presented by Mr. Hodgson to the British Museum. 455 



pterus and Macacus sinicus (or the Wdndura and Kdlawi of the Cin- 

 ghalese *). 



The Tibetan Lynx I have since described by the name Felis isa- 

 bellina: vide J. A. S. B. xvi. 1178. 



P. 314. For Sorex Perrotellii read S. Perrotettii. 



P. 317. Sylvia indica, Jerdon, proves to be my Phylloscopus gri- 

 seolus, which must therefore now stand as Ph. indicus (Jerdon) : 

 while my MS. nu.u\e flaveolus (cited by Mr. Gray) refers to the spe- 

 cies which was named Motacilla affinis by Capt. Tickell. 



P. 319. For Staparola read Stoparola. 



P. 321. For Emberiza sinops read oinops. 



Mirafra assamica, M'Clelland and Horsfield, v. Plocealauda typica, 

 Hodgson, has another synonym (apud Jerdon), it being the Alauda 

 mirafra, Temminck. 



P. 323. Phalacrocorax leucotis, nobis, is the Graculus sinensis 

 (Lath.). 



P. 383. For Toontoonu (native name) read Toontoonee, or Tuntuni. 



P. 384. For Tas-feek (ditto) read Tao-feek. 



P. 386, 1. 14. After the word " individuals " insert of Halcyon 

 smyrnensis, 



I find that though many females of Palaeornis pondicerianus are 

 black-billed, others have the upper mandible coral-red as in the 

 male, and some again imperfectly so ; the latter being probably a 

 transitory stage from black to red. One in my possession had the 

 upper mandible black for more than a year, when its colour changed 

 rapidly to bright coral-red. 



P. 387 et seq. Jungle-fowls. A remarkable fact which I have ob- 

 served both in the wild Gallus ferrugineus (Gm.), and in G. Sonne- 

 ratii, is that for two or three months in the year (earlier in the 

 former than in the latter species), the nuchal hackles are replaced by 

 a growth of short blackish feathers, nearly as in a pheasant but devoid 

 of brilliancy. This I have seen in no race of domestic fowls, not 

 even in the hybrids produced between the male G. Sonneratii and a 

 common hen ; the hackles of these, when shed at the moulting sea- 

 son, being immediately replaced by others like them. In a curious 

 small Malayan domestic cock I have (without wattles), the hackles 

 fall and leave the neck quite bare for a season, giving him a rather 

 singular appearance. 



Respecting the matrimonial arrangements of the wild G. ferrugi- 

 neus, I have still been unable to satisfy myself whether they are mo- 

 nogamous (as Capt. Hutton affirms) or polygamous to a greater or 

 less extent. Capt. Tickell well remarks : " They dwell in such deep 

 and tigerish jungles as not to be easily watched. I have met with 

 the males and females," he adds, " indifferently together — commonly 

 one male to three or four females. I remark however that just now 



* The Inuus s'denus, which has been generally assigned to Ceylon, is un- 

 known there in a state of nature, though inhabiting (as 1 liavc been assured) 

 the neighbouring provinces of Travancoie and Cocliin, on the mainland of 

 India. 



