1866.] Scientific Intelligence. 157 
The whole of these constitute a group of H. and 8. HK. Asiatic Cats 
per se, Which have not the peculiar clubbed tail of F. wncia, with 
which Dr. Gray associates them. To the species of birds to be ex- 
punged from Jerdon’s Indian series (p. 282), may be added Otocoris 
penicillata, for which O. longirostris of Kashmir, Kooloo, &c., has 
hitherto been mistaken. O. penicillata of W. Asia is smaller, with 
much longer ear-tufts, and the black of the cheeks is continuous with 
that of the breast. Have I told you that Carpophaga cuprea, Jerdon, 
is well distinguished from C. insignis, Hodgson, having the neck and 
lower parts much more ashy, while both differ from C. badia, 
(Raffles), of Sumatra? Of C. pusilla, nobis, I have seen more spe- 
cimens from §. India, where perhaps it co-exists with the large C. 
@nea; and both cuprea and pusilla are very likely to inhabit the 
mountains of Ceylon. Grauculus Layardi, nobis, (papuensis apud 
Sykes,) of S. India and Ceylon, is very distinct from G. mace of 
Bengal, &c., much smaller, with the wings strongly banded under- 
neath. The Malayan G. javensis is a miniature of G. macez, of the 
same small size as G. Layard. As many as four races have been 
confounded under Pycnonotus jocosus, (.,) a name which must be 
retained for that of China, which I have not seen. The Bengal bird 
will stand as emeria of Shaw (pyrrhotis, Hodgson). The Tenasserim 
and Penang race is monticolus, M’Clelland. That of 8. India will be 
named by Gould, and it has no white markings on the rectrices. In the 
Zoological Gardens are apparently two new species of Pheasant. One 
is a female, of a duplicate race to nycthemerus, being of the true silver 
Pheasant type. The other is a male; very like léneatus of Burma; 
but the markings of the upper parts more resemble those of nycthe- 
merus; it hag no white along the ridge of the tail, and no white 
streaks on the flanks. Some think it a hybrid; but, if so, it can 
only be between lineatus and nycthemerus. The tail, however, is 
shaped exactly as in the former, whereas it should be considerably 
more lengthened, if the bird had nycthemerus for one parent ; and its 
legs also should in that case be larger, and shew some trace of the 
crimson colour of those of nycthemerus. I am, therefore, disposed to 
consider it as a true wild race of Kallij, probably from some more 
eastern part of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, 
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