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wardly with blue, the tips of the first four quills narrowly margined 

 with white, and outerly with blue, the tips of the inner webs of the 

 secondaries rufous chestnut, and those of the outer webs blue, with 

 a sub-triangular spot of white, the tertials only tipped on the outer 

 webs with the blue and white spot ; the three outer tail feathers 

 more or less marked on the tips with white, the under surface pale 

 pinky slate, the under tail coverts white. Length 6 in. 9 lin., bill 

 from gape 10 lin., from front 6^ lin., breadth at gape 6J lin., 

 wings 3 in. 6 lin., tarsi 9 lin. 



Halcyon capensis, p. 56, is the Alcedo amauropterus, Smith. 

 Halcyon brunniceps, Jerd. 



Ceryle rudis, p. 57, add Ceryle varia, Strickl. 



Merops viridis P p. 58. Bluish green ; throat and middle of 

 abdomen blue. 



Merops torquatus. Yellowish green ; throat blue ; band be- 

 neath each eye and a band beneath the blue of the throat, black. 

 These two species of Merops are only known by the figures. I 

 am inclined to suppose that they are immature states of the Me- 

 rops viridis. 



Myzanthe (Micrura) inornata, p. 60. The same species as 

 Myzanthe ignipectus. 



Troglodytes subhemalayanus, p. 62. Rufous brown, paler be- 

 neath ; body and tail transversely barred narrowly with black; 

 quills exteriorly, some of the wing coverts, and the feathers of the 

 flanks and vent spotted with white. Length 3^ in., bill from front 

 4 lin., from gape 5j lin., wings 1| in., tarsi 8 lin. 



Salicaria qffinis, p. 64. Upper surface dark brown ; throat 

 and middle of abdomen white ; breast dusky white, spotted with 

 black ; flanks pale rufous brown ; tail slightly barred with darker. 

 Length 5 in., bill from front 4j lin., from gape 6 lin., wings 2 in. 

 2 lin., tarsi 9 lin. 



Horeites brunnifrons, p. 65. Prinia brunnifrons, Hodgs. 

 Proc. Zool. 1845,;?. Ann. of Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 200. 



Hippolais Swainsoni, p. 65, is the Phyllopneuste nitidus, 

 Blyth. 



Phyllopneuste Trochilus /*, p. 65, is the Phyllopneuste magni- 

 rostris, Blyth. 



Phyllopneuste xanthochistos, p. 65. Head, back of neck and 

 back grayish white ; a streak above each eye springing from the 



