204 Zoological Society. 



of the tail, yet strictly Alaudine in all their details, with the primes 

 ungradate, the tertials equal to primes, and all the centrals notched 

 at the tips and emarginated on the outer web towards the tips, as in 

 the Alaudines ; 1st quill equal to 5th, and both rather less than 2, 3, 4, 

 which are equal and longest ; tail ample, scansorial, that is, distinctly 

 rigid, and the separate plumes acutely wedged ; form of the tail Pa- 

 rian, or slightly gradate from centre and from sides ; legs and feet 

 strong and typically ambulant, with high scutellate tarse and medial, 

 compressed, full, solid toes, having the laterals equal, the central 

 sufficiently long, and the hind least and not depressed ; nails simple, 

 slender, fully curved ; hind long and nearly equal to the digit. 



Exclusively monticolous ; found in the brushy uplands of the cen- 

 tral region ; feed and breed on the ground ; food grylh and other in- 

 sects and seeds ; stomach strongly muscular ; intestines of medial 

 length and furnished with tiny caeca. Nest made loosely of grass 

 and saucer- shaped ; eggs bluish, thickly spotted. Type, H. sylvana, 

 mihi. 



H. sylvana. — Above clear brown, picked out marginally with clear 

 rufous, as in the Larks ; below rufescent, with narrowing central 

 stripes ; chin immaculate ; a dark mustache ; superciliary line pale ; 

 tail-feathers internally and laterally albescent ; upper coverts pro- 

 longed and pointed, as in the Larks ; bill sordid fleshy or horn ; 

 legs clear, carneous ; iris brown ; sexes alike. Length, 7| inches ; 

 bill to gape, W ; tail, 2 J ; wing, 3 ; tarse, 1^ ; central toe and nail. 



Remark. — This singular bird has been thus particularly described 

 because of the difficulty of sparing details by anything like an assured 

 allocation of it. It seems to be an analogous form to Praticola, and 

 to belong to the Alaudince, near Brachonyx. Its tail in form reminds 

 one of Dolichonyx. 



pARIANiE } 



Genus Accentor, Auct. 



These birds are found in the central and northern regions of the 

 hills only, and chiefly in the northern. We have four species, all of 

 which are I believe new. 



1. Ace. Nipalensis, mihi. — Head and neck dusky olive ; body above 

 ferruginous, with large central dashes of black ; shoulders and all the 

 wing-coverts dusky, with white drops ; alars and caudals blackish, 

 with ochreous red margins ; breast and belly ochreous ; under coverts 

 of the tail dusky, picked out with white ; bill dusky, with a yellow 

 horn base ; iris golden brown ; legs sordid brown. Length, 6 J inches ; 

 bill, \% ; tail, 2f ; wing, 3^ ; tarse, 1 ; central toe and nail, |f ; 

 hind, if 



2. Ace. Cacharensis, mihi. — Very similar in colours to the last, 

 but larger, and the wing proportionally longer ; head and neck, 

 shoulders and wing- coverts dusky ; throat white, with black bars ; 

 breast and belly deep clay-red ; back and upper tail-coverts rusty, 

 with large central blotches of blackish ; alars and caudals blackish, 

 margined and tipt with rusty red ; vent dusky, picked out with 



