226 Zoological Society : — 



and toes covered with white plumes ; claws pale flesh-colour ; bill 

 black. 



Length from tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 3f inches ; of 

 wing, 3|; of tail. If; bill to front, y^ ; to gape, -^i height from 

 chin to front, i ; breadth at front, ^\ ; tarse, -^ ; middle toe and 

 claw, -2% ; hind toe, -^q. 



Hub. Nepal. (No. 963. Hodgs. Catal.) 



This interesting bird diifers from the type of the genus Chelidon 

 by its smaller and more robust bill and by its shorter and even tail ; 

 the wings also are shorter. From the genus Cotyle it is at once di- 

 stinguished by its plumed feet. 



Notice of some New Species of Birds contained in the 

 Museum of the Hon. East India Company. 



By Frederic Moore, Assist. East Ind. Comp. Museum, r 



.A 

 -i Family Merulid^, Vigors. '" 



Subfamily Timalina, Vigors. 



Genus Pyctorhis, Hodgson (1844). Chrysomma (Blyth), 

 Hodgson (1845). 



1. Pyctorhis longirostris, Hodgson. 



Forehead, crown, nape, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail 

 rufous-brown, deepest on the crown, wings and tail, the last being 

 distinctly rayed ; chin, throat, base of lower mandible, middle of 

 belly and vent white ; ear-coverts, sides of the neck and breast pale 

 rufescent, brightening on the flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts also rufescent ; bill black, yellowish beneath at 

 base ; legs pale horny. 



Length, 8^ inches ; of wing, 2f ; tail, 3^; bill to frontal plumes, |; 

 to gape, 1 inch ; height from chin to front, -^-^•, tarse, 1 inch ; middle 

 toe and claw, \^ ; central and lateral ditto, -^ ; hind ditto, -f^. 

 •Bah. Nepal. (No. 892. Hodgs. Catal.) 



■ This bird may be distinguished from Fyct. sinensis (better known 

 under the name of Timalia hypoleiica) by its larger size, by the 

 lengthened bill, the rufescent colour of the under parts, and by the 

 absence of white before the eye. It may possibly be the species no- 

 ticed by Mr. I. W. Frith, in the * Journ. As. Soc. Beng.' xiii. p. 370, 

 as being found in Bengal, which he states " differs from the common 

 species in being about half larger.'* 



I may here notice, in connexion with this genus, that Mr. Hodg- 

 son, in *Proc. Zool. Soc' 1845, p. 24, refers his genus Pyctorhis only 

 to sinensis, and not to the bird named rufifrons, which is there 

 described as an Actinodura, it being synonymous with the species 

 previously described by Mr. Gould under the name of Actinodura 

 Egertoni. 



