1844.] for December Meeting, 1842. 385 



et rectrices badio-fuscse, extern* fere badiae ; rectrices duse mediae con- 

 colores. Crissum badio testaceum." Hab. Java. 



6. A. (?) bicolor ; Brachypteryx bicolor, Lesson, Rev. Zool. de la Soc. 

 Cuv., 1838, p. 138. " Corpore supra, sincipite, genis caudaque brunneo- 

 spadiceis ; gula, collo, thorace, abdomineque albo sericeo ; tibiarum 

 plumis castaneis. Rostro livido; pedibus subincamatis." Hab. Sumatra. 



The Brachypteryx nigrocapitata, Eyton, is rather a peculiar species, 

 intermediate in development of bill to Malacopteron and Alcippe, but 

 having the lengthened rictal vibrissse characteristic of those divisions 

 little more than rudimentary. It is described in J. A. S. 9 XI, 796. 



Setaria, Nobis. Very close to Alcippe, but cannot exactly be arrang- 

 ed therein. Bill shorter than the head, moderately stout, somewhat 

 depressed at base, a little compressed beyond the nostrils, the upper 

 mandible slightly emarginated, its ridge angulated throughout, and the 

 tips of both distinctly accurved : rictus armed with large setae, which 

 are particularly strong and firm towards their base, offering much 

 resistance ; the frontal feathers also are erect and rigid to the feel, and 

 especially those which surmount the loral region. Wings of mean length, 

 having the fifth and sixth primaries longest : tail also of mean length, 

 a little graduated externally. Feet moderately stout, the outermost toe 

 exceeding the inner one in length, the hind toe and claw large and 

 strong, equalling in length the middle toe with its claw, and all the 

 claws moderately curved. Plumage lax, but squamate upon the crown, 

 copious and puffy over the rump. 



S. albogularis, Nobis. Length about five inches and a quarter, 

 of wing two and three-quarters, and tail two and a quarter; bill 

 to forehead half an inch, to gape eleven-sixteenths of an inch ; tarse 

 three-quarters of an inch ; hind toe and claw above five-eighths of an 

 inch. Upper-parts olive brown, tinged with rufous on the rump ; head, 

 including ear-coverts, dark ash-colour, with a white streak over but not 

 beyond the eye, and meeting its opposite above the base of the bill ; 

 lores black ; throat white ; an ash-coloured band across the breast ; 

 flanks and under tail-coverts rufescent, and belly white slightly tinged 

 with the same : bill black above, beneath whitish ; and feet have pro- 

 bably been greenish. Received from Singapore. 



The following very distinct form athong^the "Flycatchers is also be- 

 lieved to be from the same quarter. 



