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of the Flycatcher form ; they also have not the brilliant ccerulean spot 

 on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group. 



1. C. rubeculoides ; Phcenicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 

 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson. Himalaya, and visits the 

 neighbourhood of Calcutta during the cold season, where I have ob- 

 tained several specimens; but I have never seen it from the Indian 

 peninsula. 



2. C, banyumas ; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, 

 Temminck ; M. aurea f Lev.,* which name would hold precedence ; 

 M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat- Libr., the female. Southern India and 

 Malay countries. 



3. C. Tickellice, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tern., apud Tickell, J. A. S. 

 II. 574. Of a more greyish blue than the preceding species on the 

 upper-parts, brightening on the forehead, shoulders of the wings, and 

 upper tail- coverts; throat and breast light ferruginous, the belly albes- 

 cent, and under tail-coverts pure white; the rufescent medial portion 

 of the throat much broader than in the preceding species. Length 

 five inches and three-quarters, of wing two inches and three-quarters, 

 and tail two inches and a half; bill to gape eleven-sixteenths of an 

 inch, and tarse five-eighths of an inch. Bill blackish ; legs pale. 

 Inhabits Central India.t 



* I have somewhere seen this identified with M. cantatrix. 



f Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobi?,. Vide Addenda to Appendix of present Report. I 

 annex identifications of most of Capt. Tickell's other species, described in the same 

 paper. 



No. 1, Hyptiopus lophotes ; 2, Circus ceruginosus ; 3, C. melanoleucos, young; 4, 

 a good species ; 5, Ketupa Leschenaultii ; 6, Strix iongimembris (?), Jerdon ; 7, Athene 

 radiatus, (Tickell), — erythropterus, Gould, — perlineatus, Hodgson; 8, Ninox 

 scutulatus (Raffles), v. hirsutus (Tern.); 9, Ceblepyris melaschistos ; 10, Trico- 

 phorus virescens, Jerdon, v. Ixos Psidii, apud nos, p. 181* ante; 11, Dicrurus 

 ccerulescens ; 12, Tephrodornis super ciliosus; 13, Brachypus melanocephalus of 

 Hardwicke and Gray, vide J, A. S. XI, 792; 14, Cometes krishna ; 15, Muscicapa 

 picata ; 16, Pericrocotus princeps; 17, Cyornis Tickellice, Nobis, supra; 18, 19, 

 the names refer to the same, Muscicapa cozrulea> Vieillot; 20, ? ; 21, Pericroco- 

 tus per egrinus ; 22, Saxicola caprata (?J; 23, Copsychus saularis ; 24, C. mac- 

 rourus, — Kittacincla of Gould ; 25, Cyanecula Suecica ; 26, Calliope Lathami; 27, 



probably Mixornis (Hodgson) chloris, vide XI, 794 ; 28, ? ; 29, Prinia macroura; 



30, Sylvia Indica, apud Jerdon; 31, ?; 32, Thamnobia fulicata ; 33, lora 



typhia ; 34, Geocichla citrina ; 35, a good species ; 36, Oriolus Hodgsonii, Sw., 

 young male; 37, Nectarinia Goalpariensis ; 38, Dicozum Tickellice, Nobis; 39, 

 Chloropsis ccesmarhynchos, vide p. 956; 40, probably Emberiza fucosa, J. A. S. 

 XI, 601; 41, Spermestes leuconotus; 42, Parisoma vireoides of Jerdon's list; 43, 

 Pyrgita concolor ? ditto; 44, Pyrgita flavicollis ; 45, Picus Goensis, foem.; 46, 



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