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2. DrEscRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES 
or Brros rrom NorTHERN INDIA, CONTAINED IN THE 
Museum or THE Hon. East Inp1A Company. By Frer- 
pERIC Moors, Assist. Hon. Comp. Museum. 
(Aves, Pl. LXITI.) 
Fam. Mervutip4, Vigors. 
Subfam. MyiorHerina, Swains. 
Genus Pnokipyea, Hodgs. 
Syn. Microura, Gould (nec Ehrenb.). 
1. PNOEPYGA LONGICAUDATA, nobis. 
Colour of the upper parts deep olive-brown, the feathers slightly 
margined with black, and having blackish shafts; wings and tail in- 
clined to ferruginous brown ; upper tail-coverts long ; throat whitish ; 
breast and sides of abdomen pale dusky ferruginous, the feathers 
having pale centres and blackish margins; centre of lower part of 
breast and abdomen white; flanks the same as the back; vent and 
under tail-coverts dark ferruginous ; bill dark horn colour, legs paler. 
Length, 43 inches; of wing, 2; the tail is rounded, the central 
feathers being 21 inches long, and the outer 13 inch ; bill to front, 
through the feathers, inch; to gape, 56; tarse, ;8;. 
Hab. N. India. 
Genus Bracuyrteryx, Horsfield, p. s. d. 
2. BRACHYPTERYX NIPALENSIS, Hodgson. 
Male: colour above a greyish cyaneous, or light greyish blue, as 
are also the cheeks, sides of breast and flanks, and paling to greyish 
white on the centre of the breast ; throat, middle of belly, vent and 
under tail-coverts, streak over but not extending beyond the eye, 
white. Female: ferruginous brown above, paling on the sides ; 
throat, breast, belly, under tail-coverts and streak over the eye, 
whitish, the feathers on the breast and sides fringed with brown ; 
bill dark horn colour, legs paler. 
Length, 4} inches ; of wing, 2}; tail, 13; bill to gape, £; tarse, 1. 
Hab. Nepal (No. 943, Hodgs. Catal.). 
This species is allied to Br. cruralis, Blyth, but may readily be 
distinguished by its smaller size, shorter tail, paler colour of the upper 
parts, and by its white throat and belly. 
Genus Catieng, Blyth, Journ. A.S. Beng. p.136 (1847). 
Syn. Cinclidium, Blyth (nec Gould). 
Gen. Char. “ Bill shorter than the head, straight, slender, higher 
than broad, the ridge of the upper mandible tolerably acute, and its 
tip very slightly emarginated ; inferior gonys ascending for the ter- 
minal half, imparting to the bill the appearance of a tendency to bend 
