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



Cr. lunaris ; I. lunaris, McClelland and Horsfield, Proc. Zool .Soc, 

 1839, 160. 



Cr. puniceus, Nobis : length 8 inches, of wing from bend 3£ inches, 

 and middle tail-feathers 4 inches, the outermost 2f inches ; bill to fore- 

 head f inch, and to gape J inch ; tarsi 1^ inch : streak through the eye, 

 ear-coverts, sides of the neck, exterior margins of the primaries, and of 

 the terminal portion of the secondaries and longest tertiaries, with the 

 lower tail-coverts, glistening crimson : rest of the plumage a rich brown, 

 rather paler beneath, and tinged with rufous on the wings ; the tail dusky 

 above, each feather tipped with rufo -ferruginous, and the lateral ones 

 more broadly ; beneath ruddy : feathers of the crown elongated, forming 

 a lax crest as in various other species ; those on the sides of the crown 

 margined laterally with black, forming a superciliary streak : secondaries 

 black interiorly, and partly margined with light grey. Bill dusky, and 

 legs apparently brown : locality uncertain. 

 ^f//vt^ toc*^ Cr. leucogenys, Nobis. More nearly allied to Cr. leucolophus than is 

 Jcm / 1 ' Cr. albogularis, but crestless, though the frontal feathers stand erect 

 and rigid. Length lOf inches, of wing 4^ inches, and middle tail 

 feathers 5£ inches, the outermost 1 inch shorter ; bill to forehead 1 inch, 

 and to gape If inch; tarsi 1£ inch. Crown, occiput, neck, and under- 

 pays, dark ash-colour; the forehead, lores, orbital region, streak from 

 the eye backward, feathers at the base of the lower mandible, and the 

 throat and fore-neck, black, as likewise the tip of the tail; ear-coverts 

 white, and a little of this posterior to the black on the forehead : rest of 

 the upper parts, with the thighs, vent, and lower tail-coverts, passing 

 forward on the flanks, dark greenish olive-brown: primaries edged with 

 greyish, and slightly albescent tips to the under surface of the outer tail 

 feathers : bill dusky, and legs apparently greenish yellow. From Upper 

 Bengal. 



Besides these 18 species, two others have been described by Mr. 

 Jerdon from the Neilghierries, as Cr. cachinnans (Madr. Jl., No. XXV, 

 255, and there figured), and Cr. Delleserti (Ibid, 256) ; but I am 

 unaware of any having been observed on the Malabar range, nor is any 

 species noticed in Mr. Ey ton's catalogue of a large collection of bird- 

 skins from the Malay peninsula (P. Z. S., 1839, 101, et seq,) ; neither 

 among the Turdi (comprising various modern genera) of Dr. Horsfield's 

 list of Javanese birds (Lin. Trans., XIII, 147, et seq.), and the 



