178 Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. [No. 122. 



men ; and head, cheeks, ear- coverts, nape and sides of the neck, bright 

 rufous : wings underneath partly edged with pale rufous : the upper 

 mandible chiefly horny brown, and the lower pale yellowish ; a few 

 small black vibrissse at the rictus, and legs and feet pale. Described 

 from two specimens received from Bootan. 



16. Keropia striata, G. Gray ; Garrulus striatus, Vigors, P. Z. S., 

 1831, 7, and figured in Gould's Century, pi. XXXVII. I quite agree 

 with Mr. G. Gray with respect to the propriety of arranging this bird 

 among the Crateropodince of Swainson, and would also locate the genus 

 Kitta as another pseudo-corvine member of the same extensive natural 

 assemblage. 



17. Crater opus Nipalensis; Cinclosoma Nipalense, Hodgson, As. Res. 

 XIX. 146. 



18. Cr. chrysopterus ; Ianthocincla ckrysoptera, Gould, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1835, 186. 



In the " Natural History and Classification of Birds," ii. 234, Mr. 

 Swainson has justly identified the Ianthocincla, Gould, (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1835, 47,) with his Crateropus, " published more than four years previ- 

 ously." Mr. G. Gray, however, in his " List of the genera of birds," 

 (p. 27), has ranged Ianthocincla as a synonym of Garrulax, Lesson, 

 and introduces Crateropus as a separate head ; but most assuredly the 

 Cr. Reinwardii of Swainson's ' Zoological Illustrations,' is a thorough 

 Ianthocincla, apud Gould. Mr. Vigors referred the species described 

 by him to his Cinclosoma, now properly restricted to the Australian 

 form exemplified by C. punctatum, v. Turdus punctatus of Latham ; 

 and Mr. Hodgson has also described several species under the ge- 

 neric head Cinclosoma. The form is extensively represented on the 

 Sub-Himalayan regions, both as respects species and individuals. Mr. 

 Hodgson enumerates 14 species as inhabitants of Nepal, of which 5 

 have been described by Mr. Vigors (in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, 55-6, and 

 171), and a sixth, the Corvus leucolophus, Lin .; figured as Garrulus 

 leucolophus in Gould's Century, was judiciously assigned by him to the 

 same group. Since then Mr. Gould has described 5 other species (in 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, pp. 48 and 186-7), which descriptions were 

 unknown to Mr. Hodgson at the time he prepared his paper on the genus 

 published in As. Res. XIX, 143 et seq. (bearing date of publication 

 1836), wherein 8 presumed new species are added to those of Vigors ; 



