Imperfectly Described, Species of Birds. 



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lateral bands hardly observed in G. religiosa, and so marked 

 in G. Javanus, occur in this species only before and behind 

 the eye but not over it ; thus causing a hiatus which is re- 

 placed by the proper feathers of the head ; in size the G. 

 Java?2usi$ the largest, and the Peninsular species the smallest, 

 while the only distinction in the general plumage of this 

 species, and which is perhaps merely the effect of age, L>, that 

 the primaries and secondaries are edged with rusty brown, 

 thus almost forming a band across the wing. 



I shall now add the dimensions of all three species. 



The Peninsular Species. 

 G. Religiosa, Linne. 



Total length 8 T V 



Wing . *A 



Tarsi*s ljL 



Middle toe 



Hallux 1 



Tail 



Bill from base ... 1 

 „ from the 

 rictal angle ly 3 ^ 



T'o 



Malay Species. 

 G. Javanus, Cuvier. 



10 



ItV 



Northern Indian Species. 

 G. hidicus. 



6 T V 

 ItV 

 ItV 

 tV 

 3 T V 

 ItV 

 ItV 

 1A 



The difficulty attending the description of species so 

 apparently similar and yet differing so materially in parti- 

 culars, will I trust plead some excuse for any faultiness in the 

 above remarks ; should Cuvier's name of Indicus be found 

 to apply to our common species, or to the Malay bird, I would 

 propose that of intermedius for the species I have provision- 

 ally retained to G. Indicus. 



The outline of the bill given in Swainson's synopsis agrees 

 with our Peninsular species, and is evidently meant to repre- 

 sent that of Linne's G. religiosa. 



Ceblepijris Cidminatus—New Species. 



I received this species from Malacca, and it seems to differ 

 from any that have as yet been described. General cast of 

 the plumage iron-gray, uniform on the head, back of the neck 

 and black under parts, and upper tail coverts, lighter, speckled 

 and striated with white ; a black mark from the base of the 



