66 Zoological Society :— 



reflected frontal feathers ; gape armed with a few small setae ; wings 

 and tail romided, the 4th, oth and Cth primaries equal and longest ; 

 legs and toes slender, the tarsi smooth, nnscutellate, and very long, 

 as is also the middle toe ; claws but moderately curved, and of little 

 more than mean length ; plumage light, soft and full, having a scale- 

 like appearance on the crown, breast and belly." 



3. Callene frontale, Blyth. 



Syn. Cinclidium frontale, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 181, 

 xii. p. 954. t. p. 1010. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 301. 



Callene frontale, Blvth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 136 ; Catal. B. 

 Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 1>8. 



Ruticilla frontalis, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. 



Brachi/pteryx scapv.laris, Horsf. ISIS. 



Hah. Nepal (No. 950, IloJys. Catal.). 



Spec. Char. " Plumage dark fusco-cyaneous, the rump dusky ; 

 flanks somewhat ashy, and middle of the belly slightly grey-edged ; 

 lores and immediately above the beak blackish, contrasting with a 

 bright cserulean forehead ; bend of the wing also cserulean, but less 

 bright ; and winglet, primaries and their coverts, secondaries and ter- 

 tiarics, dark olive-brown ; a white spot on the under surface of the 

 wing, beneath the winglet ; bill black ; legs dusky brown. 



" Length, 7f inches ; of wing from bend, 3f ; middle tail-feathers, 

 3^, the outermost f of an inch shorter ; bill to forehead nearly f, to 

 gape if ; tarse, 1 f ; middle toe and claw, 1 ^ ; hind toe and claw, f ; 

 the last, f . 



" This bird is reported to be a fine songster, and heard chiefly in 

 the evening." — Blyth. 



Subfam. Timalina. 

 Genus Trichastoma, Blyth. 

 Syn. Malacocinclu, Blyth. 

 Gen. Char. "Bill as long as the head, rather stout, high, much 

 compressed, the tip of the upper mandible pretty strongly liooked, 

 but indistinctly cmarginated, and its ridge obtusely angulated towards 

 the base, the remainder scarcely angulated ; gape bnt little widened, 

 and feebly bristled ; noitrils large and subovate, with oval ajierture 

 to the front, a little removed from the base of the bill ; tarse of mean 

 length and strength, as long as the middle toe with its claw ; the 

 claws suited for perching, compressed, and moderately curved, that 

 of the hind toe rather large ; wings moderate, with the first [)rimar\' 

 reaching to about their middle, the second much shorter tlian the 

 third, and the fourth longest ; tail rather short, weak and even, ex- 

 cept that its outermost feathers are a little shorter than the rest ; 

 plumage full and lax, the coronal feathers somewhat elongated and 

 of a spatulate form." 



4. Trichastoma Abbotii, Blyth. 



Syn. Malacocinclu Ahhotti, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 601 

 (184.".). 



