370 Appendix to Mr. Blyth's Report [No. 149. 



9. M. (?) pellotis ; Timalia pellotis, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX, 182. 

 Nepal. 



10. M. (?) nipalensis ; Timalia nipalensis, Hodgson, he. cit. Mr. 

 Hodgson has forwarded two skins as examples of his T. pellotis and 

 T. leucotis, which latter would seem to be only another name for his 

 nipalensis, which is stated by him to have the entire cheeks pure 

 white ; the state of the specimen does not permit me to distinguish 

 it from T. pellotis, to which, at all events, it is very closely allied.* 



The true Malacocerci have been considered peculiar to India, but 

 the Crater ojyus Jardinii of Dr. Andrew Smith's ' Zoology of South 

 Africa' appears to me to belong decidedly to the present group, rather 

 than to Crateropus v. Garrulax ; and I should also place here the 

 Malurus squamiceps and M. acacice of Ruppell. The Timalia hypery- 

 thra of Franklin, though of very diminutive size, is so closely allied to 

 M. subrufus, that I almost think it should be ranged with it:t and of 

 the other reputed Timalice of Southern India, T. hypoleuca, Franklin, 

 is the type of Mr. Hodgson's genus Chrysomma, being, I think, separa- 

 ted with propriety, and Mr. Frith informs me that there is a second 

 species of this form in Bengal, additional to hypoleuca, (vel Horsfieldi, 

 Jardine and Selby), from which it differs in being about half larger : 

 the T. platyura, Jerdon, approaches more to Sphenura than aught else, 

 but cannot well rank therein, its bill much resembling that of Sph. 

 striata, (J. A. S. XI, 603..) but the vibrissa being less develop- 

 ed :J and lastly, the T. poiocephala, Jerdon, I refer to an extensive 

 Malayan group, exemplified by Malacopteron, Eyton, which is my 

 Trichastoma, XI, 795, and is hereinafter subdivided, the species in 

 question falling under my division Alcippe, p. 384. 



Gampsorhynchus, Nobis, n. g. Allied to the long- tailed Malacocerci, 

 and also to Sphenura, but the bill intermediate in form to those of 

 Turdus and Lanius, and the gape conspicuously armed with straight 

 vibrissa : it is nearly equal to the head, moderately compressed, the 

 ridge of the upper mandible obtusely angulated, and its outline curv- 



* The Malacocerci appear all to lay bright blue eggs, at least such is the colour of 

 those of M. terricolor, griseus, and chatarhcea, in the Society's Museum; and the 

 Oxylophus serratus, which lays a nearly similar egg, but having a greenish cast, 

 resorts to their nests to deposit it in. 



t The crest of this species allies it to Stachyris, Hodgson, p. 378. 



J Vide p. 374. 



