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rest of the under-parts, with the feathers immediately above the bill, and a streak over 

 the eye, white; primaries darker, and the secondaries partly white on their outer web. 

 Bill wholly blackish ; legs pale greyish-green, the toes darker. In summer dress, the 

 forehead, lores, ear-coverts, and beneath the eye, are black, having a white mark on 

 each side of the forehead ; the neck and breast are bright rufous, contrasting with the 

 pure white throat ; the head is deeply tinged with rufous, more or less ; and the back 

 and especially the scapularies are partially margined with the same. This bird is 

 much less common than the next, and I have only now and then found one among 

 the heaps of the other species in the bazar : Mr. Jerdon has recently met with both in 

 Southern India; and the Society has received both species from Mr. Hodgson of 

 Nepal. Ch. Geqffroyi is described by Wagler from Pondicherry. 



Ch. Leschenaultii (?J, Lesson, Man. d'Orn., II, 232. Ch. griseus (?), Mus. de 

 Paris. For these presumed identifications I am also indebted to Mr. Jerdon. Pre- 

 cisely similar both in summer and winter plumage to the preceding species, but con- 

 siderably inferior in size, with a proportionably smaller and rather differently shaped 

 bill. Length seven inches and a quarter, by fifteen and three quarters in extent; 

 wing five inches, tail an inch and seven eighths, bill to forehead three quarters of an 

 inch, and tarse an inch and a quarter. Irides blackish, as in the other ; legs more or 

 less plumbeous, the toes darker. The young have the scapularies and wing-coverts, 

 and the feathers of the back more slightly, margined with pale fulvous, and a distinct 

 tinge of the same upon the breast. This species is brought in great numbers to the 

 Calcutta bazar throughout the season, but neither it nor the preceding one can be ob- 

 tained in summer garb before May. 



P. 199. Timalia Horsfieldi, Jardine and Selby, is identical with T. hypoleuca, 

 Franklin, which latter appellation holds precedence. I understand that both this and 

 T. hyperythra, Franklin, have recently been figured by M. Guerin in his Magasin de 

 Zoologie. The former constitutes Mr. Hodgson's genus Chrysomma. 



Mirafra Assamensis is not the species assigned doubtfully to M. Javanica by Mr. 

 Jerdon ; and allied to the latter are two or three in Southern India which I shall leave 

 that gentleman to describe. One, the Aggun of the South (M. cantillans, Jerdon, 

 M. S.J, I have also obtained near Calcutta. It is a particularly fine songster. 



P. 201. The species assigned by me to Alauda gulgula, F rankling and A. gracilis, 

 Nobis, had also better remain in abeyance for the present. The former, however, may 

 be here styled A. Gangetica, vide description, loc. cit.. 



P. 202, and also p. 587. For Carbo pygmceus read Phalacrocorax Javanicus, 

 which is common in the Hoogly. Indeed, Ph. Africanus (stated by Lesson to inhabit 

 India) would seem to be no other. 



P. 203. Two species are confounded under the description of Muscipeta atriceps, 

 Nobis; the supposed female being my M. plumosa, p. 791. The former is nearly 

 allied to M. Borbonica, which the Society has since received from the Isle of France, 

 but is larger. 



P. 204. The Prinia pileata, Nobis, must be referred to Timalia gularis, Hors- 

 field, vide p. 794. 



P. 455. Genus Manis. 1 have recently had the various Pangolin skins in the 

 Society's Museum relaxed and mounted, when it appeared that the observations of 

 Lieut. Tickell and others respecting the mode of progression of M. brachyura do not 



