458 Asiatic Society. [No. 125. 



of the upper-parts, to the inter-scapularies and scapularies inclusive, and of the lower 

 parts to the breast inclusive, is of the usual chai-acter in this genus, having rigid and 

 pointed shafts, which are yellowish-white, contrasting on the upper parts with a 

 dusky border ; while the feathers on the hind-part of the back, rump, and on the belly, 

 are short and downy : scapularies indistinctly barred with dusky, as also the feathers on 

 the sides of the neck and breast, the bars on these being contracted into spots : sides, 

 tibial plumes, and under tail- coverts, fulvescent- white, and more distinctly barred 

 with black. The specimen described is a young male, which had nearly assumed the 

 adult plumage, but has a few feathers of the juvenescent garb remaining; the adult 

 primaries and secondaries are thus shown to be uniform chestnut-rufous, while the 

 immature are barred with black ; and the adult tertiaries only differ from the pri- 

 maries in being tinged with dusky : tail black, with a slight green shine, and tipped 

 with whitish, the uropygials and upper coverts barred with rufous : rump dusky, 

 tipped with rufescent and whitish, and belly pure white. " Irides carmine. Bill light 

 horn : and legs dark leaden-blue." 



Macropteryx longipennis, Swainson; Hirundo klecho, Tern. : male, 



Crypsirina vagabunda. 



Pastor tristis. 



P. cinereus, Jerdon : two specimens. 



*Edolius ccerulescens. 



Lanius Hardwickii. 



Graucalus Papuensis ; G. Nipalensis, Hodgson, ' Indian Review,' I. 327 : male 

 and female. 



Pericrocotus (Phcenicornis, Sw.^ princeps : a male and two females. 



Muscicapa melanops, Vigors, P. Z. <$., 1831, 171, and figured in Gould's Century ■, 

 plate VI. 



M. cozrulea, Vieillot ; M. occipitalis, Vigors, P. Z. S., 1831, 97 : female, being the 

 M. cceruleocephala, Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, 85, 



*M. picata, Sykes, P. Z. S.-. 1832, 85: two males. This species is erroneously 

 identified by Mr. Jerdon with the M. hirundinacea, Reinwardt, v. M. obscura, 

 Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII. 146, and figured by him in the ' Zoological Researches 

 in Java' ; but the latter is at once distinguished from it by having no white on the 

 wings, nor on the sides of the neck ; neither are any of its tail-feathers white-tipped. 

 The African M. picata of Swainson was subsequently so named, and must conse- 

 quently receive another appellation. 



* M. Poonensis, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, 85. 



* Muscicapa (?) superciliaris, Jerdon, Madras Journal No. XXVI. 16; Dimorpha 

 albogularis, Nobis, ante, p. 190. 



* Hirundo filifera, Stephens; H. filicaudata, Franklin, P. Z. S., 1831, 115; 

 Wire-tailed Swallow of Latham. 



Ixosjocosus : male and female. 



pusillus; Hcematornis (Sw.) pusillus, Nobis, Report for last September, J, 



A. S., X. 841 : male and female. 



Chloropsis aurifrons, Jardine and Selby ; Chi. ccesmarhynchos, Tickell, J. A. S. II. 

 577 : two specimens marked female, and not differing in plumage from the adult male, 

 further than that there is less yellow surrounding the black of the fore-neck. This 

 handsome species is no despicable songster, and lives and sings well in confinement. 



