394 Appendix to Mr. Blyth's Report [No. 149. 



the stores of the Zoological Society, which had a black bill, but the tail 

 was glossed as in the yellow-billed species. 



P. 990. Buceros pucoran should be B. pusaran, Raffles. Speci- 

 mens of both it and B. plicatus have lately been received from Arra- 

 can, and the former proving to have a yellow gular skin, may now be 

 considered as sufficiently determined. 



P. 998. B. gingalensts, Shaw. This I have since examined, and it 

 seems, with some others, (as the African B. limbatus and B. flavirostris 

 of Ruppell,) to constitute a particular group of Hornbills, which may 

 some day rank as a subgenus. 



" Halcyon smyrnensis, var. ? albogularis" is identified by Mr. 

 Strickland with H. gularis, (Kuhl) ; H. ruficoilts, Sw. ; and H. 

 ?nelanoptera, Tem. : a species which was procured in the Philippine 

 Islands by Mr. Cuming. 



P. 1000. Picus (Gecinus) viridanus, Nobis. The female has the 

 crown and pileus wholly black, the ear-coverts and sides of the neck 

 are darker than in the male, and the entire plumage is more dingy, 

 with the marking of the under-parts less defined. 



P. 1005. Picus (Chrysocolaptes) melanotus is the Dendrocopus 

 Elliott of Mr. Jerdon's catalogue, and perhaps also identical with 

 P. strenuus, Gould, obtained by Dr. McClelland in Assam. For the 

 present it will range as Chrysocolaptes Elliott. The female differs 

 in having the frontal feathers to above the eye broadly tipped with 

 whitish, and the crest glistening bright yellow, with a tinge of red at 

 its extremity. 



P. 1008. The two Barbets mentioned are the Bucco viridis, Gm., 

 and B. zeylanicus, Auct, v. caniceps, Franklin, v. lineatus, Tickell. 



P. 1010. The Fringilla agilis, Tickell, Pipra squalida, Burton, and 

 Parisoma vireoides, Jerdon, prove to be the same species, which must 

 be distinct from Pardalotus pipra of Lesson, to judge from the generic 

 characters which he assigns to the latter, upon which is founded his 

 genus Idopleura, Rev. Zool. &c. 1838, p. 44.* The present species 

 I distinguish as follows : — 



Piprisoma, Nobis, n. g. Bill short and subcorneal, acutely trian- 

 gular as viewed from above, the ridge of the upper mandible angulated, 



* There is a Pardalotus maculatus, Tem, p. c. 600, from Sumatra and Borneo, 

 which may perhaps be referable to either Idopleura or Piprisoma. 



