OP NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 



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Total length 18 inches ; bill, ^ape \i ; front 9 ; tarsus 1^ ; 

 hind toe and claw ^ ; middle ditto Ifg. Hitherto confounded 

 with the true E. orientalis, which is much smaller, and whose 

 wings measure only 7^ inches. 



190. Chrysomus zanthopygius. 



Glossy black: the head, 

 rump, shoulder covers, and 

 the whole of the under plu- 

 »nage_, golden yellow. 



Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. 



{fig.n.h) 



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Total length nearly 8 inches ; 

 bill, gape ^ ; front the same ; 

 wings 4 ; tail, beyond, 1^ ; base 3 ; 

 tarsus 1 ; hind toe and claw fg ; 

 iniddle ditto 1. Claws long, slen- 

 der, and very slightly curved. 

 The yellow on the head does not 

 reach so far as the nape : the 

 inner wing covers, and the margin of the carpus, are also 

 yellow. The total confusion into which Dr. Wagler has 

 thrown the whole of the American Sturnida, by uniting 

 them into one genus, renders it now utterly impossible to 

 determine any but the most common species : his treatment 

 of this group, and of the Psittaddce, is truly anomalous ; and 

 both seem to be regulated more by caprice than by any one 

 principle of classification, natural or artificial. Our present 

 species is more typical than C. icterocephalus (a), which has the 

 hind claw shorter and more curved. 



191. Chloropsis curvirostris. 



Green : maxillary stripe violet ; shoulder covers 

 vivid blue: middle of the body, and under tail covers^ 

 orange. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length 7 inches; bill, gape 1 ; front -j^; wings 3^; 

 tail, beyond, l-p^; base 2^ ; tarsus ig ; hind toe and claw i. 

 The bill is much lengthened, and both mandibles are curved. 



192. DuLus nuchalis. 

 Above, olive brown : nape with a transverse bar of 

 white : beneath, cream colour, with distinct stripes of 

 dark brown. 



