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It would seem to be the commonest species of the archipelago. 

 Wallace has also G. poliocephalus from Java. In the British Museum 

 there is a Nipal specimen of what seems to me a small race of H. 

 sparverioides, which I have named nisoides : wing 7J in. — Of H. 

 nisicolor I have now seen several specimens. H. strenuus, Gould 

 (7>. As.), I think doubtfully separable from sparveroides ; and his 

 Jiyperythrus is just the adult of Horsfield's fugax, which I consider to 

 be distinct from the Indian varius. The fugax I now recognise as 

 II. flamveniris, (Scopoli. Syn. C. radiatus, Gm. ; H. pectoralis, Caba- 

 nis, and H. Jiyperythrus, Gould, — the adult; and C. fugax, Horsf., 

 sparveroides apud von Schrenck, — the young.) — From China, Philip- 

 pines, Borneo, and Java. My Geocichla dissimilis is Turdus chrysolaus, 

 Temm., nee cardis (Jerd. No. 358). The Tragopan Duvaucelii, Temm., 

 is Pucrasia castanea, Gould ; and its true habitat probably Kashmir 

 (Kdfiristan being altogether out of the question). I suspect that 

 nipalensis, Gould, is merely a hybrid between it and the common 

 Himalayan species, Arhoricola. I have made out a list of 12 species 

 of this group ! Tarnix Dussumierii (verus) = Sykesi ; and T. Dussu- 

 mieri apud Jcrdon must stand as tanchi, B. Ham. (v. joudera, Hodg- 

 son). Casarca leucoptcra, nobis, is Anas scutulata, Mtrller. 



This must do for the present. I may add that the large striped 

 Derbian Eland has a very different form of ear-conch from the common 

 Eland, broad like that of the Kandoa, instead of lanceolate as in the 

 bumped cattle. This is a notable distinction. 



Note on the Peura Patridoes (Arhoricola, Hodgson). This groud 

 of hill Partridges, with long (or moderately long) straight claws and 

 Bpurless, is greatly developed in the jungle-clad hills of S. E. Asia 

 and its islands, where probably several species yet remain to be 

 discovered. I think we can already enumerate — 



a. With the throat well feathered. 



1. a torqueola. (Tern., p. c. 462-3.) The only species known to 

 me in which the sexes present a marked difference of plumage. 

 Himalaya. 



2. a. rufogularis, nobis. S. E. Himalaya (at a lower altitude 

 than the preceding race,) and also the Tenasserim mountains. (J. A. 

 S. XXIV, 270.) 



