of Assam Mammalia and Birds, 461 



Bengal. They have a very peculiar suppressed note, resembling 

 whono, uttered with such a degree of ventriloquism, that although 

 you see the individual from which the sound escapes, you do not ex- 

 pect it as the cause. In passing through the Sunderbunds in April 

 last, this whono was almost the only sound I heard, and I was at first 

 induced to suppose that it proceeded from some concealed animal in 

 my boat."— McClelland' s MS. 



90. Centropus lepidus, Horsf., Linn. Trans., XIII. p. 180. 



Mr. McClelland's specimen is comparatively of a large size, but 

 agrees in all particulars with the Cent, lepidus from Java. 



Genus Trogon. 



91. Trogon Hodgsonii, Gould, 'Monograph of Trogon idae.' 



Tribus Tenuirostres, Cuv. 



Fam. Cinnyridje. 



Genus Cinnyris, Cuv. 



92. Cinnyris Assamensis. Cinn. nigrescens, capite supra gu- 

 l&que metallice purpureis ; dorso et colli lateribus intense fusee- 

 scenti-rubris ; plumis ad partem dorsi posteriorem flavido termi- 

 natis ; uropygio, tectricibus caudce superioribus , rectricibusque 

 cauda duabus intermediis metallice purpureis ; his elongatis ; ab- 

 domine et crisso flavido lavatis : rostro valde incurvo, et quam 

 caput paululum longiore. 



This species is closely allied to Cinnyris Gouldice. 



93. Cinnyris labecula. Punicea ; guld pectoreque nitidissimis ; 

 capite, plumis scapularibus, cauddque metallice aureo viridibus ; 

 alis fuscis viridi nitentibus ; subtus cana. 



Body three inches, tail two inches long. 



Genus Arachnothera, Temm. 



94. Arachnothera inornata, Temm., PI. Col. LXXXIV. 

 Fig. 2. 



Fam. Meliphagidje. 



Genus Chloropsis, Jard. & Selby. 



95. Chloropsis chrysogaster. Supra, viridis, nit ens ; pectore 

 abdomineque ex aurantio luteis ; guld, jugulo, lateribus colli, arcu- 

 que per oculos ducto atris, conterminio arete circumscriptis ; genis 

 violaceis, maculd scapulari ceruginosd ; tectricibus, remigibus pri- 

 moribus, rectricibusque nigris, nitore violaceo ; pileo aureo subni- 

 tente. 



In the specimens of the female the black mark on the throat and 

 neighbouring parts is not apparent ; the spots on the chin and 

 shoulders are obscure ; but the general colour of the upper and lower 

 parts is the same as in the male. 



Genus Dicjeum, Cuv. 



96. Dicceum erythronotum. Certhia erythronotos, Ind. Orn., 1. 290. 

 Red-backed Creeper, Lath., Gen. Hist, of Birds, IV. 241. ' Soui- 

 manga a dos rouge,' Ois. dor,, II. 57. PI. XXXV. 



