1843.] Mr. BlytJis Report for- December Meeting, 1842. 955 



edges of each feather ; throat, fore-neck, and breast, pure ashy ; and 

 the rest of the under-parts, from the breast, a pale brownish-carneous, 

 with a patch of golden-yellow on each side of the breast, bordering the 

 grey : wings and tail wholly shining black, except the ferruginous tips 

 before mentioned. The sexual diversity is accordingly considerable, 

 the female having the upper-parts, wings, and middle tail-feathers, 

 green, and only the upper tail-coverts ferruginous, together with 

 the tips of the tail-feathers; and the sides of the head grey, which 

 margins also the feathers of the crown. Some nestling feathers inter- 

 mingled on the crown of one female specimen, show that that part is 

 also green, having slight black edges, in the young bird. 



P. 184. Indian Leiotrichance. A Monograph of this group, by Mr. 

 Hodgson, with additions and annotations by myself, is now awaiting 

 publication. 



Same page. Parus flavocristatus, la Fresnaye, Mag. de Zool. Jan- 

 vier, 1837, apud Horsfield; Ibid, 1838, apud Lesson, Revue Zoologique 

 par la Societe Cuvierienne, 1839, p. 42 : P. sultaneus, Hodgson, Ind. 

 Rev., April, 1837, p. 81. This, and the Melanochlora Sumatrana, 

 Lesson, Rev. Zool. &c, loc. cit., appear now to me to be identical, 

 my description of the latter in XI, 792, referring to the young. 

 I have now before me four specimens from Nepal and four from 

 Singapore ; and there is no difference in the length of the wings and 

 tail, in the size of the bill, nor in any other respect that I can per- 

 ceive, further than that the mode of preparing the Singapore specimens 

 makes them appear considerably smaller. 



Same page. Mr. Hodgson has rightly instituted a genus Alcurus 

 for the species which I described by the name Tricophorus striatus. 



P. 186. Chloropsis Hardwickii is referred to Chi. curvirostris, Swain- 

 son, by M. de la Fresnaye, apud M. Adolphe Delessert, Souvenirs, &c, 

 pt. II, 23, where a figure is given of it: Chi. auriventris, Mag. de 

 Zool., Guerin, 1840, p. 17, may be added to the synonyms collated in 

 loc. cit. 



There are five species of this genus now in the Society's Museum, 

 one of which appears to have been confounded with Chi. aurifrons ; a 

 sixth also inhabits India. 



1. Chi. curvirostris, Swainson, or perhaps Hardwickii has still the 

 priority. This species has always more or less orange-saffron colour 



