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referrible to more than 100 species, 20 of which are new to the Museum, and many 

 more equally acceptable. The greater number of them were procured in Upper Ben- 

 gal, or in the hills, but there are some from Malacca, and among these, it is worthy 

 of notice, 4 species of South American birds were received, which are as follow : — 



Galbula ruficauda, Cuv : male and female. 



Pipra rubricapilla, Tern. 



Tanagra azurea ? being the species figured in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vii. 

 490, as the " Azure Tanager" : two specimens, and a 



Xanthornus, apparently the Oriolus Americanus, Gmelin. 



These are strictly forms characteristic of the western continent : though it may be 

 mentioned here, that in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society" for 1836, p. 113, 

 Mr. Burton exhibited a small Himalayan bird referred by him to Pipra, as " the first 

 species of this genus hitherto discovered in those regions;" it might be equally aver- 

 red, on the whole eastern continent, though the oriental genus Calyptomena, Hors- 

 field, is unquestionably allied to Pipra and Rupicola, as also, probably, the Cratai- 

 onyx of Eyton (P. Z. S. 1839, 104). With respect to the Jacamars (Galbula), it is 

 remarkable that Levaillant positively asserts having received his Jacamerops (the 

 G. grandis, Latham,) from the Eastern Archipelago, and Cuvier followed him in con- 

 sidering this as the type of a supposed oriental section of the genus {Regne Animal, 

 i. 448) ; but it has since been ascertained to be South American, like all of its 

 congeners hitherto discovered. 



Among those eastern species which may be noticed, I shall distinguish such as are 

 new to the collection by an asterisk. 



* Paloeornis Malaccensis, Vigors (Zool. Jour. ii. 520), and figured in the volume 

 on Parrots in Jardine's " Naturalist's Library." 



* Falcoluggur, Jerdon (Madras Jour. No. xxiv- 80) ; apparently an adult female of 

 this fine species, which is nearly allied to the Lanner (F. lanarius.) 



Hyptyopus (Hodgson, Jour. As. Soc. 1841, 27, olim .Ba.?a, H. Jour. As. Soc. 1836, 

 777>) lophotes ; Falco lophotes, Tern ; B. syama, Hodgson ; Buteo cristatus, Vieil- 

 lot; Lepidogenys Lathami, J. E. Gray : two fine specimens. 



Circus melanoleucos. 



Alcedo (subgenus Ceryle, Boie,, 1828, Ispida, Sw.,) guttatus ; two fine specimens. 



Dacelo pulchella, Horsfield, male and female; at least I judge what I have termed 

 the latter to be of this species, though differing much in plumage from the male 

 (which is figured in Dr. Horsfield's Zoological Researches in Java) ; there is no 

 blue upon its plumage, the upper parts of which are everywhere barred with rufous 

 on a black ground, these markings being widest upon the wings and tail, and closest 

 and narrowest about the neck; cheeks and ear-coverts like the crown, and under-parts 

 ruddy white, barred with dusky across the breast and on the flanks. Mr. Eyton (in 

 P. Z. S. 1839, 101,) classes this species in Halcyon, but I see no reason to follow 

 his example. 



Merops Sumatranus. 



Napophila (Hodgson, Jour. As. Soc. 1841, 29, olim Bucia, H., Jour. As. Soc. 

 /836, 360,) amicta ; Merops amictus, Tern. 



N. Athertonii, Merops A., Jardine and Selby (III. Orn., pi. lviii); Nyctiornis 

 cccruleus, Swainson : Nopophila (olim Bucia J Nipalensis, Hodgson; Merops cyano- 



