1836.] Additions to the Ornithology of Nepal. 779 



tarsus \ § : anteal outer toe ^5 : its nail i S a : sexes alike : Habitat, 

 forests of lower region . 



Remarks. On a recent occasion I quoted Vivia Nipalensis, (nobis) 

 as the smallest of the family*. The above singular bird is still 

 smaller, and both by its extraordinary form, and by its diminutive size, 

 confirms the assertion then hazarded, that the vast forests of Nipal 

 yield to none in the world in the number and variety of the Wood- 

 pecker tribe. 



Certhiad^e. Genus Sitta auctorum. Species new ; Corallina, 

 coral-billed Sitta, nobis. 



Form, as in Castaneoventrisf, but considerably smaller in size. 

 Above, soft sub-cerulean blue, tinged with lilac on the cap : below, 

 sordid greyish : chin white : forehead black : great quills and lateral 

 rectrices, blackish ; the latter, white-tipped : legs plumbeous grey : bill 

 intense coral red ; iris straw yellow : 4|- inches long by 8-| wide, and 

 § oz. in weight : sexes alike. Habitat, central and northern regions. 



Species 2nd, Nipalensis, nobis. 



Above, saturate blue, darker than in Castaneoventris and with a 

 purplish tinge ; below, rufescent deepening as you descend the body, 

 and showing full rusty on the lower flanks, vent, and inferior tail 

 coverts : from the nostrils through the eyes to the shoulders, a black 

 band : quills and lateral tail feathers, blackish : a white spot at the 

 base of the two central rectrices ; and the lateral ones blanched to- 

 wards their tips : legs fleshy grey : bill dusky blue, changing to 

 fleshy grey towards the base : iris dark brown : sexes alike : size of 

 the precedent, and habitat the same. 



5 . — New species of Hirundinidae. 



Cvpselus. Chcetura. 



Species 1st. Nudipes, nobis. 



Form and size. Bill typically cypseline with large vertical nares, 

 wings exceedingly firm and long ; 1st quill longest, more than two 

 inches beyond the tail : tail shortish, quadrate, longer than the 

 coverts, composed of ten very firm square-pointed feathers, the rigid 

 straight shafts of which are produced into naked acute spines. Tarsi 

 longer than any toe, nude, smooth. Toes longer and more unequal 



* A mistake, I find : for Picus Minutus i's but 3§ inches long, or, precisely 

 the size of our present subject. 



f Also a Nipalese species : and these hills have therefore afforded three 

 species to a genus previously limited to oue — or, at moit, two, if Pectoralis 

 prov« to be distinct. 

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