tools falling on precious metals ; commonly almost 

 backed by silent compost. 



If the " roll " were not almost unknown to Indian drummers, the 

 woodpeckers would probably have a name from that trade too, as it is 

 one of their favourite bits of music, and not used by any other winged 

 carpenter. 



Their relations, the wrynecks, are not found in Bombay, nor is the 

 Indian honey-guide (indicator), which has not yet shown anybody 

 any honey. 



After these come the barbets. Mr. Blanford restricts the generic 

 name Megalmma to species outside our bounds, but allows us two 

 species of Thereiceryx, apparently a new name of his own. 

 Thereiceryx zeylonicus is now the full style and title of the common 

 Indian green barbet, and we are well rid of inornata^ unnecessarily 

 distinguished as a species of "the Bombay coast." 



The coppersmiths remain Xantliolcema^ but X. indica becomes 

 Hcematocephala, an older name and more descriptive. Nothing is 

 added to our knowledge of it. 



At this point we come to the order Anisodactyli, about whom there 

 has been much difference and discussion, such as would be out of 

 place here. The first of them are the rollers (Coracias), commonly 

 called jays from their blue colouring and noisy bustling habits ; but if 

 any one will look at a European jay's wing, the different arrange- 



* The "Fauna" of British India, induding Ceylon and Burma, joublished under the 

 authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council, edited by W. T. Blanford. Birds, 

 vol. Ill, by W. T. Blanford, F.B.«. London : Taylor and Francis. Bombay : Thacker & Co., 

 &c., &c. 



