1849.] in the Asiatic Society's Museum. 803 



race (B. violaceus, auct.,) is described to have constantly only three of 

 its outer tail-feathers on each side white. 



2. B. albirostris, Shaw (No. 179), vide J. A. S. XVI, 994. From 

 Bengal, Nepal, Asam, Sylhet, Arakan, and the Tenasserim provinces. 

 Great numbers of specimens examined, present no remarkable variation 

 of size, and certainly never approach the dimensions of the Deyra Doon 

 race. 



3. B. affinis (No. 1/8). 



4. B. intermedins, nobis (No. 180), vide J. A. S. XVI, 994. Like 

 No. 179, but with the tail of No. 177. This race is very abundant 

 about Pinang, but we have never seen it from Malacca or Singapore. 

 It is probably the Sumatran malabaricus of Raffles, the Javanese albi- 

 rostris of Horsfield, and the general Malayan malabaricus of Temminck 

 and others. 



5 1 B. violaceus, Shaw, and of Wagler ? (Non vidimus.) From Cey- 

 lon. — B. malayanus (No. 181) is also nearly affined, but too different 

 to be confounded with either of the others ; and B. niyrirostris (No. 

 182) is certainly distinct, and is referred to by Dr. S. Muller as a per- 

 manent variety of No. 181.* 



Genus Picus, L., as restricted to the pied species forming the division 

 Bendrocopus of Swainson. The Indian species of this group are treated 

 of in XIV, 196, so far as we were then cognisant of them. We have 

 since learned of two others described from the " Himalaya," viz. P. 

 assimilis, Natterer,— like P. himalayanus (No. 287), but with the 

 scapulary feathers white, and some other distinctions, — and P. scintilla, 

 Lichtenstein, — which considerably resembles P. pygmceus (No. 300), 

 except in being very much larger. We have now to add 



No. 1825. P. atratus, nobis. Resembles P. Macei, but is larger, 

 with no fulvescent-white on the sides of the head and neck, except 

 some admixture of it on the lores, ear-coverts, and above the eye. 

 Lower-parts black, the feathers laterally edged with dingy golden- 

 fulvous, confused and intermixed on the abdomen, and the black gener- 



* This author gives four varieties of B. rhinoceros, respectively from Sumatra, 

 Borneo, India (about Seringapatam), and Java. We doubt altogether the occur- 

 rence of this bird in India proper, and may remark that a Javanese female examined 

 differed in no respect from the common Malayan peninsula race, which is identical 

 with Dr. S. Muller's Sumatran variety. 

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