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Una (v. hiru) ; whereas A. grandis is like A. ispida and A. ben- 

 galensis] but much larger, with the coronal spots of a paler and 

 different blue, and no rufous on the ear-coverts. Length of 

 bill to forehead 2in. ; of closed wing 3|in. The specimen 

 described appears still to be unique. 



The Chrysocolaptes from Ceylon, noticed in the ' Ibis,' 1863, 

 p. 267, is C. carlotta, v. Indopicus carlotta, Malherbe. 



Picus analis, Horsfield. To this species I find must be re- 

 ferred the P. pectoralis, nobis (J. A, S. vol. xv. p. 15), which I 

 obtained out of a collection of otherwise Australian speci- 

 mens *. 



Cuculus canorus apud Horsfield is, of course, C. canoroides, 

 S. Miiller, v. canorinus, Cabanis; and is also identical with C. 

 optatus, Gould, of North Australia, which has erroneously been 

 assigned to C. micropterus of India. To the same race must 

 doubtless be referred Mr. Swinhoe's " second series ''of Cuckoos, 

 noticed by him under C canorus, " with fulvescent under-parts, 

 banded with much broader bars more widely set [than in true 

 canorusl, and with the axillaries nearly barless." Mr. Hodg- 

 son's specimens referred to micropterus, in the India Museum, 

 I find to pertain to the similar but considerably larger race or 

 species, C. striatus, Drapiez (apud Jerdon, C. affinis, A. Hay). 

 The- true C. micropterus I observed abundantly in the Tenas- 

 serim provinces during the rainy season ; and there is a speci- 

 men of it in the Derby Museum of Liverpool, from Java : so 

 that either race may yet prove to be the veritable C. striatus of 

 Drapiez. 



C. basalis, Horsfield, is Chrysococcyx lucidus (Gm.)j and there 

 is an example of the same received in a collection from Singa- 

 pore (that contained only Malayan specimens) in the Calcutta 

 Museum. 



C. malayanus, Raffles (Tr. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 286), appears 

 to be the young of Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus, Horsf., in the 

 green plumage which precedes the amethystine-purple garb, in 

 which and in the hepatic phases I know not how to distinguish 

 it from C. hodgsoni, Moore ; for I have seen specimens moult- 

 ing from dullish shining green and more or less hepatic plu- 



* P. andamensis, nobis, I have lately seen in a collection from Sumatra. 



