380 Appendix to Mr. Blyitis Report [No. 149. 



Erp. zantkoleuca, Hodgson. Length about five inches, of wing 

 two and a half, and tail an inch and seven- eighths: bill to gape 

 five-eighths of an inch, and tarse the same. Entire upper-parts light 

 olive. green, the lower dull white; coronal feathers elongated and 

 spatulate : bill dusky yellowish-brown, and feet pale. Young having 

 looser feathers, those of the crown not spatulate, and general colour 

 of the upper-parts weaker and somewhat rufescent. Nepal ; common 

 in Arracan, and occurs also in the Malay peninsula. 



lora, Horsfield. There are three distinct species of this genus, 

 which have been erroneously considered identical ; viz. 



1. /. zeylonica; Motacilla zeylonica, Gmelin ; /. meliceps, apud 

 Horsfield, J. A. S, X, 50. Inhabits the Indian peninsula, and is at once 

 distinguished by the jetty-black cap of the male, with more or less of 

 this colour margining the dorsal plumage ; tail also margined with 

 yellowish-white, with often traces of green towards the extremities 

 of the feathers. 



2. /. typhia; Motacilla typhia, Lin. Inhabits Bengal, Nepal, Assam, 

 and Arracan, being somewhat rare in the last-named province. Has no 

 black except on the wings and tail of the male, though a dusky tinge 

 is often perceptible on the crown and back of the male. One speci- 

 men only, of many dozens obtained in the vicinity of Calcutta during 

 the height of the breeding season, has the hinder half of the crown 



longer and notched. Nares elliptic, lateral, free, and placed in a membranous groove, 

 with small process above the aperture. Tongue cartilaginous, simple. Wings medial, 

 round, acuminate, firm, the fifth primary longest, first small. Tail subfurcate, simple. 

 Legs and feet strong and repertatory, feebler than in Stachyris, but otherwise similar. 

 " Type, Erp. zantholeuca. Hab. central region. Sexes alike. Structure and 

 habits passing from those of last towards those of Zosterops, by the notched bill, 

 stronger wings, shorter feet, and furcate tail. 



" Mixornis, Mihi \PwQ9 compound]. Still near the last, but tending to lora. 

 Bill rather plus head, elongate, conic, but culmen and commissure inclining to arch: 

 base subdepressed, gradually attenuated to blunt tip : upper mandible barely longer, 

 or notched. Tomiee scarpt, erect, entire. Nares ovoid, free, fossed, shaded behind by 

 fossal membrane. Wings submedial, rounded, the fifth and sixth primaries subequal 

 and longest; four first consecutively graduated. Tail medial, rounded, simple. Legs 

 and feet suited to creeping and clinging. Tarsus smooth, strong, rather plus any toe. 

 Toes short, unequal, depressed, basally connected : hind large, and in length equal to 

 outer fore. Nails highly curved and acute. 



" Type M. chloris [Timalia and lora chloris, XI, 794; closely allied to T. gularis, 

 Horsfield]. Hab. Lower hills. Sexes alike. Shy and exclusively arboreal. Essen- 

 tially linked to the two last by its powerful bill and creeping feet, but leans towards 

 lora and Sylvian forms in the depression of the base of the bill." 



