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and freer at base ; hind stout, depressed, equal to the inner fore-toe. 

 Nails compressed, deep, acute, Parian, but less suited for creeping. 



Plumage soft and lax. 



Type. T. Nipalensis (see * India Review' [for 1838, p. 32], Habitat) 

 the Cachar, in small flocks; frequenting brushwood and tall grass: 

 manners of Parus> of which it has the entire aspect ; but besides its 

 truncated bill it differs by rounder wings and larger and less arboreal 

 legs and feet. Is greatly allied by its strange bill to the last. 



4. Ampelidce, Prosorinia, olim Cochoa (amended). 



Bill moderate, Thrush-like, but much more depressed and greatly 

 excided at base by nareal and gular cavities, and both tips armed. 



Nares large, ovoid, free, lateral, and typical. Rictus wide, with 

 short curling bristles which partly tend over the nostrils. 



Wings medial, firm ; Turdine, but rather less acuminate, with the 

 fourth primary longest. Tail firm, rounded. 



Legs and feet simple, ambulatory, Turdine, but the tarsi shorter 

 though not less strong, and thumbs longer. 



Types. Pr. viridis et purpurea (see Journ. As. Soc. V, 359.) 



Remark : with the size, aspect, and manners of Thrushes, these birds 

 are typically Ampeline in structure, and should stand next to Casma- 

 rynchus. Both species are amply crested, and have subnude orbits.* 



* The Society has received several specimens from Darjeeling approaching closely 

 to the description of Pr. purpurea, but they would seem to be less bright in colour, 

 certainly than the figure given, and have not the tail-feathers similarly pointed. Vide 

 my description of a Darjeeling male, Vol. XI, p. 182. — Cur. As. Soc. A female has 

 more recently been received by the Society from Mr. Hodgson, and they are the same. 

 Pr. viridis I have not seen.— Ibid. 



