MS. “Illustrations of Indian Ornithology 343 
genus Ptiloskelos and species P. amherstii (J. A. S. B. 1859, 
p. 448), which Mr. Blyth, at the time, correctly identified with 
Huhua orientalis juv. {t. c. p. 411, note). Ketupa ceylonensis , 
with the title of Strix dumeticola , Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1833), 
admitted as a synonym, and K. javanensis, are both figured, 
the latter from a Tenasserim adult male. A plate is devoted 
to Scops pennatus under the title of Ephialtes scops, and an¬ 
other to the young bird; and Scops sunia, from Tirhoot, is 
described and figured as a distinct species. Athene radiata *, 
Tickell, is stated to be “met with throughout the forest 
portion and lower hills of Arakan, Burma, and Tenasserim 
and of Glaucidium brodei Colonel Tickell remarks that while 
Darjeeling and Tenasserim birds do not differ in plumage, 
“ nevertheless it is remarkable that the notes of the bird in 
these two countries differ considerably.” 
Volume iii. treats on the Zygodactyli, and contains forty- 
six plates. Of these, five belong to the Parrots, twenty-one 
to the Woodpeckers, including Sasia , Vivia, and Yunx, five 
to the Barbets, and fifteen to the Cuckoos. 
Palceornisjavanicus (melanorhynchus ); figured from a cage- 
bird, is represented with a redf, instead of yellow, wing-patch, 
the. part being described of an Indian-yellow colour. The 
male and female are stated to have the upper mandible red, 
the under black, but the young to have the bill black, “ which 
colour the female retains till full maturity.” 
Picus atratus, Blyth, $ $ (Plate IX.), is figured; and the 
male is for the first time described. But both description and 
figure of the male are taken from an immature example, the 
scarlet on the head only reaching the vertex, whereas in the 
adult this colour covers the crown and occiput as well. The 
fulvous grey colouring of the frontal plumes of the female is 
somewhat exaggerated in hue and extent. P. atratus is not 
unlike P. maceei, but is distinguished by having the uropygium 
# Tickell’s specific denomination of radiata (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 572) 
for this Owl was, by misprint, converted into that of undulata by Blyth 
(J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 457). 
t It is so described by Jerdon (B. Ind. i. no. 152). 
