32 Mr. Blyth — A few Identifications 



mage to purple ; but the purple bird I have only seen from the 

 Malayan region and Southern Tenasserim provinces, and the 

 deep and vivid green only from India and Burma, as far south 

 as Moulmein, where I obtained a specimen. Raffles^s Sumatran 

 bird I know from his coloured drawing of it in the India 

 Museum now at Fyfe House. 



C. orientalis of Horsfield is Eudynamys australis, Swainson 

 (erroneously referred to E. fi,indersi in Gould's ' Birds of Aus- 

 tralia'). This has already been remarked by the late Prince of 

 Canino, who adopts the name orientalis for the Australian 

 species. In the Derby Museum of Liverpool are three examples 

 of E. australis from China collected by Mr. Robert Fortune ; so 

 that this may prove to be the Chinese E. orientalis of Mr. Swinhoe. 

 The Coels I have seen from the Malayan peninsula were, how- 

 ever, of the true Indian species, at least so far as I can re- 

 member ; and as I have long been familiar with both species, I 

 could not well have mistaken them. 



C.fugax, Horsfield, is not the common Indian species, C. 

 varius, Vahl, with which it has been supposed identical, but is 

 erroneously figured as C. sparverioides by Von Schrenck (as 

 already noticed by Mr. Swinhoe), being the Chinese species 

 referred to by Dr. Jerdon as " very similar to Hierococcyx spar- 

 verioides, but smaller" (Birds of India, vol. i. p. 331). 



Harpactes orescius, Temm. This, as obtained by Mr. Wallace 

 in Java, is a conspicuously diff"erent species from the H. ores- 

 cius apud Gould, figured in his first monograph of Trogonida. 

 The latter is common in parts of Burma, and is the H. orescius 

 apud nos [passim), following Gould, of that region. 



Corvus enca, Horsfield. The type-specimen in the India 

 Museum is a young bird in the first or nestling plumage. I 

 consider it to be identical with C. macrorhynchus, Vieillot (nee 

 Temminck), and C. tenuirostris, Moore; the latter erroneously 

 supposed to be from Bombay. This species is not unfrequently 

 contained in Malaccan collections. Very decidedly it is not an 

 Indian bird ; and the skin described by Mr. T. Moore (now in 

 the British Museum) was prepared in the peculiar way by which 

 Malaccan specimens may be generally recognized. In collections 

 from Penang and Malacca the Indian C. culminatus (closed wing 



