950 Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. QNo. 143. 



14. G. [riificollis ;] Corvus pubduya, Buchanan Hamilton. Near- 

 ly allied to the last, which it resembles in the semi-lunar mark on 

 the sides of the neck. Length about nine inches and a half. General 

 colour olivaceous-brown, darkening on the tail, and passing into ash- 

 colour on the crown and occiput: forehead, ear- coverts (including 

 the orbital region), throat, and fore-neck, black : a crescent-like mark of 

 rufous on the sides of the neck, and under tail-coverts the same. Irides 

 red. Bill black; and legs dusky. Described from a beautiful and 

 highly finished drawing, sketched evidently from life, among those of 

 the late Dr. Buchanan Hamilton. Habitat not stated.* 



15. G. variegatus ; Cincl. variegatum, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 

 55, and figured in Gould's Century, PI. XVI. Nepal. 



16. G. affinis, Hodgson. M. S. Nearly allied both to the last, and 

 (judging from description) to the next species. Length about ten 

 inches, of wing four inches, and middle tail-feathers four inches and 

 three-quarters, the outermost an inch and a half shorter ; bill to fore- 

 head (through the feathers) an inch, and to gape an inch and one 

 eighth ; tarse an inch and a half. General colour rufescent olive- 

 brown, more or less distinctly mottled on the back with paler tips 

 to the feathers; the rump dingy greenish, and upper tail-coverts 

 rufous: sides of the head, lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts, black, oc- 

 casionally suffusing the crown ; chin the same, and a broad moustachial 

 spot, with another behind the ears, white: breast rufous-brown, the 

 feathers laterally edged with grey ; belly uniform fainter rufous-brown, 

 and lower tail-coverts darker: the wings have a jetty-black spot, 

 formed by the coverts of the primaries; and the winglet, with the ex- 

 terior margins of the primaries, is pearl-grey ; those of the secon- 

 daries and tertiaries partly are greenish-yellow, much as in G. chry- 

 sopterus, the remainder of the tertiaries and tips of the secondaries 

 being slaty-grey ; anterior portion of the wing coloured like the back ; 

 and basal two-thirds of the tail dull greenish-orange, the rest slaty- 

 grey : bill black, and feet pale brown. Inhabits Nepal. 



* This would seem to be the Ianthocincla rufaollis of Jardine and Selby's 2nd 

 series of Illustrations, which I have not seen ; to judge from the following diagnosis 

 sent me by Mr. Jerdon. " I. f route, genis, auriculis, guld, superior e pectoris, nigris ; 

 capite superiore colli griseis ; lateribus colli crissoque rujis : colore colli maculd curvatd 

 extendente ad gulam, corpore alisque olivaceo- griseis, remigibus marginibus griseis ; Cau- 

 da* nigrescente. Hub. Himalayas." 



