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bird should prove a distinct species, I would suggest the name of 
Sutoria agilis for it. 
Weight of the male 23 drachms. 
Length from bill to tail 54 inches. Alar extent 63 inches. 
Head: bill long, slender and curved towards the point. Culmen 
slightly divides the frontal feathers, and is nearly on a line with the 
top of the head: there is an almost obsolete notch at the end of the 
upper mandible. Tongue short, slightly extensible, and divided into 
several filaments at the point. Gape wide, commissure under the 
eye; a small denuded spot above the commissure. Nostrils basal, 
pyriform, under a tegument; some small bristles and feathers re- 
flexed from the canthus of the eye towards the bill and over the 
nares. Eyes small. Iris greenish yellow. Eyelashes edged with 
small feathers. Eyelids bare. Four remarkable (but inconspicuous) 
bristles, like feathers, project from the back part of the occiput. 
Wings short and perfectly rounded ; first quill only half as long as 
the second; fourth and fifth quills are longest ; the second, third 
and fourth graduated ; the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh 
quills are emarginate“on the outer web. 
Tail of twelve graduated feathers, the two outer being the short- 
est ; under-coverts are long. 
Legs long, the tarsus iths of an inch; the outer toe longer than 
the inner. Hallux very strong, and as long as the outer toe, with a 
large pad beneath the base, its claw the largest; the tarsus is co- 
vered with seven scales in front and one entire behind; two large 
scales lie across the front of the foot; the claws are curved and 
sharp. 
Contents of stomach a mass of insect exuvie. 
Colours : all above dull green, tinged with ash, light brown towards 
the end of the tail and quills, which are lighter on the edges. Two- 
thirds of the front breadth of the neck, round the eye, the breast, 
belly and thighs (except a chestnut spot on the hallux) are silver- 
white ; there is, besides, a remarkable spot on the neck, of a brown 
colour, as if the white feathers had been deranged, showing the 
roots of a different colour. Bill ash-brown or horn-colour, the 
lower jaw lighter, and both lighter on the edges, as also are the 
legs and claws of the same colour; forehead of a fine chestnut ; 
crown of olive-brown. 
3. NoTes ON A NEW SPECIES OF ARTAMUS, FROM INDIA. 
By Dr. NicHo.Lson. 
(Aves, Pl. XLIII.) 
These birds are only found in very thick jungles among the brush- 
wood, where they are always moving about, and are shot with great 
difficulty, and even then, if not killed outright, they are so tenacious 
of life, that they creep into the first hole or crevice they come to. 
The only note I ever heard was like ‘chick, chick.’ I think they 
