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Show 1871.] DR.T. SALVADORI ON CERIORNIS CABOTI. 695 Female (or young male) olivaceous brown above, the feathers with paler margins, which have a brighter red tinge on the rump, wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers; lower parts pale umber. The tarsi are shorter than in P. nipalensis, rather stouter and much more strongly scutellate, besides being apparently rather paler in colour ; the claws are rather larger; and the bill appears to be stouter ; but this last difference may be due to individual peculiarity. The coloration of the new species is very different from that of P. nipalensis. The bird in summer plumage may owe its olivaceous tint to being a young male, and the female of P. rubescens may be as dully tinted as that of its congener ; but the male is altogether paler and lighter in colour, and wants the deep rich crimson of the back and breast, the rosy throat, and pink abdomen of P. nipalensis, being rather a brown or greyish-brown bird, with the feathers margined with red. It still remains to be ascertained what is Hodgson's female P. nipalensis. As I have remarked above, the dull-coloured bird sent to me may be a young male ; but I scarcely think that the difference in the tarsi from those of P. nipalensis would have escaped so sharp an ornithological eye as Mr. Hodgson's, or that the bird described by him as the female of P. nipalensis can have belonged to the species now distinguished. 6. Note on Ceriornis caboti. By THOMAS SALVADORI, M.D., C.M.Z.S. [Eeceived November 4, 1871.] CERIORNIS CABOTI. Ceriornis caboti, Gould, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 161 ; ejusd. Birds of Asia, pt. x. pl. 2; Sclat. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 123; Swinh. Ibis, 1865, p. 350 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 164. In the King of Italy's private collection at Florence is a Ceriornis which was brought from some Chinese port alive by an Italian trader in Silkworm-seed, and arrived alive in Genoa, but died before reaching its destination in His Majesty's aviary. Prof. Giglioli some time ago sent me a drawing of it, which so much differed from Gould's plate, that at first I thought it represented a different species. But when I compared the specimen itself with the plate I was convinced that it was really a fully adult specimen of C. caboti, and I accounted for the differences by supposing that the specimen represented by Gould was not fully adult, or in an imperfect state of preservation. The differences regard the head and the tail, while the body and win°*s are exactly the same. The tail in Gould's plate wants the large black band at the end, which is very conspicuous in the specimen before me. More important are the differences in the head. In Gould's |