586 Asiatic Society. [No. 126. 



From W. Masters, Esq. a recent Chinese Lory (Lorius Sinensis). 



From R. W. G. Frith, Esq. through Mr. Hampton, mounted specimens of the 

 following species of Birds. 



Athene Brodiei: Noctua Brodiei, Burton, P. Z. S., 1835, 152, seu N. tubiger, 

 Hodgson, As. Res. XIX, 175, bearing date 1836. 



Garrulce leucogenys, Nobis : being the eighteenth species of this genus with 

 which I am now acquainted from Northern India. This generic title holds precedence 

 of Crateropus. Swainson, and lanthocincla, Gould, applied to the same group, certain 

 species of which have been referred to Cinclosoma by Mr. Vigors, and others by 

 Mr. Hodgson. I have elsewhere endeavoured to reduce the synonyms of the various 

 members of this genus, and have prepared descriptions of the present and another 

 new species, for which vide p. 180, ante.* 



Francolinus vulgaris. 



Fr. Pondicerianus : Tetrao Pondicerianus, Gmelin ; Perdix orientalis, Latham, 

 but not of Horsfield. A figure and interesting notice of the habits of this species have 

 been published in the ' Bengal Sporting Magazine,' for October, 1840. 



Fr. gularis : Perdix gularis, Tem : figured as the Chicore, in the 'Bengal Sporting 

 Magazine' for September, 1839, but which must not be confounded with the true 

 Chicore (Perdix Chukar) of the Himalaya. 



Ortygis, allied to Hernipodius atrogularis, Eyton, P. Z. S., 1839,107, and 

 scarcely less so to O. pugnax and O. taigoor, all these species having a black throat 

 and fore-neck in the mature male, and which is broader in the present species than 

 in the two latter : from these it is readily enough distinguished by the predominance 

 of black on the upper parts, the more strongly marked large oval spots of this colour 

 on the wing-coverts, and the hue of the belly which is merely tinged with rufous ; size 

 intermediate. On some future occasion, I hope to do something towards elucidating 

 the Quails, dwarf Partridges, and Ortyges of India, which at present are a most per- 

 plexing group, notwithstanding the exertions of Col. Sykes, and of subsequent inves- 

 tigators, who as yet have but very partially analysed the numerous species. f 



Of the foregoing six species of birds presented by Mr. Frith to the Society, four 

 are new to their Museum; viz. the tiny Owl, the Crateropus, the Wood Partridge, 

 and the Ortygis. 



Numerous specimens of birds have also been added to our collection, procured in 

 the bazaar, among which it will be sufficient to notice a few of the more interesting. 



Caprimulgus macrourus, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, 142. A very handsome male. 

 We before possessed specimens of what appear to me to be the female of this speces, 

 and which, if so, are remarkable for the pale colour predominating much more than 

 in the other sex. J 



Tringa platyrhyncha, Temminck. A male in winter plumage ; one in summer 

 garb, from the old China collection, having been already in the Museum. The only 

 additional species of this genus, which I have hitherto met with, are — Tr. subarquata 

 which is not rare, and Tr. minuta, which is exceedingly abundant. 



* I have since become acquainted with several additional species, which I shall describe in a 

 more elaborate monagraph of the genus. — Cur. As. Soc. 



t I have since prepared the analysis above mentioned, which will appear in a subsequent Reporl: 

 the bird above noticed is Mr. Eyton's atrogularis. — Ibid. 



X This appears to be common in Nepal. — Ibid. 



