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Two examples in adult plumage. The female {fide Meyer) has the wing a quarter 

 of an inch shorter than the male. Dr. Meyer has this note on one of the labels, " Said 

 to have been introduced from China " — a tradition already recorded by Mr. Swinhoe 

 (Ibis, 1867, pp. 387, 388). There is no difference to be detected between these Luzon 

 individuals and examples from Hainan and Shanghai. 



Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. i. p. 205, no. 968), as in so many other instances, was the 

 author who first cleared up the confusion into which the synonymy of this species had 

 been thrown. His identification oi Pastor cristatellus (Gm.), Wagler(Syst. Av. Pastor, 

 p. 90, no. 14, "China and Java"), with Pastor griseus, Horsf. (=AcridotJieresjava)ncus^, 

 Cab. I. c), is undoubtedly correct. 



Turdus griseus, Gm., apud Bp. (l. c), nee Gm., agrees with the Javan species. 

 Gi'aeula cristatella, L., apud Bp. \op. cit.) is probably Pastor fuscvs, Wagler {op. cit.), 

 of India and Burma, and not, as suggested by Mr. Swinhoe (Ibis, 1867, p. 387), Acri- 

 dotheres siamensis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 308, which is a representative form of the 

 Philippine A. cristatellus, but to be readily distinguished by its pure white under tail- 

 coverts, broadly white-tipped rectrices, and unicoloured bill. 



Merula philippensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 278, no. 35, " Philippines," = Paradisea tristis, 

 Linn. S. N. i. p. 167, no. 3 (1766), ex Briss., the Acridotheres tristis of modern authors, 

 is now well known to be indigenous to India and Ceylon only, although Brisson 

 expressly states that his type specimen was sent to M. Aubrey from the Philippines. 



Stuknia, Lesson. 

 127, Stubnia violacea. 



Rubetra pMlippeiisis major, Brissou, Om. iii. p. 446, no. 32, pi. 22. fig. 3, "Philippines'^ {adult). 

 Le grand Traquet des Philippines, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 230 ; D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 185 



fig. 2. 

 Motacilla violacea, Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 11 (1783), ex D'Aubent. 

 Motacilla pUlippinensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 968, no. 101 (1788), ex Briss. 

 Pastor ruficollis, Wagler, Syst. Av., Pastor, no. 19, "ManiUa" (1829) ; v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, 



p. 15, no. 64. 

 Lamprotornis pyrrhogenys, Temm. & ScHegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 86, " Japan, Borneo " (1842) ; 



Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 78, " Celebes." 

 Lamprotornis pyrrhopogon, Temm. & Scblegel, torn. cit. pi. 46. 

 ? Calornis albifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1861, p. 96, " PhHippines," fide Swinboe, P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 302, no. 217. 



' Daudin (Orn. ii. p. 286, 1800) bestowed the specific title of rjriseus on Le Vaillant's Martin r/ris de fer 

 (Ois. d'Afr. pi. 95. f. 2), which is the same species as Turdus gingiamts. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 362, based 

 on le petit Martin de Giiu/i of Sonnerat (Voy. Indes, ii. p. 194). Horsfield's title of griseus for the Javan 

 Acridotheres was therefore anticipated, and Dr. Cabanis proposed that otjavanicus, which stands. 



