1843.] Mr. Blyth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. 985 



their outer webs dull red to near the tip : bill dusky-horn, and legs 

 apparently have been yellowish-white. Inhabits Nepal. 



To another nectar-feeding family — the Meliphagidce, I refer the 

 genus Zosterops, which is most extensively represented in Australia, 

 where this family is so largely developed. One Indian species — Z. 

 Maderaspatanus, would appear to be tolerably common in most parts 

 of the country, from Nepal to Ceylon, and is numerous also to the east- 

 ward of the Bay of Bengal, but I have not yet obtained it in the 

 vicinity of Calcutta. A species from the Mauritius, which I refer to 

 Motacilla Madagascariensis, Gmelin, has the bill longer and distinctly 

 incurved, and the tongue long and dichotomously subdivided at its 

 extremity, so as to form a tolerably large brush, as usual (if not con- 

 stant), among the Meliphagidce. To this family, the genus Chloropsis 

 (p. 955, et seq., ante,) is generally referred, and Mr. Hodgson inclines 

 to place with it his Heterornis, (olim Cutia), and even his Ixops 

 (vide p. 948, ante), but Heterornis at least I prefer to range near the 

 Timalice. 



Returning now, after so long a digression, to the catalogue of Dar- 

 jeeling birds, I have to rectify, at 



Page 192, JAnota saturata, Nobis. This is identical with Mr. 

 Hodgson's Carduelis Nipalensis, As. Res. XIX, 157, but now typify- 

 ing his division Procarduelis. Of true Carduelis, there are two 

 species upon the Himalaya allied to the European Goldfinch, — viz. 

 C caniceps, Vigors, figured in Gould's Century ; and C. Burtoni, 

 Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 90; and one belonging to the Siskin group, — 

 the C. spinoid.es, Vigors, which is also figured in Gould's Century. 



P. 193. Pica megaloptera, Nobis, was previously described by M. 

 Adolphe Delessert, in the Revue Zoologique par la Societe Cuvierenne, 

 1840, p. 400, and again in his Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans I'Inde, 

 pt. II, 30, by the name P. Bottanensis. The Society has lately 

 procured a specimen of P. vulgaris shot on the Chilian Andes; and 

 another common Indian bird from Peru, the Ibis falcinellus. I have 

 reason to believe that Pica Bottanensis is the species of Magpie so 

 abundant in Afghanistan : but a specimen brought from Chusan by 

 Dr. Cantor was veritable P. vulgaris. 



P. 194 Ampeliceps coronatus. This bird has lost the corneous 

 sheathing of its bill, but the bone was blackened, and the deception is 



