942 Mr. Blytlis Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



To these must be approximated Saxicola nigrorufa, Jerdon, Madr. 

 Jl. 1842, p. 189; vel Muscicapa rufula, de la Fresnaye, Ad. Delessert, 

 Souvenirs, &c, pt. ii, 29; which probably will be eventually found to 

 exemplify another of these small natural divisions, intermediate to the 

 last and to the Stonechats.] 



I shall now refer to my former paper on a collection of birds from 

 the same locality (Vol. XL p. 160, et seq.), certain of which, introduc- 

 ed as new, I have since succeeded in identifying with previous descrip- 

 tions, and some of my efforts at monographing various groups I can 

 now render more complete, from having subsequently received acces- 

 sions, more or less considerable, to the number of their comprised 

 species. 



Vol. XI, p. 160. Falco Aldrovandi, v. severus, Horsfield. The 

 Darjeeling male appears to have been rightly assigned to this species ; 

 but the supposed female and young are distinct : and the Neilgherry 

 small Falcon mentioned in a note to p. 162, proved to be F. ves- 

 pertinus v. rvfipes, vide p. p. 881-2.* 



P. 165. Several small Owls are mentioned, of which the Strix scu- 

 tulata, Raffles, Str. hirsuta, Temminck, Str. lugubris, Tickell, and 

 it may be added Ninox Nipalensis, Hodgson, are one and the same. 



P. 166. I have deemed it worth while to publish a figure of the 

 Yellow-backed Honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus, Nobis), which 

 will shew that that species is correctly referred to its genus, of which 

 it was assuredly little suspected that any representative would inhabit 

 the Himalaya. 



P. 168. Cuculus micropterus. In my description of this Cuckoo (J. A. 

 S. XI, 903), I considered certain dark ash-coloured specimens to be 

 merely the old birds of this species, an opinion to which I still adhere. 

 Mr. Hodgson, however, thinks differently, having lately forwarded si- 

 milar examples by the designation C. saturatus. One sent as the 



P.aurantius; 47, P. Mahrattensis ; 48, Dendrophila frontalis, v. Sitta corallina, 

 Hodgson; 49, Buceros Malabaricus verus; 50, correct; 5], probably a species closely 

 allied to Bucco viridis, v. caniceps, of which I have information ; 52, Trogon Mala- 

 baricus ?; 53, Caprimulgus ? ; 54, Macropteryx longipennis ; 55, Carpophaga 



cenea ; 56, Columba meena ; 57, 58, 59, correct ; 60, Parra Indica, immature. 



* The Falco Aldrovandi has recently been described in McClelland's Journal, (1843, 

 page 283,) as F. rufpedoides. F. vespertiims I have lately obtained in this neigh- 

 bourhood. 



