184 Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. [No. 122. 



wing-feathers are black, the secondaries narrowly edged, and the tertia- 

 ries broadly, with green ; the under-surface of the wings is fulvescent- 

 white where pure white in Pt. erythropterus : uropygials green with 

 black shafts ; the next pair of tail-feathers having a green outer-margin 

 increasing in breadth towards the base, and the rest of the tail wholly 

 black, excepting the rufous tips before noticed : the three outermost 

 rectrices successively graduate in length, while the others are sub- 

 equal. Bill black, and legs apparently light brown. 



26. Leiothrix calipyga: Calipyga (olim Bahila) calipyga, Hodgson, 

 Ind. Rev. 1838, 88. 



27. L. cyanoptera : Hemiparus (olim Siva) cyanoptera, Hodgson, Ind. 

 Rev., 1838, 88 ; Leiothrix lepida, McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. S. 

 1839, 162. 



28. L. strigula : H. strigula, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, 89. 



The Asiatic Society's Museum contains examples of three species of 

 this elegant group, viz. cyanoptera, ignotincta (Proparus — olim Minla- 

 ignotinctus, Hodgson, Ind. Rev., 1838,32, seu Leiothrix ornata, McClel- 

 land and Horsfield, P. Z. S., 1839, 162), and Nipalensis (Hemiparus — 

 olim Siva-Nipalensis, Hodgson, Ind. Rev, 1838, 89). The L. signata, 

 McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. S., 1839, 162, is clearly distinct from 

 any of those of Mr. Hodgson, who further describes L. (Proparus, 

 olim MinlaJ castaniceps, (Philocalyx, olim MesiaJ argentauris, and 

 (Hemiparus, olim Siva,) vinipectus. I do not myself perceive the neces- 

 sity of subgenerically dividing them, and much suspect that several will 

 prove to have prior appellations. The Polyodon (ohm Yuhina), Hodgson, 

 As. Res. XIX, 165, to judge from the Society's specimens of P. flavi- 

 collis (referred with a note of doubt to this genus by Mr. Hodgson), 

 would seem to be closely allied. 



29. Parus flavocristatus, de Lafresnage; Mesange a huppe jaune, 

 Guerin, Mag. ZooL, PI. LXXX, Janvier, 1837, apud Horsfield : P. sul- 

 taneus, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. April, 1837, p. 81. 



30. Tricophorus striatus, Nobis. Female : the sexes, however, reported 

 to be similar. Length 8f inches, of wing 4 \ inches, and tail 4 inches ; bill 

 to forehead f inch, and tarse under £ inch. General colour olive-green, 

 brightest on the wings and rump, the crown and back darker, with a tinge 

 of cinereous on the latter, and the feathers of these parts having a narrow 

 white mesial streak occupying their shafts : occipital plumes elongated, 



