582 List of Birds, &c. [Nov. 
60. Parra Arata, T. Male. Size and shape of P. enea. Eyes dark 
hazle ; bill greenish horn, upper mandible darker, nostrils pervious ; a 
flap of detached skin on the forehead, crown deep bay or dark chesnut; 
eyebrows light, face white; from the back of the head, along the nape 
of the, neck, glossy purple-black, changing to lake and coppery purple 
towards back; throat and narrow strip in front, extending to middle of 
neck, white ; rest of neck and breast pale buff; belly and vent white ; 
back cupreous olive-green; upper tail coverts and tail a burnt copper- 
ish lake; primary and secondary quills black ; tertials as back, partly 
fringed white ; greater coverts black, smaller:coverts and scapulars as 
back ; outer side of thighs; black and white radiated ; inner white, flanks 
black. Pretty common, in small marshy pools, overgrown with jungle. 
A great variety of birds in addition to these, met with in the Jungle 
Mehals, might be added to the list already enumerated; but as they 
are indigenous to the whole or various parts of Hindustan, and have 
been described by former .collectors, their insertion here would be a 
useless repetition. Ornithological research, which has made such ex- 
tensive progress into the heart of America, Africa, and the compara- 
tively unknown regions of Australia, has as yet had little insight into 
the productions of this country. especially in those parts which have 
not been more immediately located by Europeans. Many of the most 
rare and beautiful birds, inhabiting the Himalaya’ mountains and the 
adjoining forest in the Teraye, have been brought into notice by the 
talents and spirited researches of one or two gentlemen; but even sup- 
posing their exertions would make us eventually acquainted with every 
species found in those immense tracts, there. yet would be left a wide 
blank ‘in our acquisitions, so long as the extensive, unknown, and 
unvisited portions of the Jungleterry districts remained shut out from 
the inquiries of the naturalist. These regions, placed in a sensibly 
warmer latitude than the Nipal forest ;—differing in soil, in altitude; 
in vegetable productions ;—presenting ever to the eye an altered, 
a peculiar, appearance of scenery ;—rendered in parts uninhabitable 
even to the half-humanized denizens of the jungles, from the in- 
fluence of pestiferous exhalations, issuing more or less throughout 
the year from abysses, overgrown by rank vegetation, where. the 
light of day seldom enters, and the cadaverous weeds, fixed in a 
stagnant atmosphere, never wave in the refreshing breeze ;—afford 
asylums to the rarer and wilder animals of the forests, which few or no 
human footsteps have invaded. The Trogon or Curucui (No. 52), 
hitherto asserted as belonging alone to the interior of Africa, has been 
found here. The Hippopotamus, also exclusively consigned to Africa, 
