1000 Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



with the barred appearance on the secondaries and tertiaries much 

 exaggerated. The P. squamatus appears to be peculiar to the Hima- 

 laya. 



The following two species appear to be confounded under P. squa- 

 matus in Mr. Jerdon's list : — 



2. P. striolatus, Nobis. Smaller and brighter-coloured than the 

 preceding, with the throat, neck, and breast, marked nearly like the 

 belly, and the caudal bars almost obsolete, except on the middle 

 pair and exterior web of the outermost pair of feathers in some speci- 

 mens. Length about eleven inches, the wing five inches, and middle 

 tail-feathers four inches ; bill to forehead an inch and a quarter. Head 

 and upper-parts like those of P. squamatus, but the colours brighter ; 

 the dark streak from the corners of the mouth inconspicuous, from the 

 black being reduced to a narrow medial line jon each feather; and 

 there is no black mark occupying the upper half of the loral feathers : 

 the entire under-parts are whitish, not suffused ^with green as in the 

 next species, but streaked with dusky green, more or less dark on the 

 breast, and always greenish-black on the belly ; upon the throat and 

 fore-neck the feathers have each a mesial dark line, more or less de- 

 fined, which on those of the breast and sometimes above it widens, 

 and is divided to near the tip of the feather by a central whitish 

 streak, which latter also widens on the belly till the feathers of that 

 part present much the same appearance as those of P. squamatus, 

 only that a mesial dark line within the white is a great deal more 

 prevalent, and the general aspect of the markings is somewhat less 

 clearly defined than in that species : the sides of the neck are greenish 

 and more obscurely streaked, and the nape and interscapularies are in 

 some specimens indistinctly marked like the feathers of the breast : 

 bill yellowish, the ridge of the upper and tips of both mandibles 

 dusky. Female analogous to that of the preceding species. The 

 Society possess specimens from the Himalaya and Central India, and 

 have received this together with the last species from Mr. Hodgson, 

 who failed to discriminate them.* 



3. P. viridanus, Nobis. Size about that of the last species, and 

 much resembling it, but the neck, breast, and under-parts very deeply 

 tinged with green, having a strong fulvous cast, and the tail longer, 



* More recently, however, Mr. Hodgson has distinguished these two species. 



