1S72.] F. Stoliezka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. 237 



278. Dicrttrtts* albirictus, Hodgs. Very common . 



Average of four specimens, young and old : bill 07 to OS ; wing 5*4 

 to 5*65 ; tail 5*8 to 6"4, tarsus OS inch. 



I have never seen a herd of either cattle, or sheep, or goats, without a 

 number of these birds accompanying it ; they start with the herd in the 

 morning and return with it in the evening. 



The specific name macrocercus is restricted for the Java species. 



292. Leucoceeca aureola, Less. = albofrontata, Frank. Very rare. 



361. Petrocosstphus cyanetts. Bare. 



365. Planesticus atrogularis. Bai*e. 

 (Comp. Journ. A. S. B., 1868, vol. xxxvii, Pt. II, p 35.) 



Bill at front 06 to G"7 ; wing 53 to 54 ; tail 4' to 4"1, tarsus 1-25. 



385. Pyctoris sotensis. Very rare. _. ^. 



Bill 0-43 ; wing 2 "55 ; tail 3 -7 ; tarsus 1 inch. 



438. Chatorhea catjdata. Extremely common. 



459. Otocampsa leucotis. Very common. 



Wing 3-1 to 3-4 ; tail 32 to 35 ; tarsus 075 to 0-8 inch. 



462. Pyc]TO> t ottts chrysorrhoides, Lafr. = pusillus et pseudocafer, 

 Blyth. Very common. 



467. Iora Zeylanica. Very common in low tree jungle. 



Size the same as that given by Jerdon. Males and females had exactly 

 the same colouring, during the winter, but no blaclc above, the hind head 

 and back are, however, in most specimens blackish green. In this stage they 

 appear only to differ from typhia by their trifiingly smaller size. (Compare 

 Hume, Jour. A. S. B., vol. xxxix, pi. ii, p. 117, and Stoliezka, ibid, p. 310). 

 480. Thamtstobia cambayensis. 



(Comp. Journ. A. S. B., 1868, vol xxxvii, Pt. II, p. 40.) 



Extremely common throughout the country. The size is exactly the 

 same as that of the southern form, known under the name fulicata hi India. 

 Male specimens which I shot in February had the upper plumage decidedly 

 rather darker, in fact almost black, tinged with blackish brown, while speci- 

 mens which I shot in November and December are almost entirely brown 

 above, but the upper tail coverts are in all greenish glossy black. It seems 

 to me clear that the two forms, as presently distinguished, merely represent 

 seasonal or local faces of plumage of the one and same species. 



I observe that Gray (Hand-list, I, p. 211) unites them under the name 

 Cambayensis, reserving the name fulicata, Lath., for a South African species. 



* This generic name is retained by G-. E. Gray, and BhucTianga of Hodgson 

 considered as a synonym of it ; but if the birds of the type of D. longica/udabus should 

 at all be distinguished in a separate group from those of the type of D. fwrcabus, 

 Gm. ; Hodgson's name should be retained as a subgenus for them, though I almost 

 doubt that a real necessity exists for it. 



