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In the females the difference in size is as marked as in the 

 males, but as regards plumage all that can be said is, that those 

 of Blewitti are everywhere paler colored. 



I have for years hesitated to describe this race, notwithstand- 

 ing its persistent if small differences; what has now turned the 

 scale is, that Mr. Davison, who has shot and trapped hundreds 

 of the Nilghiri bird, and who has had them for years running 

 wild in coveys in his garden, assures me that he has never 

 seen a Nilghiri specimen that could for a moment be mistaken 

 for these Raipoor birds. Indeed, in general appearance, the two 

 races differ more than might possibly be gathered from the 

 above remarks. 



Stoliczkana, Gen. Nov. 



Size small ; sexes dissimilar ; plumage full, lax, and fluffy ; hill slender, 

 feeble, compressed, almost Sylvine in its appearance, but absolutely 

 unnotched at the point ; wing short, rounded ; 5th quill the longest, 

 4th and 6th sub-equal, 7th equal to 3rd; tail rather long, muck 

 rounded; legs and feet Parine ; front toes slender, outer lateral toes 

 slightly longer than the inner, and equal to hind toe, which is very 

 stout ; central toe as long as outer toe and claw ; hind claw large 

 and much compressed. 



I have ventured to suggest a new genus for the reception 

 of a remarkable bird obtained at very high elevation in Thibet 

 by Forsyth's second Yarkand expedition, and which I can refer to 

 no genus with which I am acquainted. The form, the coloration, 

 and the loose fluffy plumage, together with the comparatively 

 elongated and much rounded or graduated tail, recall Orites, 

 but the bill is slenderer than in any known Tit ; it is, however, 

 entire at the tip, and very hard and sharp pointed. I think 

 that we must accept this as a sort of link between the Warblers 

 and the Long-tailed Tits, or, if not, as an aberrant Slender- 

 billed Tit. 



Stoliczkana Stoliczkae, 8p. Nov. 



Jdale. Forehead and broad band over eyes and ear-coverts yellowish 

 white; chin, throat, sides, flanks, lower tail-coverts, rump, and crown 

 vinaceous ruddy, all but the latter more or less shot with pale smalt 

 blue ; female, duller colored, and with all these parts, except the rump 

 and crown, unicolorous with the abdomen; wing, 21 ; tail, 2-25. 



This is the most singular new 7 form that I have ever yet had 

 to characterize, and in naming it I have sought to conserve, 



