1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 933 



Pass of the Neilgherries, and he has seen specimens killed in the 

 eastern range of ghats of Southern India. 



3. Cr. leucogastra ; D. leucogastra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 57, 

 and figured in Trans. Zool Soc. I, pi. XII. Mr. Jerdon has only 

 seen this elegant species in the jungles of Malabar and the Wynaad, 

 and it would appear to be peculiar to the Indian peninsula. 



4. Cr. riifigastra ; D. rufigastra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 80. 

 "Nearly allied to, but differs from Cr. leucogastra in its shorter tail, 

 and in the less extent of the black colouring on the tips of the two 

 central tail-feathers, in the chestnut-brown colouring of the under 

 surface, and in the thickened and more robust bill. India." 



5. Cr. frontalis ; D. frontalis, McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. S. 

 1839, p. 163. Assam. 



6. Cr. altirostris, Nobis, ante. Darjeeling. 



Other species of this genus exist, or appear to exist, in — - 7. Cr. 

 rufa ; Corvus rufus, Latham, Supp. ; la Pie Pousse de la Chine, 

 Sonnerat ; and figured by Levaillant as la Pie Pousse, Ois. de VAfrique, 

 pi. 59 : which was observed in China by Sonnerat, and is said to be 

 also found in India. — 8. Cr. rufiventris ; Pica rufiventris, Vieillot : 

 Shaw's Zoology, XIV, 64. Apparently very closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, Cr. vagabunda ; and said to inhabit Eastern Asia. — 9, 

 Cr. leucoptera, Glaucopis leucopterus, Tern., pi. col. 265, (see also 

 Griffith's Work, VII, 184, or Shaw's Zoology, XIV, 73:) from the 

 Malayan Archipelago.*— 10. Cr. temnura ; Gl. temnura, Tern., ibid. 

 337 : briefly described in Griffith's work as — " Plumage dusky-black, 

 shaded with dark grey; tail curiously scalloped, India?" — And 11. 

 Cr. varians ; Corvus varians, Latham, Supp.; Temia, Levaillant; 

 Phrenotrix temia, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, pt. I, 162, and figured 

 and further described in his 'Zoological Researches in Java.' Inhabits 

 the Malay countries, and (apud Heifer) the British Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces. 



Calliope (? Gould) cruralis, Nobis. Under this generic designa- 

 tion, I avail myself of Mr. Jerdon's suggestion to merge the genus 

 Larvivora, Hodgson, J. A. S. VI, 102, at least as instanced by the 



* This I have just received, and find that it is properly referred to a separate genus — 

 Temnuris, Lesson. Mr. Hodgson's generic name Temnoris approaches this too nearly. 



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