APPENDIX. 871 



Vol. l, p. 279, No. 164, bis.— Yungipicus gymnophthalmos, 



Blyth, P. cinereigula, Malherbe. From Southern India and 

 Ceylon. This is the dark race alluded to by me at the top of 

 the page as occurring in Malabar. 



„ p. 330, No. 206 — I have lately procured a specimen of this 

 rare Cuckoo at Darjeeling, where it is called, by the Lepchas, 

 Ding-pit-pho. 



„ p. 411, No. 266. — Tephrodornis grisola. This is the same as 

 Eyloterpe philomda, Temminck, according to Blyth, (in epist.) 

 and is ranked, says he, by Wallace as a Pachycephala. I can 

 hardly assent to that. 



„ p. 427, No. 278, bis. — DiCPUrUS longUS, Horsfield. Besem- 

 bling D. macrocercus, but with a much longer tail and the white 

 rectal spot generally absent. Length of one 12 J inches ; ext. 

 18 ; wing 6 ; tail 6 ; another killed in Purneah was 13 inches 

 long ; ext. 18 | ; wing 5| ; tail 7|. 

 Whilst travelling through Dacca and Sylhet, I wrote to Mr. Blyth 

 that 1 thought the ordinary King Crow of those districts was 

 different from the common one. That gentleman writes me 

 from London that JD. longus is barely distinguishable from 

 the common Bengal species. Now in Southern and Central 

 India and the N. W. Provinces, specimens are never obtained 

 with nearly such long tails as in the dimensions given above, 

 and the rictal spot is always present. The only conclusion that 

 I can come to is that the Eastern race is D. longus, and the 

 Peninsular, macrocercus ; and that the two races intermix in 

 Bengal, as the Boilers are known to do. This species extends 

 West as far at all events as Purneah. 



,, p. 451, No. 291. — Leucocirca fuscoventris apud Sykesand Adams 

 turns out to be my pecloralis, as was at once seen by Mr. Blyth 

 on inspecting the specimens in the Museum of the late E. India 

 House. It will be noticed that I had some doubt in my mind 

 as to the Bengal bird occurring so far west. I doubt, however, 

 that L. pectoralis is nearly as common as albo-frontata, and 

 suspect it will chiefly be found on the higher Ghats. 



„ p. 481, No. 323, bis., — Erythrosterna parva. Mr. Blyth writes 

 me that Sykes' species (Cat. 91) is true parva, distinct from 

 E. Imcura. 



