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ranging eastward to Cochin China and southward to Ma- 

 lacca, the Andamans and Nicobars. 



Seven specimens from the Himalaya , Darjeeling , Ma- 

 lacca , Andamans , and one said to be from Java. 



2. Otocompsa fuscicaudata. 



Otocompsa fuscicandnta Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664; Oates, B. Br. 



Ind. I, p. 277 (1889). 

 Otocompsa emeria Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 159 (1881). 



Hab. Western part of Southern India. 

 Not represented. 



Genus Centrolophus , n. g. 



Type: Centrolophus leucogenys (Gray & Hardw.). 



General color ashy, upper surface , the head excepted , 

 tinged with olive, feathers of the crown lanceolate, those 

 on the centre very much lengthened , forming a sharply 

 pointed crest which is more or less bent upwards , tail 

 tipped with white, under tail-coverts yellow. Tarsus longer 

 than culmen , wing longer than tail. Differs from all the 

 allied genera by the pointed crest. — One species known. 



1. Centrolophus leucogenys. 



Brachypus leucogenys Gray, in Hardw. 111. lad. Orn. I, pi. 35, fig. 3 



(1830). 

 Otocompsa leucogenys Jerd. B. Ind. II, p. 90 (1863); Sharpe, Cat. 



B. VI, p. 160 (1881). 

 Molpastes leucogenys Oates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 272 (1889). 



Hab. Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Bhutan. 

 Six specimens from Nepal, Darjeeling and Bhutan. 



Genus Molpastes Hume. 



Type: Molpastes haemorrhous (Gm.). 



General aspect ashy brown, no green whatever in the 

 plumage , head black , crown-feathers thickly set and leng- 

 thened , but not pointed , forming a sort of short crest 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseuni , Vol. XVII. 



