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Ps. bimaculatus, Sparrman. 



Ps. javanicus, Osbeck. 



Ps. Osbeckii, Latham. 



Ps. mystaceus, Shaw. 



Palceornis nigrirostris, Hodgson (the young female). 



P. modestusy Fraser (the very young female). 



Madnd ('charming,' 'pleasing'), the red-billed bird; 



Kdjld (as having the black pigment, Kdjal, applied 



to the eye-brows ; alluding to the black loral line), 



the black-billed bird, Hind. ; Imrit Bhila, Nepal, 



(Hodgson) ; Bettet, Java, (Horsfield). 



Has. Hilly parts of Bengal, Nepal, Asam, Sylhet, Arakan, 



Tenasserim, Malayan peninsula (to latitude of Penang), Sumatra, Java, 



and Borneo. 



Remark. We have never seen this bird in Malacca collections, nor 

 does it appear to occur wild in any part of the Indian peninsula or in 

 Ceylon; hence the name pondicerianus cannot be adopted. Spe- 

 cimens from Java are perfectly similar to those of India. In a pre- 

 sumed female observed in captivity, the upper mandible changed from 

 black to coral-red when the bird was about 18 months old. 



9. P. columboides, Vigors (Jerdon's III. Ind. Orn., pi. 8). 

 Syn. P. melanorhynchos, Sykes, — the young. 



Madan-gowr Totd, H. (Jerdon). 

 Hab. Nilgiris ; Malabar. 



10. P. CALTHRAPiE, Layard, Blyth, J. A. S. XVIII, 800. 

 Hab. Mountainous interior of Ceylon. 



Remark. In the adult specimen described, loc. cit.> the middle 



tail-feathers had not attained their full length : in three other adults 



since received, they are full grown but very short, measuring but from 



4^- in. to 5^.* 



* In this enumeration of the species of Palceornis, I have provisionally omitted 

 to include a race (or slight variety of P. torquatus?) which inhabits Ceylon, and 

 which I formerly supposed to be P. Mtorquatus, Kuhl, judging from a female only 

 which I had then reason to believe was procured in the Mauritius, Mr. Layard 

 considers it distinct from the ordinary P. torquatus of Ceylon, &c, and has 

 obligingly procured for me a living male not yet received. — Since the foregoing was 

 in type, I have received a further communication from Mr. Layard, in which he 

 mentions having obtained a number of skins. P. bilorquatus, a species which is 



