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plumes and under tail-coverts are pure white like the rest, and there is no frontal band, 

 as in the others. 



2. J. Bengalensis. Little Black and Orange-coloured Indian Hawk of Edwards. 

 Length about six inches to six and a half, the wing four to four and a half. Throat, 

 belly, thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts, deep ferruginous; breast slightly tinged 

 with the same : superciliary line white and very broad, crossing the forehead, and 

 continued downward to the neck-spot, which is also large and nearly or quite con- 

 tinued across the nape : rest as /. cozrulescens. Inhabits Nepal. 



3. 7. coerulescens, Auct. Considerably smaller than the two preceding, with the 

 black of the sides continued over the whole outside of the thighs : superciliary line, 

 neck-spot, and belly, often more or less sullied with rufous, and the white of the breast 

 less pure than in the first species Inhabits the Malay countries. 



4. J. erythrogenys, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 96. Philippine Islands. 



P. 790. " Ceyx tridactyla, Lacepede, Far." Is this C. purpurea, Lesson, from 

 Pondicherry ? The latter can hardly be C. microsoma, Burton, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 89. 

 " Hab, in India Maderespatana." 



P. 797. Anthus Malayensis ; vide p. 885. 



Indian and Malayan Oriolis. In Mr. Vigne's list of collection of birds procured by 

 him in Tibet, Kashmir, &c, published in Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1841, p. 6, the name 

 Oriolus galbuloides, Gould, occurs, as having been obtained in the Alpine Panjab. 

 I have seen no description of this species, but it is not improbably that referred to 

 O. galbula, loc. cit.; the specimen of which, obtained in the vicinity of Calcutta, 

 having injured its wings and tail while I kept it caged, and its bill also being some- 

 what diseased, its differences from O. galbula (of which the Society as yet possesses 

 only a young female, killed in France,) if any, are not obvious. The Calcutta speci- 

 men is a young male, and remarkable for having no tarse whatever of black either 

 before or behind the eye, which is perhaps one of the distinctions of O. galbuloides. 

 A very similar bird, in its plumage, occurs in a collection before me from Macao, 

 which I suspect to be a young female of O. Chinensis, particularly from the form of 

 the bill ; though there is no trace of a black nape : and I would call attention to the 

 approximating resemblance in the form of the bill of O. Chinensis to that of the 

 Plectrorhyncha lanceolata of Gould, figured in his magnificent birds of Australia, 

 the nest of which, also, as represented by him, and even the note as described, tending 

 to indicate a near affinity on the part of that Australian bird to the Orioles, much 

 closer, I suspect, than in the instance of the well known Regent-bird of the same 

 country (Sericulus chrysocephalus.) 



P. 799. The supposed variety of Tephrodornis super ciliosus, having no whitish line 

 over the eye, nor white on the exterior tail-feathers, maybe designated T. grisola. 

 Lanius sordidus, Lesson, in the Zoologie du Voyage de M. Belanger, appears to be 

 referrible to T. super ciliosus. 



P. 801. Add Dicrurus eeratus, Stephens, to the synonyms of Prepopterus 

 tzneus in the preceding page. Dicrurus forficatus, Gmelin, vel cristatus, Vieillot, 

 is stated by Lesson to inhabit Malabar. Which species is intended ? 



P. 805. Mr. Jerdon informs me that he has recently procured the species of Turnix 

 mentioned by Latham as Var. A., inhabiting India and China. Among Dr. Buchanan 

 Hamilton's drawings is that of a species named by him Turnix tanki, which is pro- 



