1842.] Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. 189 



bill to the eye, pale fulvous ; but none of this passing over or beyond 

 the eye. Bill dusky-yellowish at the base of the lower mandible, and 

 legs light-brown. So far as I can remember the African T. guttatus, 

 Vigors, (P. Z. S. 1831, 92,) it seems nearly allied to that species. 



39. T. Naumanni, Temminck ; which the Asiatic Society has also re- 

 ceived from Nepal. 



40. T. (MerulaJ pceciloptera, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, 54, and figured 

 in Gould's Century, PL xiv. 



41. T. (Petrocincla) erythrogaster, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831,174, and 

 figured in Gould's Century, PL xiii. The young has a large angular 

 whitish spot upon each feather, which is further tipped with blackish ; 

 differing thus considerably from the adult female, as the latter does 

 from the male. 



42. Chditaris (Hodgson, J. A. S. 1841, 29, olim Niltava, H., Ind. 

 Rev., 1837, 651,) grandis, Nobis. Length 8^ to 8-J inches, of the 

 female 8 inches; of wing respectively A\ and 3| inches, and tail 3| 

 and 3f inches ; bill to forehead f inch, and to gape ji inch ; tarse £ 

 inch. Colour of the upper parts precisely as in Ch. sundara, Hodgson, 

 except that the purple hue of the back is considerably brighter ; or, to 

 particularize, the crown, a large spot on each side of the neck, the 

 shoulders of the wing, and the rump, are brilliant lazuline, and the 

 rest of the upper-parts glossy dark purple : forehead, lores, cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, throat and breast, deep black, without any purple gloss ; the 

 belly empurpled-black, (as much so as the back of Ch. sundara,) 

 and passing into ashy on the vent and lower tail-coverts : under surface 

 of the wings and tail black, as likewise the bill; and the legs dusky- 

 black. The female entirely resembles that of Ch. sundara, except in 

 its much larger size, and in having a rufous tinge on the under-parts 

 generally, but especially on the throat, while the white gorget of Ch. 

 sundara is totally absent. From Darjeeling, and I am informed that it 

 also inhabits Tenasserim. 



43. Ch. sundara, Hodgson. Two other species are described by that 

 naturalist, viz. Ch. McGregorii (Phoenicura McGregorii, Burton, P. Z. S. 

 1835,152, Ch. fuligiventer, Hodgson), and Ch. rubeculoides (Phcenicura 

 rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, 35, and figured in Gould's Century, 

 PL xxv. 1, seu Ch. brevipes, Hodgson). 



Dimorpha, Hodgson, /. A. S., 1841, 29, olim Siphya, H., Ind. Rev. 



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