Mr. F. Moore on Birds from Northern India, 63 



February 28, 1854. — Dr. Gray, Vice-President, \\\ the Chair. 



Descriptions of some new and little-known species 

 OF Birds from Northern India, contained in the 

 Museum of the Hon. East India Company. By Fre- 

 deric Moore, Assist. Hon. Comp. Museum. 



Fam. Merulid-e, Vigors. 



Subfam. Myiotherina, Swains. 



Genus Pnoepyga, Ilodgs. 



Syn. Microvra, Gould (nee Ehrenb.). 



1. PnoIjpvga longicaudata, nobis. 



Colour of the upper parts deep olive-brown, the feathers slightly 

 margined with black, and having blackish shafts ; wings and tail in- 

 clined to ferruginous brown ; upper tail-coverts long ; throat whitish ; 

 breast and sides of abdomen pale dusky ferruginous, the feathers 

 having pale centres and blackish margins ; centre of lower part of 

 breast and abdomen white ; flanks the same as the back ; vent and 

 under tail-coverts dark ferruginous ; bill dark horn colour, legs paler. 



Length, 4^ inches ; of wing, 2 ; the tail is rounded, the central 

 feathers being 2i inches long, and the outer \\ inch ; bill to front, 

 through the feathers, ^ inch ; to gape, y*%- ; tarse, -^^. 



Hub. N. India. 



Genus Brachypteryx, Horsfield, p. s. d. 



2. Brachypteryx nipalensis, Hodgson. 



Male : colour above a greyish cyaneous, or light greyish blue, as 

 are also the cheeks, sides of breast and flanks, and paling to greyish 

 white on the centre of the breast ; throat, middle of belly, vent and 

 under tail-coverts, streak over but not extending beyond the eye, 

 white. Female : ferruginous brown above, paling on the sides ; 

 throat, breast, belly, under tail-coverts and streak over the eye, 

 whitish, the feathers on the breast and sides fringed with brown ; 

 bill dark horn colour, legs paler. 



Length, 4| inches ; of wing, 2\ ; tail. If ; bill to gape, f ; tarse, 1 . 



Ilab. Nepal (No. 943, Hodgs. Catal.). 



This species is allied to Br. cruralis, Blyth, but may readily be 

 distinguished by its smaller size, shorter tail, paler colour of the upper 

 parts, and by its white throat and belly. 



Genus Callene, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Bang. p. 136 (1847). 

 Syn. Cinclidium, Blyth (nee Gould). 



Gen. Char. "Bill shorter than the head, straight, slender, higher 

 than broad, the ridge of the upper mandible tolerably acute, and its 

 tip very slightly emarginated ; inferior gonys ascending for the ter- 

 minal half, imparting to the bill the appearance of a tendency to bend 

 upward : naral apertures in the form of elongate-oval fissures in the 

 lateral nasal membrane, and partially impended by the short semi- 



Ann. a^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Fo/. xvi. 5 



