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The Marquis of Tweeddale on the 
The character is clearly only specific^ and the generic title 
Dicranostreptus should be merged under This bird 
is the D. intermedius, Lesson (Tr. d^Orn. p. 380*; cf. Lesson, 
Compl. Buffon, viii. p. 439, note 5 (1837)), a title altogether 
omitted by Mr. Sharpe. Both names were published in 1830 ; 
but that of the discoverer of the species should rightly pre¬ 
vail. Mr. Sharpe includes the Ke Islands, on Dr. 0. Finsch^s 
authority, within its range. But that author so attributed it 
(Neu-Guinea, p. 171) on the authority of a specimen stated 
by Mr. Gray to have been obtained in the Ke Islands by Mr. 
Wallace (P. Z. S. 1861, p. 435); and there is every reason to 
believe that the title as it stands in Mr. Gray^s List of the 
new Birds collected by Mr. Wallace {1. c.) is a misprint for 
D. megalornis, a real inhabitant of Ke. Mr. Sharpe omits to 
include the Solomon Islands, from which area it has been 
recorded by Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 119, 124). 
Bhringa remifer. —This is the sole representative of the 
genus, and is one of the many Javan species which recur on the 
continent north of the Malaccan peninsula, although not found 
on the peninsula itself. Temminck states that it is also an in¬ 
habitant of Sumatra; but this assertion requires confirmation. 
It is nothing but a larger species of Chaptia cenea^ with the 
shafts of the outer pair of rectrices enormously developed f, 
nude after surpassing the remaining rectrices, until the apices 
are reached, where the shafts are equally webbed on both sides. 
These ornamental plumes are only assumed during the breed¬ 
ing-season {teste Jerdon, B. India, i. p. 435). Admitting the 
validity of the genus, its natural position is next to Chaptia. 
Dissemurus paradiseus. —All the racket-tailed Drongos are 
^Gumped^^ by Mr. Sharpe under the above specific title, 
given by Linnaeus to a bird from Siam described by Brisson 
from a drawing made by Poivre. It would require far more 
* It is true that (Ibis, 1877, p. 313) I referred this title to D. platurus j 
but it was with a note of interrogation. 
1 In a Tenasserim male (rmis. nostr.)^ while the wing and the eight 
middle rectrices measure a little over five inches, the outer pair of tail- 
feathers measure nineteen and a half. The outside length given in the 
Catalogue is 17-2. 
