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C. torquatus, Cuv. : C. pectoralis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 18 ; 

 C. dominicanus, Bonap. ; G. dauricus apud G. E. Gray, Gen. £irds, 

 II, 315. 



Pica media, nobis : P. sericea, Gould. 



Parus minor, Temminck and Schlegel (figured in Gould's £ Birds 

 of Asia'). Like P. cinereus, Yieillot, but with green on the fore-parfc 

 of the back. 



Leucodioptron canorum, Schiff. ; Turdus canorus, T. sinensis, 

 et Lanius faustus, L. ; Garrulax sinensis apud Gray, nec G. chi- 

 nensis, nobis, Catal. No. 483, which is a Tenasserim species, doubtful 

 if likewise inhabiting China. Fowchow. 



Garrulax perspicillatus, (Gm.) 



Temenuchus clneraceus, (Tem.) 



Passer montanus, (L.), var. Although alike in size and mark- 

 ings, specimens of this bird from different regions are readily distin- 

 guishable. The British are much darker ashy underneath, like P. 

 DOMESTICUS as compared with its Indian representativo ; those from 

 Arakan are considerably more rufous on the back ; while the Chínese 

 race is simply whiter underneath than the European. The Sikhim 

 race, if I remember rightly, resembles the Chinese one; while speci- 

 mens from Singapore and Java are probably like those from Arakan. 

 I have never seen this bird from the N. W. Himaláya ; and the 

 Afghán P. montatíus of Capt. T. Hutton proved to be P. salici- 

 colus (v. hispaniolensis) . Nevertheless, in Dr. Horsfield's Catalogue, 

 examples of the present species are noted from Kandahar. 



Etjspiza personata, (Tem.) Specimen of a female. 



Alauda gulgula (?), Franklin ; A. coelivooc, Swinhoe, 'Zoologist,' 

 p. G723 (1859). I have only recently seen the true A. malabarica, 

 Scopoli, from S. India, which diífers from A. gulgula of Bengal and 



of Java, according to Mr. F. Moore's description and admeasureinents of the 

 latter. 



In the N. W., the true British Raven (C. corax) is common in the Punjáb 

 and Afghánistán ; but is replaced by a still larger race in Tibet, the C. tibeta- 

 NUS, Ilodgson. In Pesháwur, Kohát, Afghánistán, and Kashmir, the European 

 Kuok (C. frugilegus) oceurs ; and in Kashmir also the European Jackdaw (C. 

 moniíoüla) ; but the Chinese and J apáñese Rook (C. pastinatob, Gonid,) is 

 distinot, and also the Chinese Jackdaw (O. i>aukicus, Pallas). The Hoodcd 

 Crow (C. cornix) extenclseastward to Afghánistán, and the European Carr ion 

 Crow (C. corone) to Pushut, as noticed in the test. 



