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himalayanus has the whole coronal and occipital feathers crimson-tipped. 

 The well defined whitish frontal hand of P. major is narrower in P. 

 darjellensis, and ill-defined and mingled with reddish in P. himalayanus. 

 P. daijellensis is further distinguished from the two others hy having 

 broad black central stripes to the feathers of the abdomen, flanks, and 

 sides of the breast ; and by the black moustachial stripe not being 

 continued round the ear-coverts, but the fulvescent hue of the latter 

 is continuous with a broad dull golden-fulvous band on the sides of the 

 neck ; the lower tail-coverts of P. darjellensis are also a weak scarlet, 

 and not crimson. Both the Himalayan species have the white bars on 

 the primaries much narrower than in P. major ; and in P. darjellensis, 

 the white wing-patch is much smaller than in the two others. Lastly, 

 P. himalayanus has the black markings on the sides of the neck less 

 developed and less strongly denned than in P. major, descending much 

 less upon the breast, where a ferruginous stain is always perceptible ; 

 and the upper third of the ear-coverts are black, instead of their being 

 wholly whitish, as in P. major. 



P. canicapillus, nobis, XIV, 197, ranges southward to the Tenasserim 

 provinces, but in the Malayan peninsula is replaced by P. moluccensis 

 (vents), v. Tripsurus auritus, Eyton, — distinct from P. Hardwickii, 

 Jerdon, of India. 



Yunx tor quit la, Lin. A British specimen of this bird, lately received 

 by the Society (in a collection sent by the " Cornish Institution"), is 

 conspicuously different from all the numerous Indian specimens which 

 I have seen, in the whiteness of its abdominal region ; contrasting with 

 the fulvescent hue of its under tail-coverts, and also breast : the abdo- 

 minal markings are also much less developed ; and the grey bordering 

 the medial dorsal streak is more albescent.* In Indian Wrynecks, the 

 whole colouring is somewhat more uniform ; and the abdominal region 

 is either quite concolorous with the lower tail-coverts, or very slightly 

 paler (in hardly an observable degree) ; the markings of the under- 

 pays throughout being much more developed. The note of the Indian 

 bird is quite similar to that of the British Wryneck ; of which it can 

 scarcely be considered more than a variety : but Y. pectoralis, Vigors, 

 of South Africa, merely differs in having a large rufous mark on the 

 throat and breast. I have observed these birds in tolerable abundance 



* The descriptions of the European bird mention the whiteness oi its abdominal region. 



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