954 Mr. Blytfis Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



ear-coverts ; forehead deep reddish-brown, and throat tinged with the 

 same : back and rump a rich and less rufous brown than the forehead, 

 the rufous much increasing in intensity on the medial part of the 

 wings, especially on the basal portion of the primaries and on the 

 coverts of the secondaries ; the coverts of the primaries and inner webs 

 of the winglet-feathers are black ; primaries having their inner webs 

 dusky, and the narrow outer webs of the three first albescent-grey 

 without markings ; the terminal half and successively more of the other 

 primaries being beautifully barred with black on a pale rufescent-ashy 

 ground, and the secondaries and tertiaries with narrower black bars on 

 a more rufous ground, this colour however again weakening on the 

 exposed tertiaries : tail somewhat dark ruddy-brown, all but its middle 

 pair of feathers banded with weak dusky, and passing into the latter 

 towards the tips, which are white, successively decreasing in quantity 

 to the middle pair; underneath, the transverse bars are only seen 

 towards the tips of the tail-feathers, becoming there very distinct, and 

 ending in dusky-black, which contrasts with the white extreme tips. 

 Under-parts much paler than the back, but softly tinted, and tinged 

 with the predominating rufous hue. Bill light horny ; and legs pale 

 brown. The colours of this species recall to mind those of the Wax- 

 wings (Bomby cilia), and are equally delicate. In the barred mark- 

 ings of its wings, the character of the crest, and other details of 

 plumage, it manifests considerable affinity for Ixops Nipalensis ; the 

 feathers of which are however much less delicate and silky. Inhabits 

 the vicinity of Darjeeling. 



P. 181. My genus Cinclidium proves to be less allied to Peliornium 

 than I had anticipated; and I now supply a figure of the species (C. 

 fro?itale, Nobis), upon which it is founded. The bird is reported to 

 be a fine songster, heard chiefly in the evening. 



P. 183. Pteruthius rufiventcr, Nobis. I described this species from 

 a female example, and have now the pleasure of adding a notice of the 

 plumage of the male. Length eight inches, of wing from bend three 

 inches and five-eighths, and of tail three inches and a half, its outer- 

 most feathers an inch and a quarter shorter. Back and upper tail- 

 coverts wholly deep ferruginous, as also the tips of the secondaries, of 

 the longest tertiary, and of all the tail-feathers : head and nape, lores, 

 ear-coverts, and infra-orbital region, deep black, glossed along the 



