1844.] for December Meeting, 1842. 391 



P. 948. Genus Garrulax. G. rufifrons, No. 3. There is also a 

 Crateropus rujifrons, Sw. (' Menag.',) which is probably identical with 

 M. Lesson's species. 



No. 11, G. melanotis. Capt. Phayre sent two specimens with; black 

 ear-coverts, such as I have never seen among numerous examples of 

 G. pectoralis from the Himalaya; but a third, forwarded subsequent- 

 ly, has an admixture of white on the ear-coverts, though less than in 

 the Himalayan specimens : and hence I now think that the Arracan 

 bird had better be regarded as a variety only of G. pectoralis. 



Nos. 13, G. lunaris, and 14, G. ruficollis, are identical, and will 

 retain the latter appellation. The Society has received fine specimens 

 from Tipperah. 



No. 29, G. Delesserti, is nearly allied to G. gularis, No. 8. 



Nos. 25, G. lineatus, and 26, G, setafer, are also, I greatly suspect, 

 identical, in which case the former name must be preserved. 



assigns to it considerably larger dimensions. Lastly, I have to observe that the 

 alleged Chusan specimens referred to Cue. flavus in XII, 944 (note), and the 

 Chrysococcyx chalcites of the same page, and Centropus dimidiatus of p. 945 (note^), 

 were obtained, as I have now much reason to suspect, from the vicinity of Sin- 

 gapore, although the former localities were given to me with much positiveness • 

 certainly the specimens were prepared as the Singapore bird- skins usually are, 

 and one in the same lot which was stated to be South American, proves to 

 be the Malayan Turdus modestus, Eyton, which Capt. Phayre has since procured 

 in Arracan. But to return to Mr* Strickland's notes : the Malayan C. flavus, 

 he remarks, " should more properly stand as C. merulinus, Scopoli ; and the 

 Australian C. cineraceus" (XII, 242) " is very distinct from merulinus, being- 

 much larger and longer in the wing," &c. For the Indian bird he retains the name 

 tenuirostris, Gray. " Cuculus basalis, Horsf., is identical with immature specimens of 

 Chrysococcyx lucidus, from Australia. Phoznicophaus melanognathus, Horsf., has the 

 nostrils narrow, and the lower mandible black : — not Cue. melanagnathus of Raffles, 

 your Ph. viridis" (XI, 927), "which has round nostrils, and a red spot on the lower 

 mandible. The Cuculus sumatranus, Raffles, is also distinct from Ph. Diardi," (No. 

 24 of my monograph, XI, 928, vide XII, 246,) " having the belly and lower tail- 

 coverts rufous, and the nostrils narrow, almost linear, and oblique. I have it from 

 Malacca. Centropus lepidus" (XI, 1102, XII, 945 note) "is larger (not less, as 

 Horsfield states,) than C. affinis, and has the beak stronger and higher. C. affinis is 

 the smallest of all the species, the wing measuring but five inches and three-eighths, 

 and tail six and a half. It is certainly the Cuculus viridis, Scopoli, founded on 

 Sonnerat's Voy. Nouv. Guin., pi. 80. The curve of the hind claws in Horsfield's 

 specimen is only very slight," May not this be C, bengalensis, v. puinilns, XI, 1104, 

 XII, 945? 



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