54 CORTlDiE. 



maries; bill and feet black; iris dark brown. Total length 13 

 inches, culmen 1-95, wing 7'3, tail 5-2, tarsus 1*1. 



NestUn;/. Head, neck, back, and underparts generally dull dirty 

 brown, each feather having the shaft dirty white, which colour in 

 many widens at the tip into a drop-shaped spot, all these feathers 

 being very loose in texture ; wings and tail as in the adult bird, but 

 duller in colour ; wing-coverts tipped with dull white ; under taU- 

 00 verts dirty white. {Dresser, B. Eur. I. c.) 



Bab. Northern and central portions of Europe and Northern 

 Asia, ranging into Northern China. 



a. Ad. st. Kent. William George, Esq. [P.]. 



b. AA.sk. Sweden, Oct. 19, 1859. Prof. A. W. Malm [P.]. 



c. Ad. St. Jura, France. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.] 



d. Ad. St. Germany. Dr. Kaup [P. : N. macrorhynclws]. 



e. Ad. sk. Germany. Dr. Kaup [P.]. 



/. Jun. sk. Germany. Dr. Kaup [P. : N. brachjrhijnchiis]. 



ff. Ad. st. Russia. Moscow ^luseum [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Russia. Moscow Museum [P.J. 



*'. Ad. sk. Kamtschatka. Purchased. 



k. Skeleton. Norfolk. Purchased. 



/. Skull. S. Germany. Dr. Gunther. 



2. Nucifraga hemispila. 



Nucifraga hemispila, Vic/ors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8 ; Gould, Cent. Himal. 



B. pi. 36 ; Hodgs. in Grat/s Zool. llisc. p. 81 ; Grai/, Cat. Mamm. 



8,0. Nepal Hudys. p. 102 ; id. Gen. B. ii. p. 313 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. 



XV. p. 2o ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 90 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 383 ; 



Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 229 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 



Co. ii. p. 563 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 304 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, 



p. 38 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 9 ; David, N. Areh. Mus. Bull. 



p. 9 ; Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 382 ; Hume, Nests 8,- Eggs Ind. B. 



p. 415. 

 Nucifraga immaculata, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 36 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 9*. 



Adult. Crown of head uniform black ; back and scapulars brown, 

 distinctly streaked on the mantle with longitudinal spots of white ; 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform brown, the 

 latter glossed with greenish; wings glossy greenish black; tail 

 greenish black, the two centre feathers not tipped with white, the 

 rest with a broad white tip, gradually increasing in size towards 

 the outermost, which are white for the terminal half ; bristles over 

 the nostrils blackish, streaked with white ; lores white ; feathers 

 behind the upper part of the eye and sides of face and of neck 



* Nucifraga immacidata was founded by the late Mr. Blyth on one of the 

 Hodgsonian drawings (not two, as he says ; at least I cannot find two, and 

 Mr. Hodgson only refers to one). This drawing contains two figures (Nos. 519, 

 620, Hodgs. Cat.), one being a dark N. hemispila, and the other being a pale- 

 coloured bird, the type of JV. immacidata. No unspotted specimen exists in the 

 collection ; and I believe that it is an unfinished drawing of N. hemispila, the 

 white spots not having been added. 



