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4. Noricr OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF Birps. By FREDERIC 
Moors, Assist. Mus. East INp1A Company. 
Genus Orocoris, Bonaparte. 
Orocoris LoNGIROSTRIS, Gould, MSS. 
Allied in colour to O. penicillata, and in the markings of the head 
and breast, but differs in its larger size, considerably more lengthened 
bill, wings and tail, and thicker toes ; and in the feathers of the back 
being broadly centred with brown. 
Length 73 inches; of wing 5 inches; tail 33ths ; bill to frontal 
plumes ;5ths; to gape 3ths; tarsus 1$ths; middle toe and claw 
38;ths ; hind ditto ;ths of an inch. 
Hab. Neighbourhood of Agra. In Mr. Gould’s Collection. 
Genus Emsperiza, Linn. 
EMBERIZA STRACHEYI, Moore. 
Atfined to E. Cia, but differs in having the markings about the 
head more broadly developed, and of a deeper black colour, forming 
three well-defined black bars, as seen laterally ; the throat and sides 
of neck being whiter, and ashy on the front of the neck only, the 
breast and the rest of the under-parts being uniform bright rufous- 
brown, which colour is also prominent on the back, and especially 
on the scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts. 
Length 6 inches; of wing 32ths; tail 3; tarsus $ths of an inch. 
Hab. Kumaon. In Mus. East India Company. 
EMBERIZA CASTANEICEPS, Gould, MSS. 
Also affined to H. Cia. Crown and ear-coverts deep chestnut- 
brown ; superciliary streak, base of upper mandible, throat, front 
and sides of neck ashy white; behind the ears and nape ashy; a 
spot before the eye and streak from base of lower mandible down the 
sides of the throat black ; back, scapulars, and rump rufous-brown, 
the two former having blackish centres to the feathers ; wings dusky 
black, the feathers margined with rufous-brown; tail dusky black, 
the two centre feathers broadly margined with rufous-brown, the two 
outer tipped obliquely with white for nearly the whole length ; breast 
and flanks rufous-brown, and paling towards the centre of the belly ; 
upper mandible dark-horn, lower paler. 
Length 5} inches; wing 2jths; tail 23ths; tarsus ¢ of an inch. 
Hab. Kintang in China. In Mus. East India Comp., J. Gould, 
Esq. 
Genus Propasser, Hodgson, Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) ; 
P. Z. S. 1845, p. 36. 
Puenicospiza, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiii. p. 213 (1854). 
PROPASSER THURA. 
Carpodacus Thura, Bonaparte et Schlegel, Monogr. des Loxiens, 
t. 23. Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 531 (male). 
