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Heifer, I have designated the latter species of Hornbill — B, subruficollis : the two 

 present no difference in plumage. 



B. leucogaster, Nobis, is identical with B. albirostris, Shaw, erroneously iden- 

 tified by Mr. Jerdon with B. Malabaricus, which is B. monoceros, Shaw. The latter 

 appears to be restricted to Hindoostan and Ceylon, being replaced in Bengal, Assam, 

 and the Tenasserim provinces, by the present nearly allied species, which differs in 

 being smaller, in having the casque much less compressed, the black mark on this 

 being also differently placed, and especially in the colouring of the tail, B. Malaba- 

 ricus having the three exterior rectrices wholly white, and the next chiefly so, while 

 in B. albirostris they are only tipped with white. The specimen of the latter des- 

 cribed as B. leucogaster, was immature. 



P. 923. The Oxylophus described is O. Coromandus. 



Phoenicophceus longicaudatus, Nobis, is the Melias tristis of Lesson; whilst my Ph. 

 tristis described in the Monograph of Cuckoos (XI, 928), would appear to be his M. 

 Diardi, a specific name, however, which yields precedence to Sumatranus of Raffles. 

 These and other emendations and additions to my paper on Cuculidce have been put 

 together as an appendix to that Monograph, which is awaiting publication. 



P. 924. Ianthocincla leucolophos? var., is the Garrulax Belangeri of Lesson. 



Muscipeta Indica vel castanea becomes, with full maturity, M. paradisea ; vide 

 XI, 884. 



P. 925. Ciconia nudifrons, Jerdon, should be C. nudifrons, McClelland, and C. 

 calva, Jerdon; C. immigratoria, Hodgson; and I much suspect C. Javanica, Hors- 

 field, vel C. capillata, Temminck. it is common about Calcutta, where the only 

 additional species of ' Adjutant' is the great C. argala: besides these, there are the 

 C. nudifrons, Jerdon (not of McClelland), in the Indian peninsula, and the C. cris- 

 tata, McClelland, in Assam; also, in the latter country, I am told that there is an 

 ' Adjutant' with a black breast. 

 j/ P. 9/17. For Anthus rufescens? read A. agilis ; and for Motacilla alba, M.leucopsis, 

 ' Gould, vel alboides, Hodgson, — long ago figured by Sonnerat. 



Tadorna Bellonii. Not very uncommon. 



Vol. XI, p. 95. I may here anticipate the publication of my paper on Indian Moles 

 (Talpa), which is awaiting the arrival of some Assamese specimens for examination 

 and comparison, by mentioning that the Sylhet species is very different from those of 

 Nepal and Darjeling, which latter differ, the Nepalese (T. micrura, Hodgson,) in 

 having a short but very distinct tail, whilst the latter ( T. cryptura, Nobis,) has only 

 the merest rudiment of this appendage, as shewn by two specimens of this last in the 

 Society's Museum, one of them being in spirits. The Assamese species appears to be 

 at least allied, if not identical, with that of Sylhet.* 



P. 98. The species of Weasel noticed by the provisional name humeralis, I have 

 since been induced to suspect is identical with Putorius Subhemachelanus, Hodgson, 

 J. A. S. VI, 564, as already mentioned in a note to XI, 280. 



* I have just received a letter from Major Jenkins, Political Agent in Assam, announcing that he 

 has forwarded a specimen of the Assamese Mole in spirits, in obliging compliance with my request 

 of him.— This has since arrived, and appears (so far as can be judged from its external characters) 

 be identical with T. micrura of Nepal ; so that there are two distinct species of this genus in 

 Assam. 



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