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Malacca has the wing 4", and one from Java 4^", both have the 

 supraciliary stripe interrupted, and the loreal region black, therefore, 

 agree with typical frinffillarius, except that they are larger. Possibly, 

 the black of the loreal region and above the eye, suppressing the 

 development of the white supraciliary stripe, is only an occasional 

 face of plumage, or it indicates a distinction of the sexes, or a local 

 variation ; it seems, however, pretty certain that the Javanese bird 

 is somewhat larger than the Malayan. Whatever the case may 

 be, whether there be one or two distinct species, or only varieties, 

 of the black-legged Hierax, I do not understand how it came, that 

 Linne's name ccerulescens has been almost universally adopted for 

 the Malayan birds. The name appears to have been introduced 

 through Horsfield' s and Temminck's illustrations, though 

 Horsfield (Res. Java) very properly pointed out the distinctions 

 between his and Linne's cairulesccns. Judging from the 13th 

 edition (by Gr m e 1 i n) of the Syst. nat., Linne's name has been 

 based upon E d w a r d s' figure (Nat. Hist. Birds, pi. 108), which 

 was taken from a Bengal specimen and clearly represents the red' 

 legged Hierax (7Z". eutolmus of H o d g s o n) and, therefore, it should 

 be reserved for the Indian species, but not applied to the Malayan 

 (and Java) form with black tibial feathers, which is fringillarius of 

 Drapiez, a name originally adopted by B 1 y t h, but afterwards 

 replaced by that of ccerulescens. 



Fam. PSITTACID^J. 

 2. Loricultts GULGUxus, Linn. 



This is a somewhat smaller bird than L. vernalis, S p a r r m., but 

 very like it, and young birds can hardly be separated ; wing 2£"- 

 2f" ; tail If" ; usually with some bluish tinge in front and on the 

 top of the head, and on the middle throat, a golden tinge on the 

 posterior neck, as well as on the upper vent in front of the scarlet 

 patch. The blue patch on top of head appears characteristic of the 

 bird in full plumage. The species is very common in the Welles- 

 ley Province, and is often caged by the Malays of the country. 

 An albino specimen shot there has the whole plumage very much 

 mixed with yellowish white, the longer wing coverts deep green, 

 the quills mostly white and edged with greenish and yellow on the 



