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having the vertex black like the forehead, not grey like the occiput.* 

 Hab. Darjeeling, and the mountains of Assam. This last species has 

 the beak compressed so as to resemble that of a Callceas, Forster (v. 

 Glaucopis, Gm.), to which genus M. Temminck has referred certain 

 other Crypsirina, as also the Temnorus leucopterus, (Tern.), Lesson. 



Of the two Himalayan species of Garrulus, or true Jay, Mr. G. R. Gray 

 arranges the synonymes as follow: — 1, G. ornatus, Gray, Hardwicke's 

 ///. Ind. Zool. ; G. bispecularis, Vigors and Gould. — 2, G. gularis, Gray, 

 Hardw., 77/. Ind. Zool. ; G. lanceolatus, Vigors and Gould ; and G. 

 Vigorsii, Gray, Hardw., ///. Ind. Zool. — The G. striatus, Vigors and 

 Gould, though extremely Jay-like in form, pertains to a different series 

 of birds ; and Mr. G. R. Gray ranges it under Turnagra of Lesson, 

 which he considers synonymous with his own Keropia. G. gularis is the 

 great Kemaon Shrike of M'Clelland's ' Geology, &c. of Kemaon,' p. 244. 



After the Corvida, might be arranged the Paradiseidce ; to which 

 family I suspect the curious Australian genera Ptilinorhynchus and 

 Chlamidera should be referred. Then the great family of Sturnida, com- 

 mencing with an Australian sub -family, which comprises the genera 

 Strepera, Gymnorhina, Cracticus, Vanga, Neomorpha, and Grallina. Then 

 the great series of Old World Sturnidce, forming the sub-family Sturnina; 

 from which perhaps that of Lamprotornince might be separated, though 

 it is not easy to trace the line of demarcation of this group. I described 

 apart the two Indian Graculce in XII, 178 (bis) ; but Lord Arthur Hay 

 has since distinguished the Malayan Grackle from that of Bengal, &c, 

 which necessitates a revision of the synonymes of all three species. 



1 . Gr. religiosa, Lin. (apud Lord A. Hay) : Gr. indica, Cuvier ; Pas- 

 tor musicus, Tem. ; Mainatus javanus, Lesson, apud Jerdon, J. A, S. XII. 

 178 (bis) ; Lesser Mina of Edwards, quoted by Latham and Gmelin as 

 Gr. religiosa, L., var. A. (the Greater Mina of Edwards being quoted by 

 them as var. B.). Inhabits Southern India. 



2. Gr. javanensis, Osbeck : Greater Mina of Edwards ; and no 



doubt Sturnus indicus Bontii of Ray and Willughby ; probably also 



Mainatus major, Brisson. This, the common Malayan Grackle, differs 



* Dr. McClelland's coloured drawing of Cr. frontalis accords with the description : 

 having the forehead broadly black, passing laterally over each eye to beneath the 

 vertex, as in Cr. sinensis, and leaving the vertex greyish-white, continuous with 

 that of the occiput and nape ; whereas in Cr. altirostris, the black anterior portion 

 comprehends the vertex, as in Cr. leucogastra. 



