1843.] Asiatic Society. 177* 



with dingy-brown, retaining some traces of the whitish extreme tips on the lower-part 

 of the back, and more conspicuously on the scapularies and wings. The Chinese 

 female specimen differs so much from the females of P. pandoo of peninsular India, 

 that I cannot regard them as identical in species : its differences corresponding with 

 those of the Chinese male. Head and neck dull slaty with brown margins and paler 

 tips, the latter inconspicuous ; back and scapularies with subterminal dusky bars and 

 whitish edges ; and the dull cyaneous tinge of the upper-parts increasing on the rump : 

 the entire under-parts are much paler than in Indian specimens, being wholly of a 

 dull whitish-fulvous, tinged with rusty on the throat and lower tail-coverts, each 

 feather having two narrow blackish bars, one near the margin, the other central and 

 confined to the vicinity of the shaft. Upon full consideration, I consider the Chinese 

 and Philippine Islands specimens to be of the same species, or Petrocincla Manil- 

 lensis vera. 



A second species appears to exist in the specimens from the Tenasserim provinces, 

 and to this I refer a fine male from Darjeeling, where the collector lately employed 

 by the Society never obtained more than this one example. Judging from the Dar- 

 jeeling specimen (for those from Tenasserim have the tail imperfect), it would appear 

 readily distinguishable from P. Manillensis by the shape of the tail, which (instead 

 of being squared) has its outermost feathers nearly half an inch shorter than the 

 middle ones. The mottlings of the upper-parts are nearly obsolete, and those of the 

 lower-parts but little more developed ; and there would appear to be generally some 

 trace of ferruginous, more or less: in the Darjeeling specimen this is confined to the 

 lateral margins of two or three of the lower tail-coverts ; and successively more deve- 

 loped in two from Tenasserim, as formerly described by me. I shall designate this 

 presumed species P. affinis. 



The third form is the P.pandoo of Hindoostan, which would appear to have never 

 any rufous whatever, and has the tail intermediate in shape to those of the two preced- 

 ing. M. Lesson doubtless refers to this, when he states the P. Manillensis to inhabit 

 India; and with the data formerly before me, I cannot wonder that I also referred it 

 to the same. 



P. 461. The Erythrospiza noticed is certainly the Gros-bec Rose des Indes, or 

 Coccothraustes rosea, Vieillot, of the Diet. Class, d' Hist. Nat., and is rightly identi- 

 fied as such by Mr. Jerdon, who adds to its synonyms^ the " Loxia Madagascariensis 

 and L. totta of English authors" : but the Fringilla rosea, Latham, is given as a 

 distinct species by M. Drapiez. 



P. 462. The specimen referred to Polyplectron Northice of Hardwicke and Gray is 

 recognised by Mr. Jerdon as the female Franeolinus spadiceus, to which the former 

 term may accordingly be attached as a synonym. Vide descriptions of both sexes in 

 the Zoologie du Voyage de M. Belanger. 



P. 463. Carbo albiventer, Tickell, or rather Phalacrocorax albiventer. The speci- 

 fic name, however, I fear is objectionable, from applying only to the immature plum- 

 age of the species, since I incline to identify with it a specimen from Tenasserim in 

 adult plumage, wherein the feathers of the under-parts are only white at base. The 

 colouring of the back in this specimen is nearly as in Ph. carbo; the head and neck 

 dull shining black, slightly tinged with greyish-brown; the throat below the gular 

 skin white, passing above the gape and forward to the eye, where it deepens to light 



