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507. Larvivora cyana. Blue AVood-Chat. Darjeeling 

 collection, 1862. 

 One specimen only. 



512. Calliope kamtschatkensis. Ruby-throat. 



Found near Barrackpore, in thick thorny hedges, November 

 1864. 



513. Calliope pectoralis. White-tailed Ruby-throat. 

 Simla, September 23rd, 1866. A young male, with tail but 



partially developed, was caught in a trap alive below Colonel 

 Gott's house in the station and brought to me alive, but died on 

 the road. The following are the dimensions :— Length 5*75 ; 

 wing 2'75; tail 1*875, tipped with white on all but the middle 

 pair of feathers ; tarsus 1'375 ; bill from front "5625 ; extent 8'5. 

 Bill and legs dark brown. I had not previously observed this 

 bird here, and I only got one specimen. 



514. Cyanecula suecica. Blue-throat. 



Collected at Barrackpore, 1864. A specimen in the tlesh 

 measured, length 5*5, wing 2'75 — considerably less than Dr. 

 Jerdon^s. Observed also about Umballah in sugar-canes in 1865, 

 tolerably abundant. Again at Umballah, October 24, 1866, when 

 I secured specimens. Length 6 ; wing 2*875 ; tail 2*25 -, tarsus 

 1*0625 ; spread of foot 1*25 ; bill from front nearly '5, from 

 gape nearly "75 ; extent 8*625. 



516. Acrocephalus DUMETORUM. Lesser Rccd- Warbler ? 



Two specimens procured at Barrackpore, November 22, 1864, 

 are perhaps referable to this species. Length 5*5 ; legs greenish, 

 the rest as in Dr. Jerdon's description of that species. It haunts 

 hedgerows and thick clumps of bamboos, and utters the sharp 

 ''titick" described by Hutton (Cat., Nos. 497, 498, of 1864). 



518. Arundinax OLiVACEUS. Thick-billed Reed- Warbler ? 



Colonel Tytler has referred some small AVarblers procured by 

 me at Umballah, in October 1866, to this species ; but my dimen- 

 sions do not agree at all with Dr. Jerdon's. I append a descrip- 

 tion : — Olive-brown above, and dusky- white beneath, most pure 

 on the throat and abdomen, and inclining to fulvous on breast 

 and under tail-coverts. Irides greyish-brown. 



