1842.] Asiatic Society. 465 



Dr. Horsfiekl strangely describes the P. pulverentulus, Tern., as the female of this 

 species, but we now possess both sexes, and the female only differs from the male in 

 having no crimson moustache, nor on the crown but only on the occiput. This fine 

 species is closely allied to the P. Hodgsonii, Jerdon, Madras Journ. vol. XI. 215, and 

 there admirably figured, but is not quite so large, having the wing but eight inches 

 and a half, and tail but six inches and a half, and it differs in having scarcely any trace of 

 white above the tail, but only a narrow incomplete cross-band just above the coverts ; 

 there is also a very slight lateral margining of this colour to the feathers of the throat, 

 and to the posterior ear-coverts; and the wings inside anteriorly, with the axillaries, are 

 also white; the white of the belly being somewhat deeply tinged with fulvous. The 

 present and our previous specimen are both from Bengal. A much injured skin from 

 Tenasserim has considerably more white about the croup, thus further resembling the 

 magnificent P. Hodgsonii : and I make no doubt that the so called Picus maximus 

 Malayensis, described by Dr. W. Bland in J. A. S. II. 952, refers to no other; the 

 colouring exactly corresponds, if fulvescent be read for "yellow" on the belly and 

 under wing-coverts; but the dimensions there assigned considerably exceed those of 

 our specimens. 



Gr acuta religiosa. 



* Vanga cristata, Vieillot, badly figured in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, VI. 486. 



Euplocomus erythropthalmos : female. 



Captain Bonnevie being desirous of putting this Society in communication with the 

 Collegium Academicum of Christiana, for the purpose of exchanging duplicates of 

 Indian specimens for such as could be procured for us in the North-west of Europe, 

 I have gladly assented to his request by sparing for that body certain duplicate Zoolo- 

 gical specimens, for the most part procured in this immediate neighbourhood, and not 

 required for the Museum of the Hon. Company in London; and I have also furnished 

 him, at his kind request, for transmission to the Norwegian institution, with a list 

 of such desiderata procurable in Northern Europe, as would enrich and add much to the 

 interest of our own Museum, 



From J. J. Athanass, Esq., 



Phcenicopterus ruber : a beautiful adult specimen of this Flamingo, forwarded 

 alive from the Upper Provinces, and which reached us before life was quite extinct, 

 and consequently in a favorable condition for being properly mounted, its plumage 

 being uninjured, with the exception of the wings. 



Also skins of 



Gypaetos barbatus, Storr; considered by Captain Hutton to be a distinct species — 

 G. Himalachanus, J. A. S. III. 22, but which I agree with Mr. Hodgson (Ibid. IV. 

 458,) in inclining to regard as that found in Europe and North Africa, the more 

 especially as among the drawings of the late Sir Alexander Burnes, 1 find one of a 

 specimen devoid of the dark pectoral cross-band, which Captain Hutton presumes to 

 be characteristic of the Lammergeycr of the Himalaya : a splendid adult. 



Circcetus undulatus. 



From Dr. Pearson, 



" Accentor Himalayanus" ? * ; vide J. A. S., ante, 187. 



* Distinct from two species of Accentor recently forwarded to the Society from Nepal by 

 Mr. Hodgson. 



