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4. Notice of some new species of Birds. By Frederic 

 Moore, Assist. Mus. East India Company. 



Genus Otocoris, Bonaparte. 



Otocoris 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 7f inches ; of wing 5 inches ; tail 3f ths ; bill to frontal 

 plumes ^ths ; to gape f ths ; tarsus ^f ths ; middle toe and claw 

 ^ths ; hind ditto -^ths of an inch. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Agra. In Mr. Gould's Collection. 



Genus Emberiza, Linn. 



Emberiza stracheyi, Moore. 



Affined 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 3f ths ; tail 3 ; tarsus f ths of an inch. 



Hab. Kumaou. In Mus. East India Company. 



Emberiza castaneiceps, Gould, MSS. 



Also affined to E. 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 5J inches ; wing 2|ths ; tail 2f ths ; tarsus f 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. 



Phcenicospiza, 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). 



