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3. NoTICE OF SOME IMPERFECTLY-KNOWN SPECIES OF Birps 
CONTAINED IN THE Museum oF THE Hon. East Inpb1A Com- 
pany. By Frepreric Moore. 
Fam. Mervuuipa, Vigors. 
Subfam. Bracuyropina, Swainson. 
Genus Ixutus, Hodgson, P. Z. 8. (1845) p. 23. 
1. Ixuuvus occrrrratis, Blyth. 
Siva occipitalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 937. (1844.) 
Taulus occipitalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 552. xvi. p. 448; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng., p. 100. 
Hab. Sikim, Nepal. (No. 955 Hodgson’s Catalogue.) 
‘Colour dull brownish olive-green above, the shafts of the dorsal 
and scapular feathers pale; below much lighter and rufescent, the 
throat whitish, the feathers of the fore-neck having dark shafts: 
crown, nape, and lower tail-coverts ferruginous-brown, which also 
tinges the flanks; coronal feathers considerably elongated, and the 
occiput beneath the crest white; bill black ; legs yellowish-brown. 
“Length about 5 inches; of wing 23; tail 2; bill to gape 5% ths; 
and tarse Zths of an inch.” 
A single specimen only of this species was collected in Nepal by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
2. Ixutus cAsTANniceps, Moore, n. sp. 
Colour above dull brownish-olive, the shafts of the dorsal and 
scapular feathers pale; crown dark-chestnut, and subcrested, the 
frontal plumes short and scaly, and having pale margins, the occiput 
paler chestnut; behind the eyes whitish; ear-coverts chestnut ; 
wings blackish, the secondaries and tertiaries with pale shafts ; 
axillee white; tail black, the three outer feathers graduated, and 
tipped obliquely externally with white, the next white at the extreme 
tip only, and the rest entirely black ; the whole underparts of a dirty 
ruddy-white colour ; bill reddish-brown ; legs yellowish. 
Length 53 inches; of wing 2,3,; tail 24; its outermost feather 
ths less ; bill to front =3ths; to gape 4; and tarse ¢ of an inch. 
Hab. Afghanistan. 
This species is at once distinguished by the white tips to the tail 
feathers. 
Genus Stacuyris, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. 1844, p. 378. 
3. Sracuyris ruFIcEPs, Blyth. 
Stachyris ruficeps, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 452 (1847) ; 
Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 150. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 332. 
The rufous-headed Stachyris. 
Hab. Sikim ; Nepal. (No. 923, Hodgson’s Catalogue.) 
‘* Allied in form and size to St. pyrrhops, but having the crown 
light ferruginous, and the chin and middle of the throat white, with 
