1842.] Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. 195 



T. meruloides, Nobis. Length 7^ inches, of wing 3| inches, and tail 

 the same ; bill to forehead £ inch, and to gape ~ inch ; tarse 1 \ inch. 

 General colour dull brown, paler underneath, /and having a slight 

 rusty tinge on the rump, flanks, and belly ; throat and fore-neck whitish, 

 indistinctly spotted with brown ; tail slightly washed with yellow, as 

 more conspicuously seen on its under surface ; the greater wing- 

 coverts, and tertiaries in part, rufous-edged, and a faint trace of yellow- 

 ish on the margins of the primaries and secondaries. Bill dusky > and 

 legs brown, neither light nor dark. Locality uncertain. 



The two last, with the other new generic forms indicated in this 

 paper, are all of very distinct character, insomuch that the propriety of 

 their separation will hardly be disputed, though it may be that at 

 least part of them bear prior appellations, and that some of my pre- 

 sumed new species have been described in works to which I have not 

 access. This, however, is a chance to which all who venture on pro- 

 posing a name must be liable, and I trust that if I have failed in iden- 

 tifying some species which are even tolerably well known, this will 

 have been compensated by the number of synonyms which I have suc- 

 ceeded in reducing, while, at all events, until such pre-bestowed terms 

 can be learned, those here applied will still be temporarily useful as sub- 

 stitutes, and I think I need hardly add that I have duly laboured in 

 every instance in endeavouring to find a name, before venturing to coin 

 those provisional ones which I have ultimately resolved upon pro- 

 posing. 



Feb. 26th, 1842. 



