190 Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. [No, 122. 



1839, 651. The following two species are evidently referrible to this 

 division, which is allied to the preceding one, and borders closely upon 

 Cryptolopha of Swainson. 



44. D. superciliaris, Nobis. Length 4£ inch, of wing from bend 2^ inch, 

 tail If inch ; bill to forehead - inch, and to gape ~ inch ; tarse ~ inch. 

 Colour of the upper-parts, chin, and sides of the neck, uniform dusky - 

 cyaneous, the lateral feathers of the forehead white-tipped, passing as a 

 streak over but not beyond the eye ; bases of the primaries and seconda- 

 ries rufous-brown exteriorly, contrasting with the hue of their coverts ; 

 throat and breast light ferruginous, paling on the belly, and passing 

 into white on the vent and lower tail-coverts. Bill black, and legs very 

 slender and apparently dusky-plumbeous. Fifth primary rather the 

 longest. Specimen marked male. 



45 D. albogularis, Nobis. Length 4 J inches ; of wing 2fg inches, and 

 tail If inch; bill to forehead ~ inch, and to gape above ~ inch; tarse 



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{q inch. Colour of the upper-parts, sides of head and neck, and across 

 the breast, uniform dark cyaneous, much brighter than in the preced- 

 ing species ; the throat, fore-neck, and under-parts below the breast, pure 

 white: bill black, and legs dusky black. Third and fourth primaries 

 sub-equal and longest.* 



46. Phamicura frontalis, Vigors, P. Z. 8., 1831, 172, and figured in 

 Gould's Century, PI. xxvi. 1 ; differing, however, somewhat in colour- 

 ing from that figure, inasmuch as the head and neck, back and wings, 

 are not black, but dusky-cyaneous, having terminal brown winter 

 edgings, the forehead and above the eye being much brighter. The 

 specimens of Ph. atrata, Jardine and Selby (III. Orn. PI. lxxxvi), 

 also, which I have seen, differ from that figure 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. The Museum of the Asiatic Society contains also the Ph. 

 fuliginosa, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, 31, being evidently the same as 

 has been since described by Mr. Gould as Ph. plumbea, Ibid, 1835, 

 185; likewise Ph. leucocephala, Vigors and Gould; and another 

 Indian (and presumed Chinese) species, which I do not know, is the 



* The Asiatic Society has since received this species from Chyebassa, in Central 

 India. 



