presented by Mr. Hodgson to the British Museum. 455 
pterus and Macacus sinicus (or the Wdndura and Kdlawi of the Cin- 
ghalese *) . 
The Tibetan Lynx I have since described by the name Felis isa- 
bellina : vide J. A. S. B. xvi. 1178. 
P. 314. For Sorex Perrotellii read S. Perrotettii. 
P. 317. Sylvia indica, Jerdon, proves to be my Phylloscopus gri- 
seolus, which must therefore now stand as Ph. indicus (Jerdon) : 
while my MS. udime jlaveolus (cited by Mr. Gray) refers to the spe- 
cies which was named Motacilla affinis by Capt. 4'ickeil. 
P. 319. For Staparola read Stoparola. 
P. 321. For Emberiza sinops read oinops. 
Mirafra assamica, M‘Clelland and Horsfield, v. Plocealauda typica, 
Hodgson, has another synonym (apud Jerdon), it being the Alauda 
mirafra, Temminck. 
P. 323. Phalacrocorax leucotis, nobis, is the Graculus sinensis 
(Lath.). 
P. 383. For Toontoonu (native name) read Toontoonee, or Tdntdni. 
P. 384. For Tas-feek (ditto) read Tao-feek. 
P. 386, 1. 14. After the word “ individuals ” insert of Halcyon 
srnyrnensis. 
I find that though many females of Palaornis pondicerianus are 
black-billed, others have the upper mandible coral-red as in the 
male, and some again imperfectly so ; the latter being probably a 
transitory stage from black to red. One in my possession had the 
upper mandible black for more than a year, when its colour changed 
rapidly to bright coral-red. 
P. 387 et seq. Jungle-fowls. A remarkable fact w^.hich I have ob- 
served both in the wild Gallus ferrugineus (Gm.), and in G. Sonne- 
ratii, is that for two or three months in the year (earlier in the 
former than in the latter species), the nuchal hackles are replaced by 
a growth of short blackish feathers, nearly as in a pheasant but devoid 
of brilliancy. This I have seen in no race of domestic fowls, not 
even in the hybrids produced between the male G. Sonneratii and a 
common hen ; the hackles of these, when shed at the moulting sea- 
son, being immediately replaced by others like them. In a curious 
small Malayan domestic cock I have (without wattles), the hackles 
fall and leave the neck quite bare for a season, giving him a rather 
singular appearance. 
Respecting the matrimonial arrangements of the wild G. ferrugi- 
neus, I have still been unable to satisfy myself whether they are mo- 
nogamous (as Capt. Hutton affirms) or polygamous to a greater or 
less extent. Capt. Tickell well remarks : *'* They dwell in such deep 
and tigerish jungles as not to be easily watched. I have met with 
the males and females,” he adds, “ indifferently together — commonly 
one male to three or four females. I remark however that just now 
* The Inuus silenus, which has been generally assigned to Ceylon, is un- 
known there in a state of nature, though inhabiting (as I have been assured) 
the neighbouring provinces of Travancore and Cochin, on the mainland of 
India. 
