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No. 80.— Pitta brachyura — This bird will now stand as P. 

 superciliaris , "VVagler. 



*No. 83. bis. — Tardus nigropileus La-fresnaye — This bird 

 is nearly allied to, though quite distinct from, the Neilgherry 

 black-bird — I have found it, though very rare, and only an 

 occasional visitant, to various parts of the country, Imt it 

 appears most abundant in the Malabar forest. I have ob- 

 tained it myself both at Jalnah, and at Nellore, in gardens, and 

 found it feeding on a species of helix. 



Length— 9*— W 5— T StV Tars— Xh —bill (front) A ths. 



No. 85. — This species of Thrush is now considered to be 

 the furdus whitei, but Mr. Strickland has identified it as the 

 ' T. duama of Latham, which name will accordingly hold good. 



* No. 84. bis. — Tardus Wardn — Jerdon, Illust. Ind. Ornith, 

 pi. viii. 



Since my account of this peculiarly marked Thrush in my 

 Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, I have met with it at 

 Nellore. Lord Arthur Hay also obtained a specimen at the 

 foot of the Neilgherries. Mr. Blyth informs me that Mr. 

 Hodgson had also sent it to the Calcutta museum under the 

 MSS. name of T. micropus. — I think it is probably the 

 Darunga Thrush of Latham, No. 82. 



No. 86. r-This species is now generally considered to be 

 the Pellorneum ruficeps of Swainson. Mr. Blyth considers 

 it to be identical with the Cinclidia punctata of Gould, and 

 the Hemtpteron nepalense of Hodgson. Mr. Strickland has 

 also identified it with Sykes' Megalurus ruficeps. 



No. 91. — In my Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, I have 

 separated the species found in the Malabar forests from Col. 

 Sykes' Somervillei, under the name of Malabaricus. 



