106 Asiatic Society. (No. 121. 



(Lin. Trans, xiii, 286), and the C. metallicus, Vigors (Ibid, xv, 302), is no other 

 than the young, as satisfactorily shewn by specimens in transitional state of plumage. 



* Podargus ? 



* Lanius nigriceps ; Collurio nigriceps, Franklin ( P. Z. S., 1831, 117,). 

 Picus tristis : female. 



* Yunx torquilla ; taken near Calcutta. 



* Pteruthius erythropterus, Swainson ; Lanius erythropterus, Vigors and Gould : a 

 young male, agreeing with Gould's plate of the female, except in having a conspicuous 

 whitish eye-streak, like that of the adult male, while the crown and back are uni- 

 formly greyish brown, the feathers of flimsy texture, and slightly tinged with green- 

 ish on the scapularies £ under-parts white, having some growing new feathers tinged 

 with fulvous on the sides of the breast. An adult female before me differs from Gould's 

 figure of this sex in having the upper-parts darker and more inclining to cinereous- 

 brown, quite a different hue from that on the plate, and the crown much darker and 

 dusky grey ; bill more hooked than in the young bird. 



Muscipeta paradisea ; two males, which sex is new to the Museum. 



Phoenicura atrata, J. and S. {III. Orn, pi. lxxxvi) : male and female ; the former new 

 to our collection, and differing from the figure referred to, and the Latin definition of 

 the species, in wanting the bright rufous margining of the wing feathers, which are 

 edged with'greyish, having but a slight rufous tinge on the border of the tertiaries 

 only. Of the various Indian true Redstarts, this is the only species I know of which 

 occurs in the southern parts of the Peninsula,* and the present are the only specimens 

 I have seen of it from the northern hills. It is common in the vicinity of Calcutta. 



* Mr. Hodgson, in the " India Review," (for 1837, p. 65,) has described a 

 small group of birds allied to the Redstarts, but quite properly distinguished from 

 them, which he there styles Niltava, having since substituted the appellation Chaitaris 

 (Jour. As. Soc. 1841 , 29) ; three species are distinguished by him, of which two 

 appear to have been previously named; viz. Ch. brevipes, H., which is the Phoenicura 

 rubeculoides, Vigors, (P.Z. S. 1831,35), as identified by Mr. Hodgson; Ch. ful- 

 giventer, H. which, from comparison of the descriptions, would seem not to differ from 

 Phoenicura McGregorii, Burton (P. Z. S. 1835, 152) ; and Ch. sundara, Hodgson, 

 of which beautiful species a fine specimen occurs in the present collection, with two of 

 Ch. rubeculoides, all males. In another collection of birds now confided to my charge 

 from Darjeeling are two males and a female of Ch. sundara, and two males and two 

 females of an additional true species, considerably larger than the others, which I 

 intend to describe as Ch. grandis. The group is an extremely natural one. 



Turdus (Oreocincla, Gould,) Whitei, Eyton. 



* Crateropus ocellatus ; Cinclosoma ocellatum, Vigors. 



* Oriolus Traillii, Hodgson ; Pastor Traillii, Vigors and Gould : a female. 



* Chloropsis, J. and S., seu Phyllornis of Temminck: two species. One is the Chi. 

 Sonnerati, J. and S., or Ph. Mullerii, Tern. ; two males, and new to the collection : the 

 other the Chi. Hardwickii, J. and S. (described in the Addenda to the 2nd volume 

 of the " Illustrations of Ornithology," from a coloured figure in the collection of the 

 late Major General Hardwicke), seu Chi. cyanopterus, Hodgson, and Chi. chryso- 



* Mr. Jerdon has lately described two others in his Supplement, 



