448 Additions to the Catalogue of Nepal Birds. £No. 138. 



tarse to sole 1J inch, central toe and nail, 15-16 inches, hind toe and 

 nail 10-14 inches: female smaller, being about 8 inches in total 

 length. 



Habitat, the northern region or Cachar, in under-spots near snows : 

 solitary : insects and gravel in the stomach. 



Remark : a singular bird, having the general structure of a Thrush, 

 but with the wings vastly augmented in size and the bill of a Sylvian. 

 Analogous to Grallincef* 



2. Crateropodince ? Heteromorpha^ Mihi. 



Bill short, stout, compressed, hard, blunt, entire, as high at the base 

 as long, and much concealed by the frontal plumes; ridges great, curv- 

 ed, and broad ; sides flat : tomise even : tips equal and obtuse. 



Nares small, round, remote, having a raised rim, and concealed by 

 incumbent setaceous plumules. Rictus narrow, furnished in both 

 mandibles with slenderish bristles. 



Wings submedial, feeble, bowed, narrow, sixth quill longest; four 

 first much graduated ; first plus half of longest : tertials evanescent. 



Tail largish, graduated, firm ; the separate plumes wedged at their 

 tips. 



Legs and feet very stout : the tarsi elevate, with large scales across 

 front-half, and posteal half smooth and sharp. Digits shortish, flat- 

 tened on soles, basally connected, especially the outer one : the inner 

 fore-toe as long as the outer and stouter; the central not elongated; 

 the hind as long as the lateral fore-toe, stout and depressed. Nails 

 large, moderately bent ; sufficiently acute. 



Plumage very soft and lax. 



Type. H. [Paradoxornis, apud nos, E. B.,] unicolor (new). Through- 

 out of an olive-brown colour, brightest on the fully crested head, and 

 next on the alars and caudal s : bill yellow : legs slaty-grey : iris brown. 



* A specimen in nestling plumage has just been received from Mr. Hodgson, 

 having the head, neck, interscapularies, and under-parts, marked with a pale central 

 line to each feather. The bill of this individual is mutilated, but judging from the 

 rest of its external structure, I agree with Mr. Hodgson in considering this remarkable 

 bird much allied to the true Thrushes. — E. B. 



f If the several new genera herein adverted to can be properly referred to the 

 Crateropodince, that group would seem to contain representatives of all the tribes of 

 Perchers, and perhaps should be broken up to be distributed among all of them. All 

 the Crateropons proper might be referred to the Garruline group, for example. 



