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of pointed feathers. Length seven inches and a quarter, or probably as much as eight 

 inches in the recent specimen ; of wing four inches ; and tail three inches and a half : 

 bill to forehead (through the feathers) nearly five-eighths of an inch, and to gape three- 

 quarters of an inch ; tarse three-quarters of an inch. Colour of the upper-parts, wings, 

 and tail, throat, neck, and breast, deep black, without the green shine of P. sultaneus : 

 and top of the head, belly and lower tail-coverts, brilliant yellow, the coronal feathers 

 lengthened but rounded. Bill black, and feet bluish lead colour. Possibly enough, 

 this may yet prove to be the P. Jiavocristatus of M. Lafresnoy, rather than Mr. 

 Hodgson's P. sultaneus. 



*Timalia pectoralis, Nobis. Beak nearly resembling that of T. pileata, Horsfield, 

 but longer, less laterally compressed, and not quite so deep. Length about six inches 

 and a half, of wing three inches and a quarter, and tail three inches, the latter scarcely 

 rounded, but the outermost feather five-sixteenths of an inch shorter than the next, which 

 again does not quite equal the others ; bill to forehead f through the feathers,; three-quar- 

 ters of an inch, and to gape fifteen-sixteenths of an inch ; tarse an inch : colour of the 

 upper- parts, to the rump, olivaceous, the coronal feathers darker along their centres ; 

 throat black, and feathers of the fore-neck and breast also black, but each elegantly 

 and conspicuously margined with white : rump, upper tail-coverts, and basal margins 

 of the rectrices, bright rufo-ferruginous, the rest of the tail-feathers reddish-brown, 

 tipped and slightly edged with rufous ; flanks olivaceous ; the lower tail-coverts 

 ruddy : bill dusky-black, the lower mandible whitish underneath ; and feet leaden- 

 dusky. A supposed female is rather smaller in all its dimensions, with the breast- 

 markings less developed. 



*T. erythronotus, Nobis. Bill as in last, but rather less elongated. Length six inches 

 to six and three-eighths, of wing two inches and a half to two and three-quarters, and 

 tail two inches and a quarter to two inches and a half; bill to forehead (through the fea- 

 thers) eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and to gape seven-eighths of an inch; tarse seven 

 eighths of an inch. Colour of the upper-parts deep rufo-ferruginous ; the forehead black, 

 with whitish lateral margins to the feathers, imparting a striated appearance; crown and 

 back of the neck dull rufous-brown, passing into the ferruginous of the back and 

 wings ; and sides of the neck, with the under-parts from the breast, dark fuscous-ashy ; 

 throat and breast black, the bordering feathers of the latter having a subterminal narrow 

 white bar ; above the eye also black, and a small white line passing from the 

 eye backward ; likewise a white moustachial patch near the base of the lower 

 mandible : tail much graduated, and, with the primaries, dusky edged with rufous ; 

 the lower tail-coverts dark faintly rufous brown : bill black, white at base of lower 

 mandible ; and feet dusky-leaden. 



*T. striata, Nobis. A small species, with proportionally shorter bill than in the pre- 

 ceding. Length five inches and a half* of wing two inches and a half to two and five- 

 eighths, and tail two inches, the outermost feather three-eighths of an inch shorter ; bill 

 to forehead (through the - feathers,) nearly five-eighths of an inch, and to gape al- 

 most seven-eighths of an inch ; tarse three-fourths of an inch. Head and neck above 

 black, or rather brown-black, the feathers of the mesial line white about the shaft, 

 forming a streak of this colour along the middle of the head, besides which are two 

 slight lateral streaks not observable in every specimen, in addition to a superciliary 

 line of the same : on the nape the white centres of the feathers broaden and are 





