1844.] for December Meeting, 1842. 393 



nated by Scopoli.* P. nigricollis, Nobis (of which I suspect P. rodo- 

 gaster to be merely the young), is the P. cucullata, Hartlaub, des- 

 cribed in the Rev. ZooL, 1843, p. 65, and recently by Mr. Strickland 

 in the An. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 410. Mr. Strickland retains 

 the name Pitta for this genus, rejecting Brachyurus, Thunberg, 

 which Mr. G. R. Gray proposes should be substituted. 



P. 963. Genus Phylloscopus. All the species described, with the 

 exception of Ph. magnirostris, (which I have now reason to suspect 

 is the Sylvia javanica, Horsfield), and two or three others in addition 

 to them, have now been obtained by Mr. Jerdon in Southern India. 

 Ph. tristis, Nobis, was referred to Sylvia trochitus in that gentleman's 

 first catalogue. 



P. 968. Culicipeta Burkii. Add Cryptolopha auricapilla, Swainson 

 ('Menag.', p. 343), as another synonym. 



P. 983. Diceum Tickellice, Nobis, is the Ccrthia erythrorhynchus, 

 Latham ; the young bird having a fleshy-red bill, which colour 

 is much exaggerated in one of Buchanan Hamilton's drawings, a 

 duplicate of which was probably Latham's authority for the species. 

 The specific name erythrorhynchus is, however, so inappropriate that 

 it can scarcely be retained 



P. 985. Magpies. I was wrong in identifying the Chilian species 

 with that of Europe, which latter has since been received by the So- 

 ciety. The other is intermediate in its proportions to P. bottanensis 

 and P. caudata, and may be termed 



P. media, Nobis. Exactly similar to the British Magpie, but 

 larger, with proportionally stouter legs, and tail scarcely so long. 

 Length of wing eight inches and a quarter, that of the Bootan species 

 measuring nine and three-quarters, and of the European Magpie 

 but seven inches. Middle tail-feathers ten inches ; bill to gape 

 one and seven-eighths ; and tarse two inches and one-eighth. In- 

 habits the Andes. The tertiaries and borders of the secondaries are 

 of a finer steel-purple than in the European species, and the gloss of 

 the tail is greener, with less of a bronze cast. The tail of the Yellow- 

 billed Magpie of Western North America has again a different gloss ; 

 and I remember seeing a species smaller than that of Britain among 



* Vide, however, a Note by Mr. Strickland in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History 5 for July 1844, p. 47. 



