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in it, and encouraged me in my first attempts to gain a know¬ 
ledge of the ornithology of the new country we were survey¬ 
ing. On returning from India in 1870, I made over to the 
British Museum all the Hornhills that I had collected in the 
Assam hills, and added to the above list the provisional name 
adopted for specimen No. 146 c. These Hornhills having 
been separated from the rest of my collection, this specimen 
passed out of my sight after it was given over to Mr. G. II. 
Gray. I am now sorry to find that the original labels have 
been removed and new ones substituted, a system which must 
have destroyed the value of a large number of donations to 
the British Museum, but one, I am glad to say, which is no 
longer followed. In this instance, to make matters worse, 
I find Khasi hills converted into Kaisi, the correct habitat 
being the North Cachar hills, the two districts differing very 
considerably in their physical features. 
I do not understand how Blyth fell into the error of con¬ 
sidering the specimen 146 c to be the ^^head in the possession 
of Lord Walden/^ and what the head he referred to can be 
I do not know. He may have seen one at Chislehurst, where 
my collection remained a long time in Lord Tweeddale^s care 
when I returned to India, and referred it to the bird I de¬ 
scribed, and which Jerdon, believing to be new, renamed. 
Lord Tweeddale has never seen the type of A. austeni; so 
that he was not in a position to make any remarks on what 
Blyth wrote in the list of Burmese birds; it is also evident 
that Blyth never saw the skin in the British Museum, which 
he would have identified with Craniorrhinus corrugatus. 
Further examination of this specimen, and comparison of the 
descriptions by Blyth of A. tickelli, and of my own from the 
living bird, have led me to the conclusion that it is only the 
young of the species the adult female of which will be found 
figured in ^ The Ibis ^ for 1864. I must, however, remark 
that in this plate the coloration of the lower parts appears to 
me to be far too red a rufous; for in the description Blyth 
gives the colour as ferruginous, rather pale, brightest on 
throat, dull and clouded with vinous ashy on belly 
We should also take the locality into consideration. Asalu 
is not by any means beyond the limits of range of A. tickelli, 
