156 Scientific Intelligence. [No. 2, 
Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
The following is from Mr. Blyth :— 
T have already elucidated* sundry species of Aigialites (or Ring 
Plover) and may now further add that I have since made out the 
Charadrius pusillus of Horsfield to be the same as 4. ruficapillus, Gould, 
figured in his Rirds of Australia: Horsfield’s specimen being in winter 
dress, and his name of course standing for the species. 
The Indian Neophron (281) will have to rank as N. ginginianus, 
Latham. The Spilornis of Ceylon and of all S. India is the same as S. 
Lilgint, Tytler, and will bear my prior name Spilogaster (J. A. S. 
XXI. 351) being distinct from the Malayan S. bacha, with which Pro- 
fessor Schlegel identifies it. Kalco babylonicus is the PF’. peregrinoides 
apud G. R. Gray, as suggested in p. 282. The Cat noticed as Helis 
macrocelis in p. 283 seems, after all, to be of a different and smaller race 
than one received from Asdm also in the Zoological Gardens. It has 
now been more than three years in the garden, and has only a slight 
fulvous tendency even yet, while the other is much more fulvescent, 
and is also of heavier build. I think that the larger only has the very 
elongated canine teeth. Neither seems to be the true Diardii (vel 
macrocelis) of Sumatra and Borneo; and I suspect that the larger and 
more fulvous animal (which the Society’s Museum has from Sikhim) 
should rank as F’. nebulosa, C. H. Smith, figured in Griffith’s English 
edition of the Régne animal. There is also great variation in the F. 
aurata, Tem. (murmensis, Hodgson, and the young F. Temminckii, 
Vigors.) A rufous specimen in the India Museum has strongly deve- 
loped body-markings, akin in type to those of the macrocelis group ; 
others (alike from Sikhim, Malacca and Sumatra,) are deep rufous 
without trace of body-markings; and thirdly, there is the blackish 
race, which is designated F’. nigrescens, Hodgson, in the second edi- 
tion of the British Museum Catalogue of Mr. Hodgson’s collections. 
These Cats would seem, in fact, to be in process of specialization, 
which is carried on a further stage in the F'. Swinhoei of Formosa, as 
compared with the other races akin to 7. Diardit. Lastly, F. Oharl- 
tom may be a race not strongly specialized apart from #7. marmorata. 
* Asiatic Society's Journal, vol. XXXIV. p. 280. 
