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3i inches, and tail externally 2f inches ; bill to forehead above 7 mc h 



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and tarse J inch ; 2nd and 3rd primaries equal and longest, the 4th and 

 1st successively a trifle shorter. Summer aspect of plumage uniform 

 dusky above, inclining to greyish on the shoulders and rump, and every- 

 where margined with dark claret-red ; throat, and occipital stripe com- 

 mencing at each eye, with the lower parts below the breast, fine dark 

 roseate ; crown and breast margined with deeper claret-red ; tail a little 

 forked, and dusky ; wings dusky-brown, their coverts margined with 

 dull-red, the tertiaries towards the end of their outer webs with ruddy- 

 brown, and the primaries with pale brown : bill shaped as in a British 

 Redpole, or nearly as in Carduelis, and dusky above, paler beneath ; feet 

 dark brown. 



56. L.fusca, Nobis. Allied to L. cannabina, but the beak more length- 

 ened and bulging laterally about the middle, wherein it differs from L. 

 saturata and the other Redpoles. Length of a female 5f inches, of 

 wing Z\ inches, and tail externally 2J inches, being a little furcate ; bill to 

 forehead ^ inch, and tarse f inch : 3 first primaries sub-equal, the 2nd 

 somewhat the longest, and the 4th shorter than the first. Colour uniform 

 dull ashy olive-brown, a little fainter below, and paled on the middle of 

 the belly and tips of the under tail- coverts : the back having a very 

 slight cast of orange, more developed on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, where mingled with dull red ; wings and tail dusky, more or less 

 edged with orange brown : bill dusky above and at the tip, the lower 

 mandible paler : feet pale brown. 



I shall now conclude by describing three other species of birds which 

 I suspect are new. 



Pica megaloptera, Nobis. This is the fourth species of true black 

 and white Magpie with which I am acquainted, and it is readily dis- 

 tinguished from the others by its larger size, and more particularly that 

 of the wings, while the tail is proportionally less elongated, and by the 

 absence of any grey band across the rump. Length 18 to 20 inches, 

 of wing from bend 9^ to 9f inches, and middle tail feathers 10 to lOf 

 inches ; bill to commencement of frontal plumes 1^ to If inch, and 

 tarse 2 to 2f inches. Plumage and markings exactly similar to those 

 of the Common Magpie, except that the glosses are somewhat differ- 

 ent (as I observed upon formerly comparing two specimens in the 

 Asiatic Society's Museum with examples of the true British Magpie 



