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birds, comprising a new Tephrodomis, and a Phyllornis which I cannot satisfactori- 

 ly determine. Ph. Jevdoni is common on the island, and I lately observed this species 

 in considerable abundance in the Midnapore jungles ; as also Pynonotus flavirictus, 

 which is another common inhabitant of Ceylon ; but neither of them inhabits the 

 valley of the Ganges.* In this collection, I may notice also Parus cineretcs, Vieil- 

 lot (v. atriceps, Horsf.), identical with specimens from Java, the Himalaya, and 

 from central and southern India ; and Bucco rubricapillus , Gmelin, distinct from 

 the common B. indicus, and more nearly allied to the Malabar species referred to 

 B. barbicnlus, Cuv., in XV, 13, but which I now think distinct, and have termed 

 B. malabaricus. 



5. R. W. G. Frith, Esq. A huge specimen of the variety of the common domestic 

 fowl, known as Gallus gig aniens ; a specific name which, I think, is inadmissible. 



Also the skull of a Dolphin taken on the voyage out to India, which is all 

 that I have been able to learn of its history. It agrees with the figure of Delphimis 

 delphis, Linn., in the ' Ossemens Fossiles,' except that there is no trace of lateral 

 constriction towards the base of the upper maxilla, and the teeth exceed fifty on 

 each side above (amounting to fifty-three on tlie right side), and may be put down 

 as fifty on either side below ; this exceeds the extreme number hitherto observed in 

 Z>. delphis (verus), and in no other species of true Delphimis described by M. Fred- 

 Cuvier, are the teeth nearly so numerous. f 



6. C. S. Bonnevie, Esq., of Rungpore. A large collection of Darjeeling birds, 

 from which I have been permitted to select any required for the musuem, and 

 the rest are to be forwarded to that of the Christiania University. Among 

 those selected for our own collection may be mentioned Emberiza pusilla, 

 Tch'rfrea ajfinis, Mvscicapula 31c Grey oria?, (Burton, — the female of which is 

 Leiothrix siynata, M'CIelland and Horsfield, and Niltava auricularis, Hodgson), 

 M. sajiphira, foem., lanthia fiavolivacea (p. 133, ante), Pnoepyya squamata, Tesia 

 cyanivcnter (var. auriceps, Hodg., p. 137, ante), T. castaneo-coronata, Culicipeta 

 (seu Abrornis) poliogenys, n. s., Drymoica brevicaudata, n. s., Stachyris ruficeps, 

 n. s., Ixulus occipitalis, Minla cinerea, n. s., Proparua chrysotis (it should be 

 chrysopierus,) m. and f., Myzornis pyrrhoura, Erpomis zantholeuca, and Cer- 

 thia discolor, — for the most part, particularly five specimens % Also a collection of 

 Darjeeling Lepidopiera, from which a few good specimens have been selected. 



* Oriolits melanocephalus, so very common in Bengal, seems to be equally so in Ceylon, 

 though in most parts of the peninsula of India, I believe it is of rare occurrence. Many 

 other species are equally common in Ceylon and Lower Bengal : and Malacocercus terri- 

 color of Bengal, Assam, Nepal, and Orissa;, is barely separable from M. striatus, Sw., 

 of Ceylon. Indeed, coupling it with the fact of the deep colouring- of Acridotheres tristis 

 in Ceylon ( XV. 314), and that of the representative of Corvus sploidens being there black, 

 though differing in no other respect, I question whether we are justified in considering 

 M. terricolor to be really different from M. striatus. 



t In XV, 368, for " Delphinorhynchus rostratus, F. Cuv." read " D. frontal its. F. Cuv." 

 % The novelties in this collection have been described and are incorporated in the con- 

 tinuation of my paper on ' Ne.v and Little Known Species of Birds.' 



