116 Mr. E. Blyth on the Ornithology of the neighbourhood of 



v. Chloropsis, vide J. A. S. B. no. 59. p. 955 et seq. I cannot just now 

 enlighten Mr. Strickland on the subject of the structure of these 

 birds, further than by remarking that the species with a curved and 

 pointed bill have also a meliphagous conformation of tongue, by- 

 means of which, when caged, they will sip at sweets, but they re- 

 quire to be fed on the usual diet given to insectivorous birds. Vide 

 Tickell's list for a slight notice of their habits *. 



No. 153. Dicaum Tickellice has a pale flesh-coloured bill with 

 dusky tip. Vide J. A. S. B. no. 59. n. s. p. 983f. 



Nos. 154 and 155. My Vinago militaris is the species so designated 

 by Gould, having an ash- coloured belly, and which abounds in Bengal 

 and Nepal. That of Southern India, V. (or Treron) chlorig aster, 

 nobis, I have once only obtained in this part, and have received spe- 

 cimens of it from Mr. Jerdon and others. I cannot recognise, how- 

 ever, the difference of size and structure of bill mentioned by Mr. 

 Strickland \, the only distinctions consisting in the green or yellowish- 

 green belly of TV. chlorig aster , the absence of this colour on the basal 

 half of the tail, and there is also at most but a faint trace of the same 

 hue upon the forehead. TV. bicinctus of India generally, and also 

 Arracan, differs from TV. vernans of the Malay countries, in having 

 the forehead to beyond the eyes, the throat and sides of the neck 

 bright green, the occiput alone gray, and the pinkish lilac hue sur- 

 mounting the orange-colour of the breast diminished in quantity, 

 and not spreading to the sides of the neck, while in TV. vernans it 

 quite surrounds the neck ; the tail also is broadly tipped with ash- 

 colour, appearing as ashy-white beneath, this character serving at 

 once to distinguish the females, while the female TV. aromaticus may 

 be known from that of TV. bicinctus by its ash-coloured forehead. 



The Sphenocercus (G. R. Gray) cantillans, nobis, J. A. S. B. xii. 

 166, is said to occur in the Soonderbuns, though I rather doubt it, 



* Having lately procured specimens of Phyllornis in which the tongue 

 is preserved, I am now satisfied that they belong to the Tenuirostres and not 

 to the Pycnonotince. — H. E. S. 



f There can now be no doubt that Diceum Tickellice is the Certhia ery- 

 throrhyncha of Latham, and the latter specific name should be adopted. — 

 H.E.S. 



\ This was owing to my having (at p. 38, supra) assumed as the true 

 militaris a Malayan bird which now appears to be distinct and undescribed. 

 It is the largest species of Treron known, with the beak very strong and 

 almost Vulturine in form. Total length 14 inches; beak to gape 1 inch 

 4 lines ; height 5* lines ; wing 7f inches ; medial rectrices 5 inches, ex- 

 ternal 4£. My specimens are wholly greenish-gray above, greater covers 

 and quills slaty-black, the middle covers and tertials margined externally 

 with bright yellow, four medial rectrices greenish-gray, the rest slate-co- 

 loured tinged with green, and broadly tipped with light gray. Below pale 

 grayish-green, a large patch on the breast of dull orange. Lower tail-covers 

 chocolate (in a younger specimen gray, tipped with buff); beak plumbeous, 

 pale yellow towards the end ; legs flesh-colour. This species may be called 

 Treron magnirostris. The true militaris of Temminck and Gould, which is 

 the phcenicoptera of Latham, inhabits Northern India, as shown by Mr. Blyth, 

 and the chlorigaster, Blyth (which name is prior to mine oi Treron Jerdoni), 

 occurs in the South of India. — H. E. S. 



