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1 inch shorter ; bill to frontal plumes yV^s, to gape y^^hs ; and 

 tarse -^ths of an inch. 



Hab. China. In the collection of John Gould, Esq. 



3. Orites (?) NivEOGULARis, GoiUd, MS. 



Forehead white, passing to buff-brown on the back of the head, 

 nape, and fore-part of the back, and thence to the tail grey, tinged 

 with isabeUine on the rump ; lores, over the eyes and ear-coverts 

 black, passing into the brown on the nape ; ear-coverts blackish 

 anteriorly and brownish-buff posteriorly, and somewhat striped 

 longitudinally with white ; base of lower mandible, chui, throat, 

 fore-part of breast, and sides of the neck to the nape behind the ear- 

 coverts snowy -white, and contrasting with a brownish band which 

 runs from the nape across the middle of the breast ; the lower part of 

 the breast with the abdomen pale pinky-isabelline passing to white 

 in the middle of the belly : wings brown, margined with greyish- 

 white, coverts and speculars blackish : tail dusky-black, margined 

 externally with greyish-white, its outermost feathers white on the 

 outer web. Bill black, longish, and slender as in O. jouschistos, 

 Hodgson ; feet yellowish. 



Length A^ inches ; of wing 2|- ; tail 2|-ths, its outermost feather 

 i inch shorter ; bill to frontal plumes ^ths to i^ths ; tarse ^ths 

 of an inch. 



Hab. N. India. In the collection of John Gould, Esq. 



RemarJ^. — These three new species, together \\\i\\ O. erythro- 

 cephalus. Vigors, and 0. jouschistos, Hodgs., will, I believe, upon 

 further examination, prove to form two separate divisions, distinct 

 from the genus Orites ; the species named erythrocephalus, leuco- 

 yenys, and ylaucogularis forming one division, and jouschistos with 

 niveogularis the second. 



Notice of some imperfectly-known species of Birds 



CONTAINED IN THE MuSEUM OF THE HON. EaST InDIA COM- 

 PANY. By Frederic Moore. 



Fam. Merulid^, Vigors. 



Subfam. Brachypodina, Swainson. 



Genus Ixulus, Hodgson, P. Z. S. (1845) p. 23. 



1. IxuLus occipitalis, Blyth. 



Siva occipitalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 937. (1844.) 

 Ixulus occipitalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 5,j2. xvi. p. 448; 

 Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng., p. 100. 



Hab. Sikim, Nepal. (No. 9.55, Hodgson's Catalogue.) 



" Colour dull brownish olive-green above, the shafts of the dorsal 



and scapular feathers pale ; below much lighter and rufescent, the 



throat whitish, the feathers of the fore-neck having dark shafts : 



crown, nape, and lower tail-coverts ferruginous-brown, which also 



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