132 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supjjlementary Notes 



339. Callene rufiventris. 



Blyth states that the female is brown, with the abdominal 

 patch whitish instead of rufous, " not unlike/' he says, Muscicapa 

 longipes, Garnot, Voy. Coquille, pi. xix. f. 1, assigned, perhaps 

 erroneously, to New Zealand. I had previously, p. 496, stated 

 that this bird appeared, " both from form and coloration, to be a 

 BracJujpteryx." 



339 bis. Callene albiventris, Blanford, P. Z. S. 1867, 

 p. 833, pi. 39 J Gould, B. Asia, pt. xx. pi. 16. The White- 

 bellied Short-wing. 



I append a short description : — Dusky cyaneous, the chin and 

 lores black ; a bluish white frontal band ; quills and tail- 

 feathers dusky, edged bluish ; the middle of the abdomen white, 

 the sides ashy; bill black; feet dusky; irides brown. 



Length 6 inches; wing 3-1; tail 2*6; bill at front 0*5; 

 tarsus 11, 



In this species the female is said to resemble the male, but to 

 be only a very little paler, thus differing from the other two 

 species. 



The egg is clay -coloured. 



340. Callene frontalis. 



The female is figured by Hodgson, along with the male, dusky 

 brown above, paler below ; but it is spotted, and is perhaps a 

 young bird. The nest also is figured, domed like a Wren's, and 

 the eggs clay-coloured, 



340 bis. Callene hodgsoni. 

 Acrocephalus, apud Moore. 

 Hodgson's Short-wing. 



Descr. Brown above, pale below, albescent on the throat and 

 mid belly ; base of tail rufous-tawny. 



Dimensions, Wing 2|, tail 3, tarsus 1|. 

 Hab. Nepal. 



This is probably the female of some species. Blyth has re- 

 ferred it to Callene. 



341. Hodgsonius phcenicurgides, 



I obtained this bird in Gulmurg, in Kashmir, in 1867, and 



