

140 NOVELTIES. 



M. hodgsoni, Gray. There is a note upon the drawing of Hodg- 

 son's M. alboides as follows : " Motacilla hodgsoni, Blyth, 

 alboides mihi;" then follow dimensions that I need not trans- 

 cribe, and below them this note : te Valley of Nepal, January 

 15th, sexes and youth all together/' After this particulars 

 of bill, nostrils, feet, &c, note carefully that Hodgson refers to 

 a winter bird, when no luzoniensis would be found there, for 

 it migrates far south, even to the islands of the Indian seas. 

 Besides, his drawing shows no white band down the sides of 

 the neck ; this white band being in connection with the white 

 of the forehead, as in dukhunensis, alba, and lugubris, More- 

 over, the back is shown to be pure black, and the back of 

 luzoniensis is not all black in winter. Hodgson's drawing 

 is a very good one indeed of M. hodgsoni in January. Its 

 throat, to the extent shown in the drawing, is white, and does 

 not become black again till the spring is well advanced. I 

 have had the bird in every month of the year. M. personata 

 also gets a white throat in winter. Let Mr. Seebohm carefully 

 examine Hodgson's drawing No. 133, the copy in the British 

 Museum, the original being with Mr. Hume, and he will see 

 that it cannot possibly represent Motacilla luzoniensis. 



If the white of the forehead in Sonnerat's plate is not con- 

 fluent with the white of the sides of the breast, as in 

 alba, i.e., if there be not an irregular white band down the side 

 of the neck joining the white forehead and white about the 

 region of the eye, this band reaching as low as bend of wing 

 till it communicates with the white of the lower surface, then 

 the bird is not that generally known as luzoniensis, but is pro- 

 bably immature personata or some affined species ; but it 

 could not be the resident Himalayan hodgsoni. 



In this case why should not Gould's term of leucopsis 

 be adopted, which is certainly not applicable to any other bird ? 



flb-eitua. 



Garrulax subcaerulatus, Sp. Nov. 



Like Gr. cserulatus, but more olivaceous and less rufescent above, and with the 

 ear-coverts, feathers behind the eye, and posterior portions of cheeks, sil- 

 very white, more or less tipped with black, and with the three exterior tail 

 feathers on either side broadly tipped with white. 



This markedly distinct, but yet closely-allied, species replaces 

 G. cwrulatus of Nepal, Sikhim, &c, on parts of the Khasia Hills 

 near Shillong. 



