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Glaucomyias sordida, Walden. 



General color ashy grey, Avashed AvitTi a faint tinge of blue 

 or greenish blue ; forehead, supercilium, chin, and lesser 

 shoukler-coA-erts deep pure blue ; under shoulder-coverts, 

 axillaries, vent and under tail-coA T erts white ; tail broAvu, with 

 a dingy gloss of dark green ; bill, legs, and claAvs black ; 

 lores black ; Aving, nearly 3 inches ; tail, 2~ ; tarsus, f ; fourth 

 and fifth quills equal ; third nearly as long ; second still shorter 

 than third ; first half the length of second ; bill lengthened and 

 much hooked. 



Four examples of this very distinct species Avere sent to me 

 from Ceylon. I am not certain that it should not be classed 

 as a Cyornis, near to C. unicolor, BI3 th. At first sight it 

 resembles an immature G. melanops, Vigors. — Ann. and Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, Vol. V., p. 218, 1870. 



Megalaima inornata, Walden. 



The Large Green Barbet of South-Western India has hitherto 

 been confounded with that of Central India, M. eaniceps, 

 (Franklin). That of South- Western India, to which I give 

 the above title, is to be distinguished from all the other knoAvn 

 Green Barbets by having the chin, throat, breast, and upper 

 portion of the abdominal region uniform pale broAAm. Each 

 feather has the shaft, very faintly, paler. The plumage above 

 closely resembles that of M. eaniceps; but the terminal spots 

 on the Aviug-coverts and tertiaries are almost altogether want- 

 ing. The dimensions of both species are nearly alike, but the 

 bill of M. cancieps (ex-Maunboom) is shorter and not so stout. 

 The absence of the broad pale medium streaks on the pectoral 

 plumage readily distinguishes this species. 



Described from tAA'o Malabar examples, two from Coorg, and 

 three from Candeish. — Ann. 8f Mag. of Nat. Hist., Ser, 4, Vol. 

 V., p. 219, 1870. 



Geocichla Layardi, Walden. 



The Geocichla of Ceylon is most nearly allied to G. citrina, 

 (Lath.), of Northern and Central India, and not, as might have 

 been expected, to G. cyanota, (J. & S.) of Malabar. From 

 Latham's bird it is to be readily distinguished by the much 

 deeper orange of the head and nape, these parts being of the 

 game dark shade of orange-brown characteristic of G. rubecula, 

 Gould, ex-Java. On the under surface the orange tints are 

 brighter and richer than in citrina, yet not so nearly dark as in 

 G^ rubecula ; the blue-grey portion of the plumage is likewise 

 darker than in G. citrina, but not so dark as in G. rubecula. 

 In the distribution of the Avhite plumage the three species 

 resemble each other ; they appear, along with G. rubeginosa, 



