1843.] Asiatic Society. 181* 



bably the same. Length about six inches and a quarter, of the tarse two inches. 

 Bill and legs yellow : irides white. Nape bright ferruginous : the back ashy, with 

 faint dark cross-markings ; wing-coverts light brown, having each a black spot near 

 the tip, which is margined with pale yellowish ; the breast a weak ferruginous, paler 

 on the belly ; crown light brown, with blackish margins to the feathers, the ear- 

 coverts and over the eye light fulvescent. Evidently a very distinct species. 



P. 808. I have considerable misgivings as to whether the Coturnix fiavipes here 

 intimated may not prove to be imperfectly mature C. Phillipensis, since the propor- 

 tions and the colour of the legs agree, and I have subsequently obtained the latter in 

 this vicinity : but my impression still is, that my former specimens were consider- 

 ably lighter in colour. 



Perdix Argoondah is P. Cambayensis, Auct. 



P. 872. The adult males of Euplectes Bengalensis and Eu. striatus resemble the 

 females when not in breeding plumage, as stated by Mr. Elliot in the instance of the 

 former. Whether the latter be distinct from Ploceus Jiaviceps, Cuv. (but unpub- 

 lished ?),of the Paris Museum, remains to be ascertained. The Fringilla Manyar, 

 Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, 160, subsequently referred by that naturalist to Ploceus, 

 is enumerated in his list of Dr. McClelland's birds procured in Assam; and Mr. 

 Jerdon informs me, that the Ploceus pensilis, Vieillot, or Loxia pensilis of Latham, is 

 mentioned as Bengalese in M. Lesson's Traite. 



P. 880. Herpestes ; vide p. 970. 



Kemas hylocrius, Ogilby. "The Jungle Sheep" (of Southern India), writes Mr. 

 Jerdon, in confirmation of my remarks on this animal, loc. cit., " is certainly the 

 Muntjac, which is well known to many Madras sportsmen by that name. I suspect, 

 however, that it is a different species from the Javanese. The Kemas hylocrius is called 

 Ibex by residents in the Neilgherries, — Rock Sheep, or rather Goat, by the natives. 

 It associates in small herds on the rocky sides of the hills, and does not betake itself 

 to the woods at all."* 



P. 882. It appears that the Tricophorus virescens, Jerdon, is the same as Ixos 

 Psidii (Muscicapa Psidii, Gmelin, v. Turdus analis, Horsfield), a specimen of which 

 that I forwarded to that naturalist being thus identified by him ; but he certainly 

 never sent this species to the Society, but an example of Tr. Jiaveolus, Gould, as I 

 mentioned loc. cit. 



P. 886 The Ardea Jiavicollis, Wagler, figured by Hardwicke, is merely the young 

 A. nigra • but the former name was applied, I believe, by Latham, and would there- 

 fore have the priority. f 



P. 883. The specimen assigned to Phyllopneusle rufa was a young example of my 

 Ph. lugubvis, as yet undescribed. 



P. 970. Picus strictus, Horsfield. 



The various obligations to which I am under to Mr. Jerdon, late of the 2nd Madras 



* " Capra (Ibex) Warryato" is a name introduced into Mr. Gray's recent list of alleged new 

 species ; but it does not appear from his description of the head only, in what this differs from 

 Kemas hylocrius of Ogilby, the animal above noticed. — In a letter which I have just received from 

 Mr. Jerdon, that naturalist also remarks, referring to Gray's paper, — " The Capra (Ibex) Warryato 

 is Kemas hylocrius, as I dare say you have guessed. The specific name being the Tamool name of 

 the animal." I much incline to doubt whether it occurs elsewhere than on the Neilgherries. 



t The Society has just received a Chusan specimen of this bird. 



