296 Notices and Descriptions of various New [No. 172. 



6. E. grandis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 5 : E. bengalensis, 

 A. Hay, MS. Crest- feathers attaining to an inch and a half, or in very 

 fine specimens a trifle more, and reaching to the occiput, but scarcely 

 ever overhanging it.* Fine specimens are of equal size with the pre- 

 ceding race ; though, in general, the present one is rather smaller. It 

 is common in Assam and Arracan, and occurs in the Bengal Soonder- 

 buns. 



7. E. paradiseus ; Cuculus paradiseus, Lin. : Dicrurus platurus, Vieil- 

 lot ; Edolius retifer, Tern. ; E. cristatellus, nobis, XI, 171 ; E. interme- 

 dins. Lesson, apud G. R. Gray. This is the common species of the Te- 

 nasserim provinces, with crest generally from an inch to an inch and 

 a quarter long, and the. wing usually six inches and a quarter. It is not 

 well distinguished from the last ; but when a number of specimens are 

 seen together, with a corresponding series of the Arracan bird, the aver- 

 age size and development of the crest-feathers of the present race is 

 shewn to be inferior, and the tendency of the crest is always to curve 

 back more abruptly. 



Two specimens from southern India (locality not mentioned), with 

 which the Society has been favoured by Mr. Jerdon, do not — at least that 

 I can perceive — differ in any respect from the common Tenasserim race ; 

 but Mr. Jerdon informs me, that he possesses three Edolii from the 

 Indian peninsula, — " one from Malabar, one from the Eastern Ghats, 

 and one from Goomsoor. This last (E. orissaj," he adds, " has the 

 bill much smaller than in E. dentirostris of the Eastern Ghats. The 

 Malabar species is crested, and therefore does not correspond with Son- 

 nerat's figure" below' referred to. 



8. E. malabaricus, (Scopoli), founded on le Grand Gobe-mouche de la 

 cote de Malabar of Sonnerat : E. rangonensis, Gould. That two races 

 even here remain to be distinguished is still my suspicion, one being the 

 bird described as E. rangonensis in XI, 172, and represented in the 

 plate to XI, 802, figs. 8 and 9 ; the other, the bird of Sonnerat, devoid 

 of the slightest trace of a frontal crest, and of which (if I am not greatly 

 mistaken) I saw a Singapore specimen in the collection of a French 

 gentleman some time ago, who forwarded that collection to Paris be- 



* Mr. Gould, in his description of E. grandis, states— 4 ' The recurved feathers of 

 the upper part of the head measure an inch and a half in length." 



