460 Asiatic Society. [No. 125. 



A species is figured and described by Messrs. Jardine and Selby, III. Orn., pi. 

 CXUV, as S. Himalayensis, which, if not the same, must be very closely allied to 

 that described by Mr. Hodgson (in Journ. As. Soc. V. 779,) as S. Nipalensis* ; the 

 latter naturalist also describes an S. corallina floe. cit.J, which would appear to border 

 closely upon Dendrophila frontalis, and there is another Dendrophila adverted to by 

 Mr. Swainson as D. flavipes, with which I am unacquainted. These are all the 

 Indian species of the present group I as yet know of, and as many as three are now 

 ascertained to inhabit Europe, besides several in North America. 



Oriolus Hodsonii, v. Asiatic melanocephalus : a male in mature plumage, and one 

 in second plumage, or that which succeeds to the nestling garb ; this second dress 

 representing the O. McCoshii, Tickell, J. A. S., II. 577, and being generally mista- 

 ken for the female livery of the species. 



Turdus unicolor, Gould, P. Z. S., 1837, 136, but not T. unicolor, Tickell, J. A.S. 

 II. 577 ; which latter having been first bestowed, it is necessary to rename the pre- 

 sent species, which I therefore propose to designate T. modestus. 



*T. (Oreocincla, Gould J parvirostris, Gould, P. Z. S., 1837, 136: two males. 



Petrocincla Manillensis (?) ; Turdus Manillensis, Gmelin; le Merle Solitaire de 

 Manille, Buffon, Hist. Nat., Ois., II. 363; P. Pandoo, Sykes, and the female P. 

 Maal, Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, 87-8. Accordingly, this species would extend to the 

 Phillipines, Tenasserim, and Peninsular India ; but I am not yet certain that the 

 Indian bird has ever any rufous on the under-parts. A specimen from Luqonia, 

 which I adjudge to be a young male once moulted, has the whole upper-parts, throat, 

 and breast, cyaneous, tipped with dusky-brown on the crown, with greyish — across, 

 which passes a blackish bar — on the interscapularies, and with whitish— having a 

 similar black bar — on the scapularies and small wing-coverts ; throat, fore-part of the 

 neck, and breast, also broadly tipped with fulvous-white, having a black subterminal 

 cross-streak ; belly, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and fore-part of the under-surface 

 of the wings, deep ferruginous, the abdominal feathers broadly edged with whitish, 

 having a narrow black subterminal band, and above this more or less cyaneous, espe- 

 cially on the flanks; wings and tail dusky-black, more or less edged with cyaneous 

 and whitish : in this state of plumage it is the Turdus Manillensis, Gmelin. A spe- 

 cimen from Tenasserim, minutely agreeing in all other respects, has the feathers of the 

 upper-parts less bordered, the axillaries and under-surface of the wing have merely 

 a few slight traces of the rufous colouring, which is replaced by cyaneous, the large 

 under tail-coverts are partly of this latter hue, which is also considerably developed 

 on the abdominal feathers, and almost wholly supercedes the rufous on the flanks. 

 Another specimen from Tenasserim has but a very slight trace of rufous left towards 

 the vent and bordering the under tail-coverts, being elsewhere wholly cyaneous, 

 excepting the dusky black of the large wing and tail feathers, and the tips of some of 

 the wing-coverts, which are whitish. Finally, the Chyebassa specimen is totally devoid 

 of any rufous trace whatever, but has most of its clothing feathers slightly dusky-tipped, 

 with minute pallid extreme tips, in which condition of plumage it accords with P. Pan- 

 doo, Sykes. A female, being the P. Maal, Sykes, before me, (locality unknown,) 

 corresponds in plumage to the same sex of the Himalayan P. erythrogastra, but has 



* The Society has since received S. Nipalensis from Mr. Hodgson, and it is distinct. 



