382 Appendix to Mr. BlytKs Report QNo. 149. 



stated to have been pre-employed in Entomology, and Goldana is 

 substituted for it ; but in the second edition of that work, the former 

 appellation is restored to Ornithology. 



The very curious species upon which the genus Macronous was 

 founded, has more the character of the true Timalice than any of those 

 which follow, and has been described in J. A. S. XI, 795. 



Next to it, I had arranged a bird which has recently been described 

 by Mr. Strickland by the name Malacopteron macrodactylum (Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 417), but I still consider it to merit 

 separation, from the general robustness of its conformation, and the 

 great strength of the tarse and of the middle and hind toes. The bill 

 closely resembles that of Macronous. I designate it 



Turdinus, Nobis. Form somewhat Meruline, thick-set, with large 

 strong legs and toes, and rounded wings and tail. Bill as long as the 

 head, moderately stout, straight, compressed, the ridge of the upper 

 mandible angulated, its tip emarginated, and curving over that of the 

 lower mandible ; nostrils oval, and pierced in the fore-part of the nasal 

 membrane, at some distance from the frontal feathers ; rictus well 

 armed : legs stout, the tarse equalling the middle toe with its claw ; 

 outer and inner toes equal, and proportionally small, their terminal 

 joint reaching only to the penultimate joint of the middle toe ; hind 

 toe strong, and furnished with a rather large claw, but moderately 

 curved : wings much graduated, the fifth to the ninth primaries 

 inclusive subequal and longest, the first about half their length ; tail 

 also graduated externally, and hollowed underneath ; plumage lax and 

 scale-like, at least on the upper-parts, very copious and puffy over the 

 rump. 



T. macrodactylus , (Strickland) Blyth. Length about seven inches 

 (making allowance for the manner in which the skins which I have 

 seen have been prepared), of wing three and a half, and tail two and a 

 half; bill to gape an inch ; tarse an inch and one-eighth ; hind-toe and 

 claw seven-eighths. Colour a rich brown above, generally darker on 

 the crown, the centres of the feathers paler, and their margins black ; 

 rump inclining to rusty, and devoid of marking : wings and tail also 

 plain rusty-brown, darkening on the latter: throat white, with the 

 shaft of each feather blackish, terminating in a slight spot more deve- 

 loped towards the breast ; rest of the under-parts confusedly mottled, 



