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It would seem to be the commonest species of the archipelago. 
Wallace has also C. poliocephalus from Java. In the British Museum 
there is a Nipal specimen of what seems to me a small race of H. 
sparverioides, which I have named nisoides: wing 74 in.—Of H. 
misicolor I have now seen several specimens. J. strenuus, Gould 
(B. As.), I think doubtfully separable from sparveroides ; and his 
hyperythrus is just the adult of Horsfield’s fugax, which I consider to 
be distinct from the Indian varius. The fugax I now recognise as 
H, flaviventris, (Scopoli. Syn. C. radiatus, Gm. ; H. pectoralis, Caba- 
nis, and A. hyperythrus, Gould,—the adult; and C. fugaxz, Horsf., 
sparveroides apud von Schrenck,—the young.)—From China, Philip- 
pines, Borneo, and Java. My Geocichla dissimilis is Turdus chrysolaus, 
Temm., nec cardis (Jerd. No. 358). The Tragopan Duvaucelit, Temm., 
is Pucrasia castanea, Gould; and its true habitat probably Kashmir 
(Kdfiristan being altogether out of the question). I suspect that 
nipalensis, Gould, is merely a hybrid between it and the common 
Himalayan species, Arboricola, I have made out a list of 12 species 
of this group! Zurniw Dussumieria (vERUS) = Sykesi; and 7. Dussu- 
miert apud Jerdon must stand as tanckz, B. Ham. (v. joudera, Hodg- 
son). Gasarca leucoptera, nobis, is Anas scutulata, Miller. 
This must do forthe present. I may add that the large striped 
Derbian Eland has a very different form of ear-conch from the common 
Eland, broad like that of the Kandoa, instead of lanceolate as in the 
humped cattle. This is a notable distinction. 
Nors on tue Prvra Patrivexrs (Arboricola, Hodgson). This groud 
of hill Partridges, with long (or moderately long) straight claws and 
spurless, is greatly developed in the jungle-clad hills of 8S. EH. Asia 
and its islands, where probably several species yet remain to be 
discovered. I think we can already enumerate— 
a. With the throat well feathered. 
1. A rorgunoxa. (Tem., p. c. 462-3.) The only species known to 
me in which the sexes present a marked difference of plumage. 
Himalaya. F 
2. a. RuFoguLARIS, nobis. S. E. Himalaya (at a lower altitude 
than the preceding race,) and also the Tenasserim mountains. (J. A. 
S. XXIV, 276.) 
