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Bengal. They have avery peculiar suppressed note, resembling 
whono, uttered with such a degree of ventriloquism, that although 
you see the individual from which the sound escapes, you do not ex- 
pect it as the cause. In passing through the Sunderbunds in April 
last, this whono was almost the only sound I heard, and I was at first 
induced to suppose that it proceeded from some concealed animal in 
my boat.”—McClelland's MS. 
90. Centropus lepidus, Horsf., Linn. Trans., XIII. p. 180. 
Mr. McClelland’s specimen is comparatively of a large size, but 
agrees in all particulars with the Cent. lepidus from Java. 
Genus TRoGon. 
91. Trogon Hodgsonii, Gould, ‘Monograph of Trogonide.’ 
Tribus TENUIROSTRES, Cuv. 
Fam. CINNYRIDE. 
Genus CINNyRIS, Cuv. 
92. CinnyRis ASSAMENSIS. Cinn. nigrescens, capite supra gu- 
ldque metallice purpureis ; dorso et colli lateribus intense fusce- 
scenti-rubris ; plumis ad partem dorsi posteriorem flavido termi- 
natis; uropygio, tectricibus caude superioribus, rectricibusque 
caude duabus intermediis metallice purpureis ; his elongatis ; ab- 
domine et crisso flavido lavatis: rostro valdé incurvo, et quam 
caput paululiim longiore. 
This species is closely allied to Cinnyris Gouldia. 
93. CINNYRIS LABECULA. Punicea; guld pectoreque nitidissimis ; 
capite, plumis scapularibus, cauddque metallice aureo viridibus ; 
alis fuscis viridi nitentibus ; subtis cana. 
Body three inches, tail two inches long. 
Genus ARACHNOTHERA, Temm. 
94. Arachnothera inornata, Temm., Pl. Col. LXXXIV. 
Fig. 2. 
Fam. MELIPHAGIDZ. 
Genus Cutoropsis, Jard. & Selby. 
95. CHLOROPSIS CHRYSOGASTER. Supra viridis, nitens ; pectore 
abdomineque ex aurantio luteis ; guld, jugulo, lateribus colli, arcu- 
que per oculos ducto atris, conterminio arcté circumscriptis ; genis 
violaceis, maculd scapulari eruginosd ; tectricibus, remigibus pri- 
moribus, rectricibusque nigris, nitore violaceo ; pileo aureo subni- 
tente. 
In the specimens of the female the black mark on the throat and 
neighbouring parts is not apparent; the spots on the chin and 
shoulders are obscure ; but the general colour of the upper and lower 
parts is the same as in the male. 
Genus Dicaum, Cuv. 
96. Diceum erythronotum. Certhia erythronotos, Ind. Orn., I.290. 
Red-backed Creeper, Lath., Gen. Hist. of Birds, IV. 241. ‘ Soui- 
manga a dos rouge,’ Ois. dor., II. 57. Pl. XXXV. 
