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



rare. Referring to Mr. Yarrell's work on British birds, I perceive it 

 remarked that a species of this genus has been received from the Hima- 

 laya, which is probably that here described. 



36. Pitta nuchalis ? Nobis, n. s. ? Length 9\ inches, of wing 4| 

 inches, tail 2f inches, bill to forehead 1J inch, and to gape If inch, its 

 vertical depth at base above f inch, and tarse 2 inches. Above shining 

 dingy green, passing into fulvescent-brown on the scapularies and 

 wings ; the back of the neck verditer-blue ; and the occiput above it 

 greenish : crown, sides of the head, and under-parts, dull rufous-brown, 

 paler on the forehead and throat ; bill robust, and carneous-tinged with 

 dusky ; the legs apparently pale carneous. Specimen marked male. 



37. Turdus (Oreocincla, Gould,) Whitei, Eyton. 



38. T. mollissimus, Nobis. Equally allied to T. Whitei and the European 

 T. musicus, this handsome species can hardly be placed in a subdivision 

 typified by either of these apart from the other, though I think it ap- 

 proaches nearest to T. musicus. It is, however, considerably larger, 

 a female measuring 9^ inches long, the wing from bend 5f inches, 

 and tail 4 inches. Bill shaped as in the Mavis Thrush (T. musicus), 

 and - inch to forehead, to gape 1 J inch ; tarse If inch : 3rd and 4th 

 primaries equal and longest, the 5 th a little shorter, the 2nd above 

 f inch shorter than the 3rd, and the first diminutive. Plumage 

 remarkably dense and soft in texture, having a smooth surface, and of a 

 uniform rich brown colour above, with a slight cast of orange, being 

 very nearly that of the back of an English Robin: wing- coverts and 

 tertiaries slightly margined with paler, except the greater coverts of the 

 primaries, which are tipped with blackish ; the inner webs of the prima- 

 ries are dusky, and their outer webs are emarginated as in T. musicus ; 

 the under-surface of the wing is marked with black and white, as in the 

 Oreocinclce : tail also displaying an affinity to the latter group, its four 

 middle feathers being brown like the back, the outermost pair albescent- 

 brown with a whitish tip, the two next having successively less white 

 at the tip, and the remainder of the tail being blackish : under-parts 

 clear fulvous, deepest on the breast, and becoming whitish along the 

 centre of the belly; very richly spotted with deep black, and much 

 more densely than in T. Whitei, the spots forming broad transverse 

 crescents below the breast, and being of a triangular form upon the 

 latter, the throat, and front of the neck : orbits, and a streak from the 



