1844.] for December Meeting, 1842. 379 



olive-brown, the lower paler and rufescent ; crown, throat, and face, 

 dusky-black, the coronal feathers laterally margined with whitish-grey; 

 chin somewhat albescent, and a white moustache from the base of the 

 lower mandible : bill dusky-horn above, the lower mandible whitish ; 

 and legs pale. Nepal. 



2. St. pyrrhops, Hodgson. Length about five inches, of wing two 

 inches, and tail the same : bill to gape five-eighths of an inch ; and 

 tarse three-quarters of an inch. Upper-parts slightly greenish olivace- 

 ous, tinged with rufous on the head ; below rufescent, more or less 

 brown ; lores and chin black, a pale line impending the latter : beak 

 brown ; and legs pale, probably greenish. The young differ only in the 

 looser texture of their feathers. Nepal. 



3. St. chryscea, Hodgson. Length four inches and a quarter, of 

 wing two inches, and tail an inch and seven-eighths : bill from gape 

 nine-sixteenths of an inch, and tarse eleven-sixteenths. Upper-parts 

 yellowish-olivaceous, the lower bright yellow; wings and tail dusky, 

 margined with the colour of the back ; forehead and crown yellow, 

 the latter with black central streaks to the feathers ; lores black ; bill 

 plumbeous ; and legs pale yellowish. Nepal, Arracan. 



4? The JEgitalus flammiceps, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 153, may 

 perhaps belong to this group. 



Erpornis, Hodgson. Combines the bill and crested crown of the 

 preceding with the wings and tail of lora* 



* Mr. Hodgson sends the following diagnostics of his genera Stachyris, Erpornis, 

 and Mixornis. 



" Stachyris, Mini. ( Certhiance ? Leiotrichance ? Parlance? [I do not hesitate to 

 place it as above.— E. B.] Bill equal to head, very strong, pointed, and trenchant; 

 tips equal and entire ; its form conico-compressed and higher than broad, with culmen 

 raised between prolonged nareal fossoe. Nares basal, lateral, with ovoid posteal aper- 

 ture, the front being closed by the very salient rude scale above. Gape smooth. 

 Frontlet rigid. Tongue cartilaginous, bifid, simple. Legs and feet very strong, suited 

 to creeping and climbing in inverted strained positions. Tarse very stout, longer than 

 any toe or nail. Toes short, unequal, depressed, basally connected, the hind stoutest 

 and exceeding the inner fore. Nails very falcate and acute. Wings short, feeble, 

 the first four primaries much graduated, the four next subequal. Tail medial, simple, 

 firm. 



"Type St. nigriceps. Sylvan, shy; creeps among foliage, buds and flowers, like 

 Zosterops and Orthotomus ; feeds on minute hard insects and their eggs and larvae. 

 Habitat, hills exclusively, central region chiefly. Sexes alike. 



" Erpornis, Mihi (fp7rw, t o creep]. Close to the last form. Bill medial, conico- 

 compressed, strong, straight, scarpt, pointed; the tip of the upper mandible rather 



