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likeness to that of the adult bird, beilig of a reddish brown. 
The corresponding plumage of B hinochetus is interesting in 
that it is more elaborate in pattern and varied in colour than 
that of the adult ; it is, indeed, not altogether unlike that of 
Eurypyga. 
8. Finn on the Birds of the Indian Museum. 
[List of the Birds in the Indian Museum. Part I. FamiUes CorvidcBy 
Paradiseidce, PtilonorhynchidcBj and Ci'ateropodidce. By F, Finn, B.A., 
F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 8vo. Calcutta, 
1901. Pp. i-xv, 1-115. Price 1 rupee.] 
The Indian Museum at Calcutta, formerly the Museum of 
the Asiatic Society of Bengal, is a most important Institution 
as regards >Jatural History, and especially Ornithology, for 
it contains numerous specimens contributed to it by all the 
best-known autliorities on the birds of British India — not to 
mention the many types of Blyth, Jerdon, and other authors. 
It is quite right that a new list of its rich contents should 
be prepared, Blyth^s well-known Catalogue having been 
issued as long ago as 1849. Mr. W. L. Sclater was at work 
upon it when he left India, and, as Mr. Finn tells us in his 
Preface, the manuscript of the present volume was prepared 
under his direction. Mr. Finn's chief task "has, therefore, 
been to see it through the press, after intercalating the 
numerous accessions made since the work was written.''^ 
The instalment of the List now before us deals with 
the Passerine families Corvidae, Paradiseidae, Ptilonorhyn- 
chidse, and Crateropodidae only, which are represented in the 
Indian Museum by 3301 specimens belonging to 416 species. 
About QQ specimens are types, mostly of BIyth. Of these a 
list was prepared by Mr. W. L. Sclater and published in this 
Journal in 1892 (Ibis, 1893, p. 73). 
The only references given in this List are to the volumes 
of the ' Fauna of British India' and of the British Museum 
Catalogue. The specimens of each species are then enume- 
rated, with the localities, authorities, and the Museum Index- 
numbers appended. The distribution of each species is 
shortly stated. 
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