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colour, of the legs and feet, and also the much shorter bill, have decided me to adopt the 

 present course with it. Length five inches and three-quarters, of wing two inches 

 and five-eighths, and tail two inches and a half, its outermost feather nearly five- 

 eighths of an inch shorter than the middle ones; bill to forehead (through the feathers,) 

 not five-eighths of an inch, and nearly thirteen-sixteenths of an inch to gape; tarse 

 three-quarters of an inch; middle toe and claw under eleven-sixteenths of an inch, 

 and hind toe and claw rather more than half an inch, General colour rather paler than 

 in the preceding, excepting on the head ; the nape much paler ; and rump inclining 

 to fulvous more than rufous : tail and its coverts brighter rufous than in the other; and 

 breast crossed with pale fuscous. Bill wholly pale, and legs appear to have been green. * 



*Goldana (G. R. Gray) nigrocapitata ; Brachypteryxf nigrocapitata, Eyton, 

 P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103, — distinct from Br. atriceps of Jerdon. Length six inches and a 

 quarter to six and a half, of wing two inches and five-eighths, and tail the same, 

 its outermost feather five-eighths of an inch shorter than the middle ones ; bill to 

 forehead (through the feathers) eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and to gape seven-eighths 

 ef an inch ; tarse an inch and one-eighth. General hue of the upper parts rufous- 

 brown, of the under bright ferruginous : throat white, flanked by a black streak : cap 

 black, bordered by a white superciliary streak and loral feathers ; ear-coverts dusky, 

 minutely iineaied with white and posteriorly with rufous : sides of the head ashy ; bill 

 horny-black above, the lower mandible yellowish-white ; and legs brown. 



*Oriolus castanapterus, Nobis. A typical Oriole of small dimensions. Specimen 

 apparently female, or perhaps young male. Length about eight inches, of wing four 

 inches and a quarter, and tail two inches and one-eighth ; bill to forehead seven- 

 eighths of an inch, and to gape an inch ; tarse three-quarters of an inch. Plumage ge- 



identical with T. Horsfieldi, Jardine and Selby, III. Orn. pi. CXIX : vide J. A. S. XI, p. 199. 

 Rather a peculiar species, with not a little of the form and aspect of Calamophilus. — T. 

 platyura, Jerdon, Supplement. " Plumage above dark olive-brown, beneath ochry yellowish ; 

 bill yellow-horny; legs fleshy- yellow; irides yellowish-brown: tail-feathers obsoletely barred, 

 very broad ; 1st and 2nd quills graduated, 4th longest, 3rd and 5th equal. Length five inches and 

 a quarter ; wing two inches and a half; tail two inches and a half; tarsus nine-tenths; bill at front 

 four-tenths; at gape six-tenths: bill much compressed; plumage very lax. I was at first," con- 

 tinues Mr. Jerdon, "inclined to take this little bird for a Warbler, but a review of all its 

 characters has induced me for the present to place it among the Timalice. I procured a specimen 

 in long reedy grass at Goodaloor at the foot of the Neilghierri'es. It took short flights and 

 endeavoured to conceal itself among the thick reeds. Its food consisted of insects." Possibly 

 a member of my new genus Trichastoma described in the text, as is decidedly Mr. Jtrdon's 

 Timalia poiocephala, which he has sent me. (Vide Addendum introduced at the close of Appendix, 

 No. 2, of the present Report.) 



* A third species of this group exists in the Timalia poiocephala of Mr. Jerdon's Supplement, 

 which has a good deal the aspect of a Curruca, and likewise considerably resembles the Hemiparus 

 (olim Siva) Nipalensis, Hodgson, Ind. Rev., 1838, p. 89, but is readily distinguished from it by the 

 rufescent hue of its under-parts, the length of the rictorial vibrissae, and absence of any dark line 

 over and beyond the eye. Length six inches, or nearly so ; of wing two inches and five-eighths, and 

 tail two inches and a half; bill to forehead (through the feathers) above half an inch, and three- 

 quarters of an inch to gape ; tarse seven-eighths of an inch. Head and neck dull cinereous, the body 

 greenish olive-brown, inclining to tawney on the rump, wings, and tail ; beneath light rufescent- 

 brown, the rufous tinge increasing on the belly, and lower tail-coverts dull tawney. Bill dusky 

 above, yellowish at the edges and tip; "legs pale fleshy; and irides white. I procured a single 

 specimen of this bird," writes Mr. Jerdon, "on the Coonoor Ghaut, in high forest jungle. It was 

 alone, flying from branch to branch, and had been feeding on small insects." The vibrissa; in this 

 species are less lengthened and thicker than in the others. 



t Previously employed in other classes. — G. R. Gray. 



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