936 Mr. Blyttis Report for December Meeting, 1842. QNo. 143. 



superciliary streak, throat, and belly, white ; the under tail-coverts 

 tinged with rufous : sides of the throat and breast, black, the middle 

 of the latter marked with oval white spots, smaller in front : wings 

 dusky, the coverts slightly tipped with albescent; and tail the same, 

 all but its middle feathers, passing gradually into whitish towards their 

 extremity. Bill black ; and legs dusky. The tail is much graduated, 

 having its outermost feathers two inches shorter than the middle ones. 

 Inhabits the Neilgherries. 



4. Rh. Javanica ; Muscicapa Javanica, Sparrman ; Platyrhynchus 

 perspicillatus, Vieillot. Malay countries generally. 



5. Rh. nigritorquis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 97. Philippine 

 Islands : perhaps identical with last.* 



6. Rh. hypoxantha, Nobis, ante. Darjeeling.j 



Columba ( Macropygia, Swainson,) \_tusalia, Hodgson.] Male fif- 

 teen inches and upwards, of which the tail measures seven inches 

 and a half, its outermost feathers four inches and a half shorter, 

 and the rest evenly graduating ; wing seven inches and five-eighths, 

 the third primary rather the longest, and the second a little 

 exceeding the fourth ; bill to feathers scarcely five-eighths of an 

 inch, and tarse seven-eighths. Colour of the upper-parts dusky-black, 

 each feather narrowly but conspicuously margined, and more or less 

 barred, with deep rufous; the forehead and cheeks whitish-grey, 

 tinged with lilach : throat whitish : crown gradually more ashy ; and 

 occiput, nape, and hind-neck, successively more broadly margined 

 with brilliantly glossed extremities to the feathers, of a changeable 

 hue from green to purplish-red, upon a dark ashy ground ; sides of 

 the breast the same, its medial portion more narrowly thus edged : 

 belly slightly tinged with pale buff, deeper on the lower tail-coverts : 

 greater wing-feathers wholly dusky ; and tail the same, its four medial 

 feathers somewhat obscurely crossed with numerous rufous bars, the 

 outermost pair greyish-white for the basal two-thirds of their exterior 

 web, and the rest of the tail — except the middle feathers — ashy at 



* Add Rh. collaris, Lesson, Rev. Zool. far la Soc. Cuv. 1839, p. 104. " Corpore 

 nigro ; collo antice niveo ; superciliis albis ; caudce pennis albo marginatis aut ter- 

 minatis. Hab. Timor." This description does not well distinguish it from Rh.fus- 

 coventris. 



f Mr. Hodgson Las lately sent a specimen also of this bird, which he separates 

 from Rhipidura by the name Chelidorynx, an arrangement which 1 shall now adopt. 



