1008 Mr. Blyth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



cyaneous, the tertiaries having small fulvescent tips like the wing- 

 coverts. Length about six inches and three-quarters, of wing three 

 and one-eighth, and tail two and three-quarters ; bill to gape thirteen- 

 sixteenths of an inch, and tarse five-eighths of an inch. Occurs at 

 Darjeeling. 



P. 942, note to preceding page. No. 51 of the birds of Capt. 

 Tickell's list. — Since this was printed, Mr. Jerdon has written me word, 

 among other matters, — " I have also another Barbet sent from the 

 west coast, very like viridis, but distinct, and evidently the Bucco 

 lineatus of Tickell's list." 



Note to p. 952. Mr. Hodgson informs me that the word leucopophlus 

 alluded to, was, as I suggested, a copyist's mistake for leucolophos / 

 and I perceive that there is an " Ianthocincla leucocephala, Gould," 

 mentioned in a list of Bengal birds published in the ' Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History' for June, 1842, p. 477, which I also 

 suspect is intended for leucolophos. 



P. 961. Pitta gigas, apud nos. In a very interesting collection just 

 received from Arracan, there are two fine specimens of this Pitta, 

 which I now think must be distinct from P. gigas } in which case the 

 species might be termed P. cyanea. These birds have the crown 

 brown, with a black medial stripe, the occiput bright red, and throat 

 whitish, having a black stripe on each side ; the rest of the upper-parts 

 are entirely of a fine blue, and the lower pale blue, sullied with green 

 on the breast, and mottled with black as described. Length about 

 nine inches. 



P. 966 Phylloscopus magnirostris, Nobis. The same collection has 

 yielded a second specimen of this new species. 



P. 969 et seq. Nectarinia, Dicozum, &c. Three species of this group 

 are also sent, of which two appear to be new ; viz. 



Nectarinia Phayrei, Nobis. This beautiful species pertains to the 

 group exemplified by the Indian N Zeylonica and N. minima, and 

 nearly agrees with Sir W. Jardine's description of N. Hasseltii, Tern., 

 in the Nat. Libr., but has the " mantle," or at least the interscapulary 

 region, deep black. Length about three inches and three-quarters, 

 of wing an inch and seven-eighths, and tail an inch and a quarter ; bill 

 to forehead half an inch. Crown brilliant golden -green, the feathers 

 of soft and disunited texture ; cheeks, sides and back of the neck, inter- 



