OTOCOMPSA. 657 



Length 10"; wing 5"; tail 4"-50; tarsus 0"-70 ; bill (gape) 1"-16. 



Black ; head, neck, and interscapular region metallic black ; middle of back 

 and rump dusky black, tinged with cinereous ; the feathers margined with cinere- 

 ous ; upper tail-coverts brownish-black, feebly tinged with cinereous ; below dark 

 cinereous spotted with brownish-black; sides of the abdomen slaty ciaereous; 

 under tail-coverts ashy, margined with white ; wing-coverts brownish-black ; wings 

 and tail blackish-brown, the primaries narrowly margined with cinereous; bill, 

 legs and feet coral red ; claws dusky ; irides bright reddish-bro^vn. 



This bird is intermediate between S. psaroides and R. ganeesa, but is most 

 closely allied to the latter. It is also nearly allied to S. nigerrima, Gould, with 

 which I have compared it. It is a larger bird than any of the foregoing species. 

 It is also a much greyer bml generally than the R. perniger, Swinhoe, and consider- 

 ably larger. 



Blyth's R. concolor is so imperfect in every way that I do not attempt to 

 supplement his meagre description. 



I procured only one specimen of this species on the hill-side at Ponsee on old 

 forest clearings. 



Genus Hemixus, Hodgson. 

 162. Hemixus flavala, Hodgson. 



Eemixos flavala, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 83, 1844j id., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiv, 

 p. 572, 1845; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 207, 1849; Bonap. Consp., vol. i, 

 p. 261, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 250, 1854; Jerdon, 

 B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 80, 1863; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 7; Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 165; Godwin- 

 Austen, Joum. As. -Soc, Bengal, 1870, p. 106; Dates, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 337; Godwin- 

 Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 78. 



Kemijius fiavala, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, p. 90, 1846. 



Pycnonotus flavala, Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 237, pi. lix, 1847; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 270, 1869. 



a. h. $ Ponsee, 3rd April 1868. 



This bird was living in communities on high trees in the outskirts of the village 

 along with Otocompsa emeria and Fyciionotus nigt^ipileus. 



Genus Otocompsa, Cabanis. 

 163. Otocompsa emeria, Linnaeus. 



Le petit merle hupe.de la Chine, Briss. Orn., t. ii, p. 255, pi. xxi, fig. 2, 1760. 



Lanius jocosm, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 138, 1766; (ex Briss.) 



Ixusjocosus, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1832, p. 88; Pears., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. x, p. 640, 



1846; Bonap. Consp. Av., t. i, p. 265, 1850; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 370. 

 Pycnonotusjocosv,s,'B[jih,Zovim. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiv, p. 566, 1845; id., vol. xv, p. 286, 1846 ; 



Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 237, 1847; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 208, (pars), 



1849 ; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 238, 1854; Gray, Handl. B., 



vol. i, p. 271, 1869. 



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