:?04 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF NEPAL. 



winalei above referred to^ nor is it shown in Gould's equally 

 beautiful pictui'e, nor is it referred to in any single description 

 to which I have access; but this probably is a mere oversig-ht. 



Again, in Mr. Elliotts picture, the whole of the feathers of the 

 lower surface are represented as having very broad maroon 

 borders extending beyond the grey, or, as he represents them, 

 almost lohite spots; but Mr. Gould figures these spots correctly 

 pearly grey, and represents them with extremely narrow ter- 

 minal fringes, so that on the whole I have no doubt that our 

 present bird is identical with the Chinese one. 

 , I have seen no specimen of the female, but figures show 

 that she is very similar in marking to those of satyra, but 

 altogether paler colored and greyer. 



This species must now be included, I suppose, in our list of 

 the Birds of the Indian Empire. 



Contribution to t|e f ruitjologg of ^epl 



By J. Scully. 



This following notes on some Birds of Nepal were made 

 during the course of a I'esidence of two years in that country, 

 I was induced to collect the birds hereafter recorded, and to note 

 the localities from whence they were obtained, because I found 

 that, although Mr. Hodgson had collected probably every spe- 

 cies known to occur in the State, there was hardly any inform- 

 ation on record about the particular stations of those species in 

 a country characterised by the utmost diversity of physical 

 confio-uration, elevation above sea level, and climate. 



In the British Museum Catalogues of Mr. Hodgson's collec- 

 tions, the distribution of the birds obtained by that naturalist is 

 not attempted : the usual remark which there follows the syno- 

 nymy of each species is " Inhab-Nepal ;" though, no doubt, 

 occasionally " Northern Snowy Region'^ or " Lower Hills'' are 

 specified. 



In his essay on the Physical Geography of the Himalayas, Mr. 

 Hodgson gave a sketch of the principal genera of birds cbarac- 

 teristie of his Northern, Central, and Lower Regions of Nepal ; 

 and iu the notices of birds described by him as new, he indicated 

 the localities from which they had been procured, but these refer 

 to ver 7 few species, and moreover occur in publications now 

 very difficult of access. After all I found it impossible to 

 arrive at any certain conclusion about the species inhabiting the 

 Nepal Valley, for instance, without actually making a collection 

 there. 



