Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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    Karen hills very closely resembles the Malabar bird; the colour of the males is however perhaps a shade lighter, approaching more nearly to 1. cyanea.] i Fam. Oriolidce. Orioles. *481. PsAEornoLTJS trajxlii (JT. 474). Pastor traillii, Vigors; Gould, B. As. pt. xxiii. pi. 5. Arakan, Tenasserim. A mountain species, inhabiting the more elevated forests. In Hainan and Formosa it is represented by P. ardens, Swinhoe, as in Java by 0. sanguinolentus, Tem. [Tonghoo, Karen hills, Karen nee (W. P.). Swainson’s generic title, Analcipus, has precedence. The oldest title for the Javan species is cruentus, AVagler.] *482. Okiolus melanocephalus (J. 472). Loriot dc la Chine, P.E. 79. Arakan, Tenasserim provinces, Malayan peninsula. [Tonghoo, Yey-tho, Thayet Myo, Karen nee (IF. A.).] *483. 0. ixdicus (J. 471). 0. indicus, Jerdon, Ill. Orn. pi. 15. Arakan, Tenasserim, China, Java. The Couliavan of Buffon, P. E. 570, upon which is founded 0. chinensis, L., does not represent this species, but 0. acrorhynchus, Vigors, which appears to he peculiar to the Philippines. [Rangoon (W. P.). The Rangoon individuals, all in perfect plumage, cannot be separated from China examples. They must therefore take the title of 0. chinensis. The title of 0. hippocrepis, Wagler, cannot bo used for any species of Oriole, as it was applied to Indian, China, Cochinchina, Javan, and Sumatran examples generally, and, moreover, included the Philip¬ pine 0. acrorhynchus. D’Aubenton’s plate, above alluded to (P. E. 570), the subject of which may have been described by Montbeillard, not Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 262), certainly agrees best with 0. acrorhynchus, Vigors. But Linnseus founded no title on it. Montbeillard identified, by reference his Coulavan with Brisson’s 0. cochinsinensis, described from individuals obtained in Cochinchina by Poivre, and brought by him to Reaumur. On Brisson’s species 0. chinensis, Lin., was founded, but the description in the “ Ornitho- logia” applies better to the Chinese bird than to the Philippine.]