INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 193 



Peatincola, Koch. 

 104. Peatincola capkata. 



Rubetra lucionensis, Brissoiij Orn. iii. p. 442, no. 30, " Isle de Lu9on." 



Motacilla caprata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 335, no. 33 (1766), ex Brisson ; v. Martens, J. f. 0. 1866, 



p. 10, no. 22; Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 63, no. 72. 

 Traquet de I'isle de Luc^on, D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 235. fig. 1 i , fig. 2 ? . 

 Saxicola fruticola, Horsf . Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 157, " Java " (1820) . 

 Saxicola bicolor, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 92, no. 90, i, "Dukhun. 

 Saxicola erythropygia, Sykes, /. c. no. 92, $ . 



Motacilla sylvatica, Tickell, J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 575, "Jungles of Borablium and Dolbhum.-" 

 Saxicola Melaleuca, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83, "Nipaul" (1844) (descr. nulla). 



Hab. Luzon (Jagor). 



The type of the following species is stated by Brisson to have been sent from the 

 Philippines to M. Aubrey. It has not been since recorded as inhabiting these islands, 

 and appears to be restricted to Ceylon and peninsular India. 



Rubetra philippinensis, Brisson, Om. iii. p. 444, no. 3Ij " Philippines." 

 Motacilla (Thamnobia) fulicata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 336, no. 39, ex Brisson. 

 Le Traquet noir des Philippines, D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 185. fig. 1. 

 Autre Traquet des Philippines, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 230. 



ClTTOCINCLA^, Gould. 

 105. * CiTTOClNCLA LUZONIENSIS. 



Turdus luzoniensis, Kittlitz, Kupfert. p. 7 , pi. II. fig. 2, " Luzon " (1832) ; Mem. presentes k TAcad. 

 St. Petersb. vol. ii. pt. 1 & 2, p. 5, pi. 7, "Luzon" (1833). 



Hob. Luzon {Kittlitz). 



' Mr. G. E. Gray (Hand-list, i. p. 266) adopts Cercotnchas, Boie. The genus Cercotrkhas was established by 

 Boie (Isis, 1831, p. 542), without characters, in these words. " Under this name I unite Turdus phcenicopterus, 

 Temm., T. e-ryihropterus, T. macroiirus, Lath., T. tricolor, VieiU., Sax. leucmnpter, Museum Berl." Thus four 

 distinct generic forms are united under one generic title, namely : — 



1. Turdus phoenicopterus, Temin.,=Ampelis pkoenicea, Lath., a Can^pephaga ; type of Cyrtes, Eeichenbach. 



2. Turdus erythropterus. Lath., ex G-nx. = Turdus podohe, L. S. Miiller ; a Saxiooline form near to Thamnobiu 

 (conf. Blanford, Observ. Geol. & Zool. Abyssinia, p. 360, no. 127). 



3. Turdus macrounis, Lath., ex Gm., = Turdus tricolor, Vieill., type oi Kittacincla. 



4. Saxicola hucocampter, Lichteust. Mus. '&ero\.=^ Motacilla fulicata, Linn., type of Thamnobia. 



Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. i. p. 41), following Kuppell (Syst. Uebers. p. 60), adopted the second species named 

 by Boie as the type of Cercotricltas. Messrs. Tiusch and Hartlaub, finding it impossible to recognize the 

 incongruous group which Boie had brought together, appropriated (Viig. Ost-Afi'ik. p. 149) his generic title, 

 re-establishing it as their own, and restricted it to Turdus erythropterus. Lath., and Orgya luctuosa, Lafr. Mr. 

 G. E. Gray, however, has made the third species the type of Cercotrichas and superseded Kittacincla, Gould, 

 an arrangement which cannot be uj)held. 



