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Length (total) seven inches and three-quarters ; of bill nine-sixteenths ; 

 of tail four and seven-eighths; of wing three and seven-sixteenths; of 

 tarsus one and one-eighth ; of central toe and nail seven-eighths ; of 

 hind ditto ditto three-quarters. 



Habitat, the Cachar : dwells in thick brushwood : frequently alights 

 on the ground, but seems to feed aloft on bugs and other hard insects 

 of trees : in small flocks : not noisy. 



Remark : greatly allied to Paradoxornis, also to our Temnoris and 

 Conostoma [J. A. S. Vol. X, p. 856] : differs from the first in the 

 smooth level, unarmed and equal tops and tomiae of the bill.* 



3. Temnoris, olim Suthora (amended). 



Bill very short and stout, as high and nearly as wide as long, with 

 broad, greatly curved ridges and subtumid sides: tomiae even: tips 

 equal and truncate: base much and softly plumed. Rictus smooth. 

 Nares small, round, hidden by a soft frontal zone. 



Wings short, rounded, much graduated, yet firm, and tending to a 

 point : 6th primary longest ; 5th and 7th hardly less ; the two first 

 much, and the two next less, graduated; 1st half the length of longest. 

 Tail longish, much graduated, simple and feeble. 



Tarsi strong, elevate, smooth. Toes short, flattish below ; unequal : 

 the exterior fore longer and basally connected, the inner fore less, 



* I have considerable doubts whether, on actual comparison of specimens (especial- 

 ly if recent), this form will prove to be separable from Paradoxornis. The P.Jlavi- 

 rostris, Gould, (apud Horsfield,) was obtained by Dr. McClelland in Assam, and was 

 described by him, under the supposition that it was new, as Bathyrhynchus breviros- 

 tris in the ' India Review' for 1838, p. 513, and a rough figure given of it. In that 

 description it is stated that the mandibles " meet in an obtuse point in front without a 

 hook;" and in my P. ruficeps {J. A. S. XI, 177), which in other respects essentially 

 accords with the generic diagnosis of Mr. Hodgson's Heteromorpha, the impending of 

 the upper mandible (so far as can be made out from the dry specimen) is in the most 

 trifling possible degree, which, from recollection, I think is also the case in P.Jfavi- 

 rostris. Mr. Hodgson, at page 563 of the same volume of the ' India Review,' identi- 

 fied McClelland's Bathyrhynchus with his own Suthora (since named by him 

 Temnoris), and even suspected that his typical species, or Nipalensis, might be the 

 same as Dr. McClelland's brevirostris : but the description and figure which are now 

 furnished by Mr. Hodgson of his Temnoris Nipalensis indicate the very inferior size 

 of the latter species, to say nothing of other distinctions, amounting, however, at most, 

 in my opinion, to subgeneric. We have, accordingly, four species now ascertained of 

 this remarkable group, of which three are probably new to Ornithologists in Europe. 

 The diminutive Temnoris has recently been received by the Society from Darjeeling. 

 — Cur. As. Soc. — Mr. Hodgson has just forwarded a specimen of his Heteromorpha, 

 and I consider it to be a true Paradoxornis.— Ibid. 



