98 Proeeédings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [No. 1, 



noire de la Chine of Sonnerat, described J. A. S. XIV, note to p. 

 589, also Hcematornis chrysorrhoides, Lafresnaye, Bev. Zool. &c. 



1845, p. 367, and P. hcemorrhous apud Hartlaub, Bev. Zool. &c. 



1846, p. 1. I have no means of determining upon which of the tvvo 

 species M. Vieillot first bestowed the ñame atricapilbtjs ; but as 

 both cannot bear it in the same genus, I propose to retain atrica- 

 pillus, (Vieillot), for the Chínese bird, and nigricapillus, (Drapier,) 

 for that of Ceylon * 



P. sinensis, (Gmelin) : Turdus occipitalis, Tem. 

 Orioi/üs chenensis, Gmelin. 



HlATICTJLA PHILIPPINA, (Scopoli). 



Tringa alpina, L. ; Tu. subarquata, (Gm.), apud nos, XVIII, 

 (280.) 



Buphtts caboga, (Pennant). 



Arbeola speciosa, (Horsfield, vera), in summer and winter dress. 



Arbetta stnensis, (Gm.) 



Lartts euscus, L. 



L. kittlitzii (?), Bruch : Gavia kittlitzii (?), Bonap. 



Thalasseus pelicanoibes, (King) : Sterna cristata, Stephens (nec 

 Swainson) ; ¡3t. velox, Rüppell. Specimens from the Bay of Bengal, 

 the Maldives, and from China, appear to be perfectly identieal ; and 

 correspond, so far as can be adjudged, with Rüppell's figure. 



Anotjs stoliba, (Gm.) 



Pobiceps cristattjs, L. Winter dress. 



P. minor, Gm. (or P. philippensis, Gm., if this be considered 

 separable). "Winter dress. 



REPULÍA. 



Pythok moltjrus, (L.) A flat skin, more than 13 feet long 

 without the head, from Pormosa ! 



Bungartjs multicincttjs, nobis, n. s. Another fíat skin, obviously 

 of a Btjngarus, nearly affined to B. easciatus, (Schneider) ; but 

 the golden bands only one-sixth as broad as the black bands, and 

 numbering more than fifty in a specimen 4 í't. in length minus the 

 head.f 



* The late Prince of Canino proposed the generic ñame Meeopixus for the 

 Ceylon species. 



f Mr. Swinhoe writes, Dec. 8th — " In Davis's ' China,' II, 333, mention is 

 made of a very poisonous striped black and ivhite Snake having reached England 



