800 Note to the Catalogue of the Birds, [Aug. 



A Supplemental Note to the Catalogue of the Birds in the Asiatic 

 Society's Museum;* by E. Blyth, Esq. 



No. 1818. Cacatua citrino-cristata ; Plyctolophus citrino-cris- 

 tatus, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 39. Except that Mr. Fraser states that 

 this species is about the size of C. sulphurea, his description of it would 

 equally apply to C. galerita, which indeed it very closely resembles, 

 except in its much inferior size. It is larger, however, than C. sulphu- 

 rea, and has a much higher crest ; while its beak is considerably smaller 

 and more compressed than in that species, having a much narrower 

 culmen to the upper mandible, but the lower being as broad as in C. 

 sulphurea, with a medial groove instead of a convexity. Colour exactly 

 as in C. galerita; and length of closed wing lOf in., and of crest 4f in. 

 Habitat unknown. 



No. 1833. Pal^eornis Calthrap^:, Layard. A beautiful spe- 

 cies, the representative in the mountainous parts of Ceylon of P. colum- 

 boides of the Nilgiris, to which species it manifests the nearest affinity. 

 Crown and back plumbeous-grey, passing to bluish on the rump, and 

 rich dark indigo-blue on the middle tail-feathers and outer webs of the 

 rest : tail yellow beneath and at the tips, sullied along the inner webs 

 of the rectrices above : forehead and cheeks (passing beyond the eye), 

 broad nuchal ring, and entire under parts, brilliant green : wings deeper 

 green, paler and yellowish towards the scapularies : throat intense black 

 and contrasting, with a tendency to form a ring round the neck, but 

 which does not so much as half surround the neck. Upper mandible 

 bright coral, with a white tip ; the lower reddish. Wing 5^ in. : tail 

 probably of the usual length, but its medial feathers in the specimen 

 described appear but half-grown. A female or young male is wholly 

 green, more yellowish below, except the rump which is brighter blue 

 than in the adult male, and the tail is mingled green and indigo-blue ; 

 the more vivid green ring of the neck but obscurely indicated. Both 

 the mandibles are dull coral, with white tips ; and the wing measures 

 5} in., the tail but \\ in. 



* The species included in this paper are, almost without exception, comprised in 

 the printed Catalogue of the collection of Birds in the Society's Museum, each with 

 a reference to Vol. XVIII, of its Journal, and their nnmbers in the Catalogue are 

 here prefixed. 



