10 Notices and Descriptions of various Neiv [No. 169. 



the latter twelve and three-quarters, from Darjeeling, are dusky, with 

 the light mottlings much deeper fulvous, and there is a considerable 

 admixture of pure white below the facial disk. Not improbably these 

 were younger than the others.* 



In XIV, 188, I suggested that Buceros bicolor, Eyton, is probably the 

 B. malabaricus apud Raffles, and B. albirostris apud Horsfield ; but I have 

 since seen several specimens of a Malayan species intermediate to those 

 two, combining the bill and casque of B. albirostris with the size and 

 white outer tail-feathers of B. pica (vel malabaricus) : this, Lord Arthur 

 Hay considers to be B. violaceus, Waglerf; and the Society lately 

 received a young bird of the species in question from Penang. The 

 large head and casque referred to B. albirostris in XII, 995, I now 

 consider to belong to the allied Penang species. The Society has 

 lately received specimens of true B. albirostris from the Tenasserim pro- 

 vince of Ye, undistinguishable from the bird of Bengal, Nepal, Assam, 

 and Arracan : we had previously a Tenasserim specimen of the young 

 of B. albirostris, presented on a former occasion by Mr. Barbe. 



* The Norwegian collection has supplied us with three fine specimens of S. aluco, 

 all of the non-rufous variety, and very different from the one we previously possessed. 

 aS". nivicolum is very nearly allied, and the under-parts of some specimens of the two 

 species are undistinguishable : but the dusky ground-tint is much more predominant 

 on the upper-parts of S. nivicolum, to an extent that the two could scarcely be con- 

 founded. 



Here it may be remarked that the common Ninox scutellatus, which occurs in most 

 collections from Malacca, has, in addition to its various other synonymes, been re- 

 cently designated Athene malaccensis by Mr. Eyton, An. and Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 

 228: and in the same paper,— Criniger gularis, (Horsfield), is termed Pycnonotus 

 ruficaudatus;—Ixidiacyaniventris, nobis, =Malacopteron aureum ; — Timalia pec- 

 toralis, nobis, =Malacopteron squamatum ; — T. striata, nobis, =Brachypteryx ma- 

 culatus ; — T. crythronotus, nobis,= ffr. nigrogularis ; — T. erythroptera, nobis,=Z?r. 

 acutirostris ;—Muscipeta plumosa, nobis, (of which it seems I described the female 

 only, )=Philentoma castaneum, which must accordingly be altered to Ph. plumo- 

 sum;— and a state of plumage of the bird 1 described as Hemicercus concretus (XI, 

 195,) is described by the name Dendrocopus sordidus. Mr. Eyton's Ixos metallicus 

 would seem to be nearly allied, except in size, to the species which I designated Bra- 

 chypodius melanocephalus, XIV, 176. 



It is to be regretted that Capt. Charleton did not permit me to look over his collec- 

 tion of Malayan birds, when he had them in Calcutta; for all these useless synomymes 

 would then have been avoided. 1 offered to have them labelled for him. 



f Described by his lordship in the Madras Journ. No. XXXI, p. 148: and follow- 

 ing this are descriptions of B. comatus, B. malayanus, and B. Elliott, which last is B. 

 bicolor, Eyton, apud nos, and, as 1 still think, rightly identified with the latter. 



