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This species is I think clearly enough intended by Latham. 

 — 'The name yellow fronted Thrush is only applicable to 

 aurifrons, and the present species, and the fact of Sir W. 

 Jardine haying formerly applied this name to the aurifrons, 

 shows how nearly allied the species are — Latham however 

 recognised the distinctions, though he has, like later autho- 

 iities \whom perhaps he has been the means of misleading) 

 mixed up and confounded it with our next species, — whose 

 female he describes (though imperfectly) as the female of 

 malabaricus. Moreover under his black chinned honey eater, 

 Tardus cochinsinensis of the Ind. Orn., as var. A., he describes 

 well enough the female of our next species, giving also as 

 synonyms his Turdus malabaricus. — As however he has accu- 

 rately enough described our present bird under malabaricus, 

 I have no hesitation in thus applying that name. I have no 

 access to Sonnerat's description of his 'Petit Merle de la cote de 

 Malabar' which Latham gives as a synonym, and indeed from 

 which I imagine Latham drew his account. Its chief habitat 

 is certainly the forests of the Malabar coasts, extending though 

 sparingly, and only in suitable localities, into central India. 



It is very rare in the jungles of the Eastern Ghauts, whilst 

 the next bird is abundant. 



3. C. Jerdoni Blyth — C. cochinsinensis apud Jerdon, Cat. 

 No. 72 — not the cochinsinensis of Latham — C. Malabaricus 

 apud Jardine and Selby — not of Temminck P. C. 512.2, nor 

 apud Blyth J. A. S. p. 957. — Female described by Latham 

 as fern, of his Turdus Malabaricus, and as var A., o?his black 

 chinned honey eater, Turdus cochinsinensis. Although the 

 description by Latham of his Turdus cochinsinensis agrees 

 somewhat with our present subject, yet from various discre- 

 pancies, from the locality, and still more from an inspection 

 of the figure in the P. E. 643.3, from which apparently this 

 description was taken, I am inclined to believe that this, the 

 ehloropsis of Southern India, is perfectly distinct from the 



