1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 1009 



scapularies, and wings, deep black ; tail also black, richly glossed with 

 purple ; scapularies, rump, and upper tail-coverts, brilliant steel-blue ; 

 throat and fore-neck splendid amethystine-purple; breast, and flanks 

 anteriorly, rich dark red; posteriorly, with the vent and under tail- 

 coverts, dull greyish-black: bill and feet black. Inhabits Arracan, 

 and is dedicated to its discoverer Capt. Phayre, the present Senior 

 Assistant to the Commissioner of that province, to whom the Society 

 is indebted for numerous zoological contributions of much interest. 



Dicceum chrysochlore, Nobis. A thick-billed species, devoid of 

 shewy colouring. Length about four inches, of wing two inches and 

 one-eighth, and tail an inch and a quarter; bill to forehead three- 

 eighths of an inch. Upper-parts uniform vivid, but glossless, golden- 

 green, including the tertiaries, the margins of the secondaries, and 

 their coverts ; the rest of the wing, and the tail, dusky black, the latter 

 margined towards its base with the colour of the upper-parts, and the 

 primaries slightly with yellowish -white: entire under-parts slightly 

 yellowish- white, except the lower tail-coverts which are bright yellow; 

 the breast and flanks being streaked with dusky, and a line of the same 

 proceeds from each corner of the lower mandible : inside of the wings 

 chiefly white: bill and feet blackish. Inhabits Arracan. The third 

 species sent is D. erythronotum. 



The discovery of D. chrysochlore enables me, I think, to classify a 

 very curious little bird, (the affinities of which have long puzzled me,) 

 from Nepal, but which I have not now by me for comparison, as Mr, 

 Hodgson took the specimen away with him. The following is, how- 

 ever, the description which I took of it : — 



Pachyglossa, Hodgson, n. g. Bill rather short, and very Swallow- 

 like as viewed from above, but less depressed, with the ridge of the 

 upper mandible obtusely angulated, and the terminal half much com- 

 pressed from the inflection of its tomise; nearly conical as viewed 

 laterally, the outline of the upper mandible curved, and its tip over- 

 hanging that of the lower mandible ; the outline of the lower mandible 

 is almost straight. Nostrils nearly closed by impending membrane, 

 the aperture forming a narrow slit (in the dry specimen). Gape 

 unarmed. The wings are large, having no rudimental first quill, but 

 the three first primaries are subequal, the third rather the longest, and 

 the fourth is a little shorter than the first ; they extend to three-fourths 



