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brown, as also the front of the neck contiguous to the ear-coverts, where but a narrow 

 mesial line of fulvous-white passes from the throat to the gorget ; bend of the wing 

 beneath, and axillaries, pale fulvous brown; a whitish streak from the nostril to 

 the eye ; and bill horny-black, with the basal half of the lower mandible yellow ; the 

 latter is broad at base, and evenly attenuating; and the feet apparently are lead- 

 coloured. 



Pycnonotus (Kuhl) melanocephalus : Lanius melanocepkalus, Gmelin; Turdoides 

 atriceps, Temminck: not Brachypus melanocephalus of Hardwicke and Gray, 

 which I followed in so designating — Vol. XI, p. 168, where I identified with it the 

 Vanga Jiaviventris, Tickell, J. A. S. II, 573, though it is far enough removed from a 

 typical Vanga. The present is clearly enough the species referred to Turdoides 

 atriceps, Tern. PL Col.t. 147, in Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom,' VI, 389, and again 

 in 'Shaw's Zoology,' VII, 330; but as both descriptions are brief and defective, I 

 subjoin the following. Length six inches and a quarter, of wing two inches and seven- 

 eighths, and tail, which is considerably rounded, two inches and a half, its outermost 

 feather being above three-eighths of an inch shorter: bill to forehead (through the 

 feathers) nine-sixteenths of an inch, and to gape three-quarters of an inch : tarse barely 

 half an inch. General colour olive-green, brightening to yellow on the upper and under 

 tail-coverts, belly and flanks : the whole head and throat glossy black : primaries and 

 inner webs of the tertiaries dusky -black, as also the other wing-feathers interiorly ; 

 and tail greenish for the basal two-thirds, then dusky-black, and tipped with yellow 

 more developed on its lateral feathers. The irides are in this genus, usually, it 

 not always, crimson. A young specimen is rather smaller in all its dimensions, 

 but scarcely less bright in colouring, except on the head and throat, where the black 

 is merely indicated. In both, the plumage of the rump is black at base, broadly 

 margined with yellow, as in certain allied species. 

 ^ P. (?) cyaniventris, Nobis. Length six inches and a quarter, of wing three inches 



— and one-eighth, and tail two inches and seven-eighths ; bill to forehead (through the 



feathers) nearly five-eighths of an inch, and to gape eleven-sixteenths of an inch; tarse 

 half an inch. Colour of the upper-parts uniform yellowish olive-green; the head, neck, 

 and under-parts uniform dark bluish ash-colour, bordering on plumbeous, except the 

 lower tail-coverts which are bright yellow, as are also the edges of the wings anteriorly : 

 primaries dusky, together with the inner and terminal portions of the caudal feathers. 

 Bill dusky, and legs lead-coloured. I place this bird provisionally in this genus, 

 though far from satisfied of the propriety of so doing. As compared with the preced- 

 ing species, the bill is more Thrush-like, though small; the nostrils very different; 

 the gape furnished with much smaller and less conspicuous seta); the tail even, or 

 all but so ; and the claws less minute ; the ensemble, in a word, is different, though 

 the technical characters sufficiently apply. 

 * Chloropsis Malabaricus : adult and young. 

 *Parus Sumatranus (?); Melanochlora Sumatrana (?), Lesson, as quoted by 

 Mr. G. K. Gray ('List of the Genera of Birds, with their Synonymes,' 1st edit.. 

 p. 23), who, doubtfully identifying with it the P. Jlavocristatus, Lafr., v. (apud 

 Horsfield) P. sullaneus, Hodgson, I think there can be little doubt that the bird now 

 before me is referred to. This only differs from P. sultaneus in its inferior size, 

 and in the rounded form of the crest, which does not consist, as in the other, 



