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of the quills ; the rest of the quills hair-brown ; the tail pale 

 brown, obsoletely barred and slightly tinged at the margin 

 with rufous ; a dull white stripe from the nostrils over the eyes 

 and ear-coverts ; a dusky stripe under this latter through the 

 lores, eyes, and ear-coverts ; lower surface pale dingy fulvous, 

 more albescent on the throat and wing-lining. 



This specimen I picked out of a collection made in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Darjeeling by Mr. Gammie, of the Government 

 Chinchona Plantation.— Ibis, 1872, p. 109. 



Then I give a number of gleanings from Jerdon's additional 

 notes on the birds of India which appeared in the Ibis. 



Picus Westermani, Blyth. (Ibis, 1870, p. 163). 



Mr. Blyth detected a Woodpecker in the Amsterdam 

 Museum, from the Himalayas, "like Macei, but larger, with 

 the median six rectrices black as in atratus ; wing 4*625.'" 

 This bore the name of P. Wagleri, Hartl., which Malherbe 

 assigns as a synonym of Macei, and gives the same name to a 

 Brazilian species ; so Blyth has named this bird as above. 

 — Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 7. 



Muscicapula ciliaris, Hodgson, apud Blyth. 



It very closely resembles the last, (M. astigma,) having no 

 white on the tail ; the white on the throat appears to be more 

 contracted ; and there is a distinct white supercilium from the 

 front of the eye to the nape. No particular locality is given 

 on the plate. — Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 127. 



Callene Hodgsoni, Moore. 



Acrocephalus, apud Moore. 



Hodgson's Short-wing. 



Description. — Brown above, pale below, albescent on the 

 throat and mid belly ; base of tail rufous-tawny. 



Dimensions. — Wing, 2| ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 1£. 

 Bab : —Nepal. 



This is probably the female of some species. Blyth has 

 referred it to Callene. — Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 132. 



Pomatorhinus hypoleucus {Blyth), Journ. As. Soc., 

 Beng., 1844, p. 371. 



Pomatorhinus albicollis, Horsf. M. S ; Gray, Gen. of Birds, 

 pi. 57. The White-bellied Scimitar Babbler. 



Entire upper surface, wings, and tail ferruginous brown ; 

 chin, throat, middle of the breast, and belly creamy white ; 

 feathers on the sides of the breast creamy white, with ashy 



