375 
on Dr. Jerdon^s ‘ Birds of India.’ 
perhaps sometimes stray into Afghanistan. In Lower Bengal 
it is not uncommon as a cold-weather visitant. 
357. Turdulus wardi. 
To this subgroup must also be referred Turdus interpres, 
Ternm. (PI. Col. 432 ; T. avensis, Gray), which is nearly allied to , s ^ 
T. wardi, but has a chestnut-rufous cap and nape; from Lombok 
(Wallace), and Sumatra and Java (Temminck). Also Geocichla 
erythronota, Sclater (Ibis, 1859, p. 113), from Celebes, like T. >C 
interpres, but having the whole back, as well as the head, 
chestnut-rufous. Also T. peroni , Vieillot (Pucheran, Arch, du 
Museum, vii. p. 352, pi. xix.); Geocichla ruhiginosa, Muller, 
from Timor. Also T. cardis (PI. Col. 518; Faun. Japon., Aves, 
tab. xxix., xxx.). The remarkable dissimilarity of the sexes in 
T. wardi and T. cardis should indicate a corresponding diversity 
of plumage in those of their immediate congeners. 
358. Turdulus chrysolaus (Temm. PI. Col. 587; Faun. 
Japon., Aves, tab. xxviii.). 
This species, my Geocichla dissimilis (olim), is not T. cardis . 
It cannot be placed in a different division from T. unicolor 
and other Geocichlre . I remember sending a coloured drawing 
of the specimen shot in the Calcutta Botanic Garden to Sir W. 
Jardine. When Col. Tytler wrote, in his a Fauna of Barrack- 
poore” (Ann. &Mag. N. H. 1854, xiii. p. 370), of G. dissimilis 
that it is “ often found in groves of trees: it is very singular 
that, out of the numbers shot, a male is seldom or never pro¬ 
cured; this latter, when in fine adult plumage, is distinguished 
from the sombre colour of the female by the bright reddish 
streaks [colour ?] on its flanks,” he supposed the female of G. 
unicolor to be that of G. dissimilis (G. cJwysolaus), concerning 
which latter he wrote from memory of the single specimen he 
had seen in the Calcutta Museum. 
361, 362, 363. Merula boulboul *, M. albocincta, and 
M. castanea; Gould, B. As. pt. xi. pis. 
M. vulgaris is mentioned by Dr. A. L. Adams as “ a common 
* Mr. Gurney (Ibis, 1864, p. 351) would seem to refer the Lanius 
boulboul , of Latham, to a species of Laniarius. 
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