1837.] On three new Genera or sub-Genera of Thrushes. 10 f 



ous that the Celtic worship of the celestial bodies may he traced in 

 a general way to the ancient Mythos of Central Asia, whence the peo- 

 ple themselves may have originally emanated, but from which they 

 had been disconnected for ages anterior to the time of Julius Cesar,. 

 and a fortiori long b.fore our Indo-Scythic coins were struck. 



The legend of Col. Stacy's last coin, aoh, has given rise to a variety 

 of conjectures : — the possessor supposes it a date, — but the only way 

 in which it could be thus read, as Capt. Cunningham points out, is 

 by supposing a to stand for XvnaRavros, as on the Egyptian coins, 

 A OH anno 78. For ourselves we still maintain that, as the obverse 

 legend is evidently a mere jumble of the title BACIAEnc BACIAEnN, 

 there can be no hesitation in pronouncing aoh a similar jumble of 

 HAIOC, rather than of any other of the known reverses, which, it will be 

 remembered, do not appear until the Greek titles of the king give way 

 to the indigenous appellation RAO. On receiving the Journal des 

 Savans, we searched through M. Raoul De Rochette's papers on the 

 Honighberger and Ventura collections with avidity, to see how he would 

 read these curious legends, and were at first mortified l>y finding that he 

 dismissed them as " letters apparently resembling Greek" — then, as 

 fit topics for " Lndianistes — being out of the department of his own 

 studies." In the number, for Mai 1836, however, we are happy to find 

 that our own readings of Okro, nanaia, mao, &c. are confirmed by the 

 learned German Professor of Gottingen, M. K. Ott. Muller ; to whom 

 M. R. De Rochette awards the merit of reading a gold coin of 

 Kanerkes in the French cabinet which he had left untouched ; — '* le 

 revers, aPAOKpo semble no pouvoir s'expliquer, conime l'a propose 

 aussi tres ingenieusement M. K. Ott. Mulleii, que par le mot Sanscrit 

 OKPO combine avec une seconde racine Sansktite." — Ed. 



IV. — On three new Genera or sub-Genera of long-legged Thrushes, ivith 

 descriptions of their species. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Merulid^e, Crateropodin^e ; Aipuneuiia ? Tesia, nobis ; Tee-see of 

 the Nipalese. 



Bill shorter than the head, straight, and with the nares* perfectly 

 Cincline. Wings very feeble, and quite round. Tail nearly obsolete. 



Ricius and capistrum smooth. Tarsi very high, slender, and quite 

 smooth. Toes and nails meruline, slender, and compressed. 



1st Species. Cyaniventer ; blue-bellied, nobis. Above, medial 

 grass green : below, slaty blue: bill, horn color : legs, fleshy grey: 

 wis, brown : of inches long by b~ wide : weight \ of an oz. : sexes alike. 



* In Aifjunemia the covering of trie nares is corneous : in Tesia, it is pure 

 membrane. In the former, aguio, the tarsal scales are appaieut ; whilst iu 

 Tenia there is no trace oi them. 



