934 Mr Myth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



Phcenicura super ciliaris, Jerdon (Supplement to Catalogue J, which 

 quite agrees with Mr. Hodgson's description of L. cyana*; and the 

 present species is only distinguishable from that bird, on its upper 

 parts, by a very slight and inconspicuous character ; whilst the lower, 

 being concolorous with the former, but paling a little on the belly, af- 

 fords a very striking contrast with those of C. cyana, wherein they are 

 wholly bright ferruginous with the exception of the lower tail-coverts : 

 the tarsi, also, of our present species are considerably longer, as 

 in my Cinclidium frontale, and of a dark colour : its wings are 

 shorter and rounder than in the other species of Calliope; and tail 

 rather shorter and weak. Length five inches and a quarter, of wing 

 two inches and five-eighths, and tail an inch and three-quarters; bill 

 to forehead (through the feathers) nearly five-eighths of an inch, and 

 typically formed; tarse an inch and a quarter. Colour a full deep 

 cyaneous, or dark greyish-blue, paling on the belly, and relieved by 

 a white superciliary streak, confined to the bases of the feathers and 

 yet shewing conspicuously : bill black ; and legs (in the dry specimen) 

 brownish-dusky. This bird is reported to be a pleasing songster. 



The genus Calliope would accordingly consist of the following five 

 species, all natives of India or the Himalaya, being at most winter 

 visitants in the low country. 



1. C. Lathami, Gould, Icones Avium; Motacilla Qalliope, Pallas; 

 Turdus C, Latham; Accentor (!) C, Temminck. A regular winter 

 visitant in Bengal, and found likewise in Central India : being met 

 with (according to the season) over the greater part of Asia, even in 

 Kamtschatka. It is closely allied to restricted Turdus. 



2. C. pectoralis y Gould, Icones Avium. Has a more graduated tail 

 than in the others, tipped with white, which also extends over the 

 basal half of the tail-feathers, except the middle pair, and on the ex- 

 terior web of the outermost pair : general colour dark ashy, the middle 

 of the belly white, breast, and sides of the throat black, the rest of the 

 throat bright crimson, and a white superciliary streak. Inhabits the 

 Himalaya. 



3. C. cyana ; Larvivora cyana, Hodgson, J. A. S. VI, 102; Phce» 



* The Society has since received a specimen from Mr. Hodgson, shewing the 

 above identification to be correct. 



