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noire de la Cliine of Sonnerat, described J. A. S. XIV, note to p. 

 589, also Hcematornis chrgsorrhoides, Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. &c. 



1845, p. 367, and P. hcemorrhous apud Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. &c. 



1846, p. 1. I have no means of determining upon which, of the two 

 species M. Vieillot first bestowed the name ateicapillus ; but as 

 both cannot bear it in the same genus, I propose to retain ateica- 

 pillus, (Vieillot), for the Chinese bird, and nigeicapillus, (Drapier,) 

 for that of Ce_ylon.* 



P. sinensis, (Gmelin) : Tardus occipitalis, Tern. 

 Obiolus chinensis, Gmelin. 



HlATICULA PHILIPPINA, (Scopoli). 



Teinga alpina, L. ; Te. subabquata, (Gm.), apud nos. XVIII, 

 (280.) 



Buphus caboga, (Pennant). 



Ardeola speciosa, (Horsfield, vera), in summer and winter dress. 



Aedetta sinensis, (Gm.) 



Lartjs euscus, L. 



L. kittlitzii (?), Bruch : Gavia kittlitzii (?), Bonap. 



Thalasseus pelicanoides, (King): Sterna cristata, Stephens (nee 

 Swainson) ; St. velox, Ruppell. Specimens from the Bay of Bengal, 

 the Maldives, and from China, appear to be perfectly identical ; and 

 correspond, so far as can be adjudged, with Buppell's figure. 



Anous stolida, (Gm.) 



Pojdiceps ceistatus, L. "Winter dress. 



P. minob, Gm. (or P. philippensis, Gm., if thi3 be considered 

 separable). "Winter dress. 



EEPTILIA. 



Python molubtjs, (L.) A flat skin, more than 13 feet long 

 without the head, from Pormosa ! 



Bungabus multicinctus, nobis, n. s. Another fiat skin, obviously 

 of a Bungabus, nearly affined to B. easciatus, (Schneider) ; but 

 the golden bands only one-sixth as broad as the black bands, and 

 numbering more than fifty in a specimen 4 it. in length minus the 

 head.f 



* The late Prince of Canine- proposed the generic name Meeopixus for the 

 Ceylon species. 



t Mr. Swinhoe writes, Dec. 8th — "In Davis's 'China,' II, 333, mention is 

 made of a very poisonous striped black and xvhite Snake having reached England 



