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landii, the Javanese G. ru/ifrons, and the Chinese O. perspicillatus, 

 which last Mr. G. R. Gray identifies with G. Belangeri, though I sus- 

 pect erroneously. In my former synopsis, are included also a G. Rein- 

 wardii and G. capistratus ; but the former has proved to inhabit Sene- 

 gal (vide Swainson's ■ Birds of W. Africa', I, 276, Nat. Libr.), and the 

 form of this species, which is the type of Crateropus, Sw., would ap- 

 pear intermediate to Garrulax v. lanthocincla, and Malacocercus, Sw., 

 so that lanthocincla appears to have been erroneously identified by 

 Mr. Swainson with his Crateropus, and the two groups are recognised 

 separately by Mr. G. R. Gray ;— and the latter species, or G. capis- 

 tratus {Cinclosoma capistratum of Vigors,) proves also to be the Sibia 

 nigriceps of Hodgson, the Hypsipetes gracilis of McClelland and Hors- 

 field, and it is in all probability the Cinclosoma melanocephalum of 

 Royle's list ; wherefore it will now range as Sibia capistrata, (Vigors). 



It may here be added, also, that Leiocincla plumosa, nobis, J. A. S. 

 XII, 953, is the Actinodura Egertonii of Gould ; and that Cincloso- 

 ma ? nipalense, Hodgson, v. Sibia nipalensis, H., though allied to Ac- 

 tinodura y will not range therein (as has been suggested), but remain as 

 the type of Ixops, Hodgson (XII, 958), connecting Actinodura with 

 Sibia. Accordingly, the four supposed species of the latter genus 

 enumerated in XII, 958, are now reduced to two, from the ejection of 

 the first, and identification of the second and fourth ; nor are the two 

 species that remain very closely allied to each other, 



The following is a Crateropodine genus, allied to Pellornium, and 

 bearing some vague resemblance to the Malacopteron group. 



Ma/acocinc/a, nobis. Bill as long as the head, rather stout, high, 

 much compressed, the tip of the upper mandible pretty strongly hook- 

 ed, but indistinctly emarginated, and its ridge obtusely angulated to- 

 wards the base, the remainder scarcely angulated ; gape but little 

 widened, and feebly bristled ; nostrils large and subovate, with oval 

 aperture to the front, a little removed from the base of the bill: tarse 

 of mean length and strength, as long as the middle toe with its claw ; 

 the claws suited for perching, compressed, and moderately curved, 

 that of the hind toe rather large. Wings moderate, with the first 

 primary reaching to about their middle, the second much shorter than 

 the third, and the fourth longest : tail rather short, weak, and even, 

 except that its outermost feathers are a little shorter than the rest. 



