BRACHYPTERYX MONTANA. 



Brachypteryx nigricante-casrulea nitore cano, subtus pallidior, abdomine albido, supra 

 oculos macula alba, dorso alis supra cauda basi hypochondriis tibiisque(mari)badiis. 



Ketek, of the Javanese. 



Brachypteryx montana, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 



Vol. XIIL p. 158. 

 Mountaineer Warbler, Gen. Hist, of Birds hy John Latham, M. D. Second Edition, 



1823, Vol. riL p. 124, N. 138. 



It was remarked, in discussing the natural situation and affinities of the lora 

 scapularis, in the last Number of this Work, that in comparing this bird with 

 Dr. Latham's Sylvis, the second Section, established by M. Temminck in that 

 extensive genus, had more particularly been kept in view. The Brachypteryx 

 montana has again led me to this numerous assemblage of birds ; and I have, with 

 equal solicitude, extended my comparisons to all the sections. T shall therefore 

 premise, to the description of our bird, a concise view of the Sylvise. Several of 

 the more ancient Ornithologists have exceeded the moderns, if not in the correct- 

 ness, at least in the number of their subdivisions. Of these M. Brisson deserves 

 the first notice. His XLth genus, Ficedula, comprises almost all the European, 

 and many of the foreign birds which are arranged in the genus Sylvia of Latham, 

 in the following subdivisions : Curruca, Luscinia, Ruticilla, PhcBnicurus, Cyanecula, 

 Bubecula, Begulus, Ruhetra, Vitiflora, Motacilla, Asilus, Sylvia, and Ficedula. In the 

 last Section, comprising several foreign birds, the lora scapularis (of Number VI. of 

 these Researches) is enumerated with the name of Ficedula bengalensis, and a figure 

 in Edwards is referred to. The latter, although it affords a good representation of 

 the colours of our bird, does not exhibit the character of the bill, which constitutes 

 its remarkable peculiarity, with sufficient distinctness. As this was not indi- 

 cated in the description of the lora scapularis, I here subjoin a note, explaining 

 the omission of the synonyms of several authors.* The different denominations 

 by which it is designated by these, shew clearly that it possesses some peculiarity 



* loRA scAvvhAms.— Ficedula bengalensis, Briss. Oriiith. III. p. 484, N. 47. Motacilla Tiphia, Linn. Syst. 

 Ed. XII. 1, p. 331, N. 13. Green Indian Fly-catcher, Edw. Birds, I. t. 79. This bird has many characters in 

 common with the Motacilla singalensis and M. zeylonica, which are introduced by Gmelin in the Xlllth Edition of 

 the Systema Naturae, from the ISth and 32d Plates of Brown's Illustrations of Zoology. In the most extensive 

 catalogue of birds that has yet appeared in this country, the Motacilla Tiphia, Linn., and the M. zeylonica, Gmel, 

 (the Ceylon Black Cap of Brown), are considered as the same bird;' the specific character of Dr. Latham, therefore, 

 excluding the lora scapularis, my attention was not directed to the Synonyms.. 



