948 Mr. Blyth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



made it look rather too large, from the hardness of the back-outline in 

 particular, the feet are coarse and ill-drawn, and the wing from bend 

 should be three-eighths of an inch longer, the addition being made in 

 front. This species occurs at Darjeeling. 



P. 178, et seq. Genus Garrulax, Lesson; Crateropus, Swainson ; 

 Ianthocincla, Gould ; Cinclosoma (in part), Vigors, Hodgson. During 

 the short time that has elapsed since I published a synopsis of the 

 species of this genus then known to me, the Society's Museum has 

 been greatly enriched by a splendid donation from Mr. Hodgson, 

 which comprised most of the species described by that naturalist, and 

 brought the number of those contained in the Society's collection to 

 fifteen, exclusive of Nipalensis, which Mr. Hodgson has since classed 

 in his genus Alcopus (olim Sibia), vide J. A. S. VIII, 38, but now 

 founds upon it his genus Ixops. The Society has since also received 

 the Neilgherry G. cachinnans from Mr. Jerdon, and a new species 

 from Capt. Phayre, Commissioner of Arracan. By some oversight, I 

 omitted on that occasion to include the G. setafer, Hodgson ; and now 

 that this gentleman has supplied the Society with specimens of the 

 bird so named by him, I find that a Bootan species in the museum 

 which I had doubtfully identified with it, though nearly allied, is distinct 

 from it, besides which are other new species comprised in the follow- 

 ing conspectus of the oriental members of this group, with which I am 

 at present acquainted. f 



1 . G. leucolophos ; Corvus leucolophos, Gmelin : figured in Gould's 

 Century, PI. XVIII. Himalaya. 



2. G. Belangeri, Lesson, Zoologie du Voyage de M. Belanger, 

 p. 258, with coloured figure : Ianthocincla leucolophos ?, Var., Nobis, 

 J. A. S., X, 924. Common in the Tenasserim provinces, and procured 

 by M. Belanger in Pegu. 



3. G. rufifrons, Lesson, Ibid., with also a coloured figure. Java. 



4. G. perspicillatus, G. R. Gray ; Turdus perspicillatus, Gmelin, 

 — Shaw's Zoology, X. 325 : le Merle de la Chine, Buffon. China.* 



5. G. auritus ; Corvus auritus, Latham ; Spreo auritus, Lesson, 

 Traite\: Crateropus teucogenys, Nobis, J. A. S. XI, 180; le petit 



* Mr. G. R. Gray appears to consider this as identical with G. Belangeri, but 

 Shaw's description of it would hardly seem to apply to the latter. 



t Spreo of Lesson is founded on Turdus bicolor of Gmelin, apud G. R. Gray. 



