290 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Crown glossy steel-black, changing lo unglossed black on the 

 nape, neck, and interscapulars ; from whence to the base of the 

 tail feathers the colour is dark cinereous : all the under parts 

 pure uniform cinereous, rather paler than the rump ; bill short, 

 broad. 



29. Pachyrynchus niger. 



Sooty black both above and beneath : crown glossy 

 steel-black : wings and tail blacky margined and tipt 

 with white. Spurious quill half as long as the second : 

 bill rather narrow. 



Inhabits Brazil. Mus. Nost. 



Size of the last, from which it is at once distinguished by 

 the under plumage being almost as black as the upper. 

 Although, in a young state, the under parts are dark cinereous, 

 yet they are never so light as in my SpLiii. The white 

 markings on the wings and tail of the last four species are all 

 the same, and their general similarity of plumage is analo- 

 gous to that which belongs to Psaris Brazilienses and its 

 allies. 



30. Oriolus Hodsonii.^ 



Yellow, with a black hood over the head and neck : 

 quills yellow edged, and tipt with white : all the tail 

 feathers with a central black band. Wings less than five 

 inches long : tail short. 



Inhabits Nepal. 



Resembling Oriolus melanocephalus of India ; but much 

 smaller, and the tips of the quills are white instead of yellow : 

 middle feathers of the tail yellow, with a black bar nearly across 

 their centre. Total length about 7 inches ; bill, from the gape 

 1 ; front ^ ; wings 4fg ; tail, beyond, ^ ; tarsus ^. 



31. Crateropus rufifrons. 



Fulvous brown above and beneath : throat and 

 breast paler : front and lores bright rufous : inner 

 wing covers, and under parts of the quills, cinnamon. 



Inhabits India? Mus. Nost. 



Total length \0\ inches; bill, gape l-Jg ; ditto, front -^ ; 



* The eminent services which Mr. Hodgson has rendered to science during 

 his long residence at the court of Nepal, both by describing several of the 

 new animals of that country, and by transmitting to Europe large and va- 

 luable collections of specimens, justly entitles him to the honour of having 

 one of the many new species, thus discovered, recorded by his name. 



