164 



68. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Gould's Cent. Himal. Birds. Pica 

 vagabunda, Vieill, Encyclop. Method. Ornitholog., p. 888. Cora- 

 cias vagabunda, Lath., Ind., I. 171. 



Genus Kitta, 



69. Kitta venatorius, Gray, Illustrations of Indian Zoology, I. PI. 

 XXIV. 



Genus Coracias, Linn. 



70. Coracias affinis. Capite supra ceruginoso, nuchd dorsoque oli- 

 vaceis, aneo subnitentihus ; fascia alarum laid, teciricibus utrinque, 

 rectricibus ad basin, salvis intermediis glaucis, saturatissime cy- 

 aneis ; fascid remigum primorum subterminali, secundariarum ba- 

 salt, uropygio, fascid laid terminali rectricum, crissoque late tha- 

 lassinis : subtiis et lateribus colli vinaceis ,■ guld plumis laxis, in 

 medio violaceo-vittatis, ornatd. 



Genus Gracula. 



71. Gracula religiosa, Linn. Syst., I. p. 164-. 



Fam. BuceridjE. 

 Genus Buceuos, Linn. 



72. Suceros Malabaricus, Gmel. Linn., I. 359. Pied Horn-Bill, 

 Lath. 



73. JBuceros Homrdi, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. I. 

 p. 251. 



Mr. Hodgson's description of the Buceros Homrdi applies closely 

 to Mr. McClelland's specimens, and also to the bird figured in the 

 44'th plate of Gould's Century of Himalayan Birds, and to specimens 

 from Sumatra in the East India Company's Museum; while the 

 Calao a casque concave of Le Vaillant, according to Dr. Shaw's de- 

 scription and specific character, differs in various particulars. 



Fam. LoxiadjE, Vigors. 



Genus Paradoxornis, Gould, Proceed. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 17. 



74. Paradoxornis flavirostris, Gould, toe. cit., figured in Gould's 

 * Icones Avium,' Part I. Baihyrhynchus hrevirostris, McClelland, 

 Quarterly Journal of the Calcutta Med. and Phys. Society, Dec. 

 1837. With a figure. 



" Brown, beneath yellowish-brown ; head brown, with a black cir- 

 cle under each eye, the interior feathers of which have white tips ; 

 wings short ; beak much compressed, strong, shorter than its depth, 

 and thrice the depth of its breadth at the base ; mandibles equally 

 arched, and meeting in front, without a hook, in an obtuse point ; 

 nostrils small, round, and concealed by recurved feathers." — McClel- 

 land s MS. 



