932 Mr. Blylh's Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



and from Swan River ( ! ), Papilio Machaon (very small, as are all the 

 Himalayan examples which 1 have seen), and some of the more rare 

 Himalayan species, several of which I have made out from the ex- 

 cellent work of M. Boisduval in the Suites a Buffon. 



The new species of birds from Darjeeling are as follow : — 

 Crypsirina (Vieillot) altirostris, Nobis: genus Phrenotrix, Hors- 

 field ; Dendrocitta, Gould. Nearly allied to the Assamese D. frontalis 

 (McClelland and Horsfield), with which it would appear to form a 

 particular section of the group, characterized by having the bill 

 shorter, but much more compressed and deeper, than in the others ; — 

 being in fact absolutely that of Glaucopis, so far as I can remember 

 the latter. Length fifteen inches, of which the tail measures nine 

 inches and a quarter, the penultimate feather being two inches 

 shorter, and the outermost six inches and a half shorter; of wing 

 five inches and one-eighth; of bill to forehead (through the fea- 

 thers) an inch, and five-eighths of an inch deep ; tarse an inch : 

 claws remarkably long, that of the hind-toe five-eighths of an inch, 

 measured in a straight line. The head (including the vertex, but 

 not the occiput); ear-coverts, throat, and fore-neck (to the breast), are 

 deep black ; wings and tail also black, the coverts of the former, ex- 

 cepting those of the primaries, pure ash-grey ; the occiput and re- 

 mainder of the neck, together with the breast and belly, whit- 

 ish-grey; the back, scapularies, upper and lower tail-coverts, vent 

 and flanks, bright ferruginous (as in Cr. vagabunda); tibial feathers 

 mingled grey and rufous: bill and feet black. Young similar in 

 markings, but all the colours, excepting the black and ferruginous, 

 much duller ; the plumage of flimsy texture. 



This is the sixth species of its genus now ascertained to inhabit 

 India or its immediate confines, besides the Phrenotrix temia, Hors- 

 field, which Dr. Heifer asserts is met with in the Tenasserim provinces. 

 The others are as follow : — 



1. Cr. vagabunda ; Coracias vagabunda, Latham : figured in Gould's 

 Century. Everywhere abundant, I believe, throughout .India, and in 

 the Tenasserim provinces. 



2. Cr. Sinensis ; Corvus Sinensis, Gmelin : figured in Gould's 

 Century. A mountain species, common on the Himalaya, and Mr. 

 Jerdon thinks that he has observed it in open jungle in the Segoor 



