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the same bird as the P. chlorolophus of Vieillot, Encycl. Meth., 

 which name I presume will stand for the Bengal bird. This 

 however differs so considerably from the allied species of 

 Southern India, that I have no hesitation in considering them 

 distinct — and accordingly bestow on our southern bird the 

 appellation of chlorig aster. It differs from the Nepal bird 

 y\ smaller size, less developed crest, darker abdomen,' and 

 various other points which I shall particularize in my Illus- 

 trations, for which I have prepared a figure of our southern 

 bird. 



* No. 212 bis. — P. ( Brachypternus J micropus Blyth J. A. 

 S. — vol. 14 — 194. — I procured a specimen, among a lot of 

 P. bengalensis, which appeared to me to be smaller in all its 

 proportions than that species, and sent it to Mr. Blyth, who 

 has named it as above. It was obtained in the jungles of the 

 Eastern Ghauts. 



No. 214 — P. badius. — Mr. Blyth has quite recently (J. A. 

 S. 14. 195) separated the rufous Woodpecker obtained in the 

 north of India from the nearly allied Malayan bird, by the 

 name of P. ( micropternus J phaioceps. I am not very certain 

 if the South Indian bird be identical or not with this, as I have 

 too few specimens for comparison, but it appears to differ in 

 the colour of the chin and throat, wfyich, instead of being 

 rufous edged with paler, is of a dark olive brown, edged 

 with white. It is also somewhat smaller. Should it prove 

 distinct on further examination, I would suggest the name of 

 P. ( micropierniis) gularis. 



No. 215 — P. tiga. — Mr. Blyth considers a specimen I sent 

 of this bird to be the P. shorn, as I had suggested in my 

 catalogue — but the smaller specimens alluded to are probably 

 the real P. tiga, or it may be Blyth's P. intermedins. 



* No. 215 bis. — P. shorii — Vigors. 



No. 217 — Bucco viridis. — The true B. viridis, as I find on 

 reference to the figure in PL EnL pi. 870, is the bird found 



