MS. “Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.” 355 
being sent to Blyth at Calcutta, that gentleman (J. A.S. B. 
Xxvili. p. 418) described it with the title of Sidia melanoleuca, 
Tickell. In the following number of the journal (/.c. no. 5. 
p. 491) Colonel Tickell described the bird again, calling it 
Stbia picata; and under this title it is described and figured ; 
and the plate is one of the most valuable in his work. 
The Nightjars, Trogons, Broadbills, Swallows, Swifts, Bee- 
eaters, Rollers, Kingfishers, and Hornbills, under the general 
title Fissirostres, form the subjects of volume vii., and are 
represented on fifty-three plates. The first illustrates a species 
of Batrachostomus, obtained near Tongu-ngoo, Burma, and 
identified by Colonel Tickell with B. moniliger (Layard). 
The figure very accurately represents B. affinis, Blyth, in 
bright chestnut plumage, a species which can hardly be sepa- 
rated from B. moniliger. 
Caprimulgus asiaticus 1s beautifully and most artistically 
figured under the title of C. mahrattensis, with which totally 
distinct Nightjar Colonel Tickell confounds the commoner 
species. 
From examples of male and female obtained in Bora- 
bhoom, near the northern limits of its range, Harpactes fas- 
ciatus is well delineated, and on the succeeding plate the 
Javan Trogon, H. orescius, from specimens obtained in Te- 
-nasserim. 
Tenasserim is the radiating point ot the Hurylemide. All 
the generic types, one or other of which extend to the Hima- 
layas, to the Indo-Chinese countries, the Malayan peninsula, 
and the three great islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, 
are to be found in that province and Arracan*. Six of these 
species are figured from examples obtained in Tenasserim 
by Colonel Tickell, who gives interesting accounts of their 
habits. 
None of Colonel Tickell’s drawings surpass in beauty those 
of the Swallows; and while the delineations of all six species 
* E. ochromelas may be an exception; but it is included by Mr. Blyth 
(B. Burma, no. 432). The Bornean form of Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchus 
can hardly be considered a separate species. The Sumatran Psarisomus 
psittacinus may be sufficiently differentiated from P. dalhousie to constitute 
a distinct species. 








