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phagce, one of which was partially protruding from his mouth, 

 when picked up. Its general character was dark ashy, darker on 

 the head, which was apparently slightly crested, the wings brown- 

 ish, the secondaries slightly and the tertiaries more broadly edged 

 with white, the upper tertials the same,forming a small wing-band. 

 The tail was brown, tipped with white, the throat and breast of 

 an ashy-white, and the rest of the underparts of a pure white 

 colour. The bill was broad at the base, much depressed, and 

 triangular, black above and on the tip of the lower mandible, 

 the base of which and the gape were tinged with orange-colour. 

 The legs were jet-black, the soles of the feet lighter in colour 

 than the rest of the legs. There was also a conspicuous white 

 ring round the eye. The dimensions were as follows : — Length 

 5; wing 2-75; tail 2; tarsus '-iSTS ; bill from front •4375, 

 breadth at base 2*55; extent 7*75. 



What, I may here ask, is the Erythrosterna rubropijgia ? which 

 name was appended by Mr. Blyth to a single female specimen 

 in my Darjeeling collection of 1862. 1 have never been able to 

 identify it satisfactorily. 



Bkachypteryx vel Callene, sp. ? 



A bird procured by me at Zwagaben is probably referable to 

 one or the other of these genera, and is apparently nearly 

 allied to the C albiventris recently described by Mr. Blanford 

 (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 832). The following are the dimensions of 

 my specimen : — Length 5'5 ; wing 2*95; tail 1*75; tarsus 1 ; 

 bill from front 4*95; spread foot 1'25; extent 8*5 inches. The 

 general colour above is olive-brown, with a slight tinge of rufous 

 on the upper wing-coverts ; the fourth quill of the wing is the 

 longest, with the third nearly equal to it, the tail is slaty-blue 

 and nearly square, the inner webs with more of a brownish' 

 tinge; the upper tail-coverts are slaty-blue, the throat and 

 breast white, with pencillings of brown, which increases towards 

 the flanks, and under the wings ; the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts pure white ; the bill brown, legs fleshy. A brownish- 

 white eyelid. It was apparently a bird of the year, and was 

 found on the ground, and flew when disturbed into a small 

 bush ; it has strong Turdine affinities. 



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