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Show 1866.] VISCOUNT WALDEN ON BIRDS FROM TENASSERIM. 539 young birds; bill orange; legs yellow." Malabar, Subhimalayan, and Burmese individuals are regarded as identical by Messrs. Blyth and Jerdon. Mr. Blyth also, in his catalogue, identified Indian with Javan specimens preserved in the Calcutta Museum-an interesting fact; for the intermediate countries of the Malay peninsula are inhabited by a distinct species, L. galgulus, (Linn.). The line of contact between the two species has yet to be recorded. An analogous fact is the existence of a third distinct species (L. asiaticus) in Ceylon, to which small area it is confined; while north of the Straits of Manaar the country of L. vernalis commences. 4. GECINUS VIRIDANUS, (Blyth). Picus viridanus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 1000, d; 1844, p. 394, 2 • No. 20. Schouay Goon, Salween River. " Irides dark purple ; bill dark horny above, greenish yellow beneath, except tip, which is darker; legs and claws dull greenish yellow." A male in full plumage with scarlet crest. Mr. Blyth (Cat. Calc. Mus.) subsequently identified his G. viridanus, which was founded on Arakan specimens, with the Javan dimidiatus, Temm. But I cannot find any note of his having compared specimens from the two localities, and Javan specimens did not exist in the Calcutta Museum when the catalogue was framed. Malherbe has followed Mr. Blyth, but without assigning a reason ; and Sundevall (Consp. Av. Picinarum) has adopted the same view. In the India Museum, however, both Mr. Blyth's type and the Javan bird are preserved; and in their catalogue of that collection Messrs. Horsfield and Moore enumerate them as distinct, an opinion in which I concur. Pegu specimens of the nearly allied G. striolatus, Blyth, are preserved in the British Museum. \ 5. YUNGIPICUS CANICAPILLUS, (Blyth). Picus canicapillus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 197. No. 29, 2 • Schouay Goon, Salween River. " Bill horny; legs greenish." The presence of a red streak on each side of the head of the specimen sent inclines m e to regard Captain Beavan's determination of the sex as erroneous. This bird is nearly related to the Javan form, the moluccensis of Blyth and of Horsfield and Moore, but not of Malherbe, which is, according to that author, from the Philippines and Moluccas. According to Mr. Blyth, the form which inhabits the peninsula of Malacca is identical with the Java bird ; and specimens from both regions existed in the Calcutta Museum. In the specimen sent the crown is of a light greyish brown, readily distinguishable from the dark-rufous-brown occiput of a Javan male in m y collection. The bill is equal in length, but much stouter; the wings are perceptibly longer; the longitudinal streak on the breast-feathers is broader and of a darker brown ; and the general shade of the brown plumage is deeper than in my Javan specimen. Malherbe has omitted to notice the Javan form ; but, on Mr. Blyth's assertion of its identity with the Malaccan bird |
