NOTES. 349 



The following are the dimensions (taken from the skin) and 

 a description of the female P. melanoxantha : — 



Length, 3'5 ; wing, 2*55 ; tail, 1'5 \ tarsus, 05; bill, straight 

 from forehead to point, 0*43. 



The entire upper surface a very dusky olive green, slightly 

 clearer on rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail hair 

 brown, darkest on quills aud tail ; most of the larger and medi- 

 an coverts, secondaries, and tertiaries very narrowly and incon- 

 spicuously margined on the outer webs with yellowish olive ; 

 two outer tail-feathers on either side with a white patch on 

 the inner webs near the tips ; lores dusky ; a broad irregular 

 stripe covering chin, middle of throat, and middle of breast 

 dull, slightly yellowish or fulvous white ; sides of throat, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of head, the same colour as the 

 back, but rather lighter ; sides of breast similar but greyer ; 

 sides and flanks similar, but the former yellower, the latter 

 greener ; middle of abdomen, vent, lower tail-coverts dull 

 pale yellow ; axillaries and wing lining, white ; the lining 

 a little mottled with greyish brown. 



A narrow nearly white line from middle of gonys to gape ; 

 lower mandible above this and upper mandible blackish ; lower 

 mandible below this horny brown ; legs and feet black. 

 (These colours are taken from the dry specimen, and may not 

 be correct). 



Mr. Blanford (S. F., Ill, 358) has already, in these pages, 

 described the adult male of Hypocolius ampelinus from the 

 Hills, dividing Sinclh from Khelat. 



I will now describe a young bird of the same species, shot at 

 Nal in Khelat, at an elevation of 4,020 feet, on the 26th April. 



The specimen has been carbolized. 



Length, 9'0 ; wing, 3"8 ; tail, 4*2 ; tarsus, 0'?5 ; mid toe 

 aud claw, 1*0 ; closed wing falls short of end of tail by 2'8; 

 bill from forehead, 0*85 ; from edge of feathers, 0*6 ; outer 

 tail feathers, 03 shorter than longest. 



First primary excessively narrow, exposed portion about 

 058 ; third primary longest; second and fourth equal, each 005 

 shorter than third ; fifth aud succeeding primaries, each about 0"1 

 shorter than the preceding one. 



The entire upper-surface, a pale greyish earth brown, a 

 shade darker on the crown, preceptibly paler and clearer on 

 upper tail-coverts ; terminal half inch of tail-feathers darker, 

 a sort of hair brown ; inner webs of quills, a pale hair 

 brown ; the primaries near their tips, paler, margined for 

 about half an inch in length on outer webs, so as to produce 

 the effect of a pale subtermiual band in the closed wing. 



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