Long. tot. 8 unc. ; rostri, 1 ; aU, 4 ; cauda:, 3^ ; tarsi, l 



Kostrum pedesąue comeo-brunnei. 



Hab. in montibus Himalayensibus. in .Nepalid. &c 



hairy bnstles usual in the genus. ^ 



cinereis ahs albo late/asciahs ; capite, colio, corporeoue subtUs 



w to{'8Tr'- '^T'^r^T' '''''''''''' infeLrit::::!-'' 



įong. tot. 8 unc. ; rostri, 1 ; alte, 4+; ea^rf^, 2' ; tarsi U 

 /?05^rw?n nigrum ; /am brunnei, *'. ^t- 



/^a6. in Java. 

 This pretty species resembles in manv re«Dert<? tb^ 7?^^ a 



fScf "^ f tT'"' '^'^^'^^- '' belon^to^^n Ltetstfngtrup' 

 wh ch wa3 first characterized by M. Kul| and of wluch the SofSv^s 

 collection possesses four weU-marked species. ^ 



a spec men of the r«;Y/«5 macrourus of Dr. Latham. with the viw 

 of explaining the characters which induced him to reeard thaf 1 fJ 

 as constituting the type of a new ^ ^^^ ''''^'^ 



Genus Kittacincla. 



i?as/r«m caput longitudine squans, ad apicem emarginatum rec 

 tiusculum, compressiusculum. gmatum, rec- 



Nares basales. plumis brevibus utplurimum tectae 



^/^ mediocres, rotundatae : remige Ima brevissimd. 4ta 5tdaue 

 subseąuabbus, longioribus. otaque 



CftMrfa elongata, gradata. 



Tarsi digitiąue longiusculi, tenues 

 vel^aj'bus^^'"^"' '°^°' '^P'" utplurimum niger; subtus brunneus 



A paper by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., on some of 

 the Scolopaad^ of Nipai. was read; the copy transmitted bTthat 

 gentleman to the Society containing various^coįrect^ons of his me 



Mr. Hodgson's object in the present paper is to bring under the 

 notice of zoo ogists the various species of the fam^^ferred to 

 which occur m Nip^l, on the natūrai history of which count^. he 



mn%tT^-^ "'''^''''^ °^ ''""''^^ y^^«' ^'^^ engaged in makin^ 

 most extens.ve researches. The result of these it is his inSon 



irfnS IC'f' T"P-^^^ '^ fi°^^^^^ repres^ntatro 

 tne animals, taken from drawings made in almost everv instance 

 from numerous hving individuals of the several races. ^ 



W ižSorT '' "•'''•?'' ^" ^'.'^^ '^' ^""'"'°« Woodcock, Sco. 

 rfZ ,'.• ^"i"' ^ '* °'^'^"''« ^" Nipal; where it is in everv 

 brT I°n Si Y >'°"'' -identlyidLtical..ith the Europ'a^ 

 bird. In Nipžl also it seems to be. as it is in Westem Europe, of 



