1010 Mr. Blyitis Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



of the length of the tail, which latter is rather short. Tarse short, but 

 nearly equal to the middle toe with its claw: the toes formed for 

 perching, the inner shorter than the outer toe ; and claws rather short, 

 moderately curved, and much compressed. 



P. melanozantha, Hodgson. Length about four inches and a half, of 

 wing two and seven-eighths, and tail an inch and a half; bill to 

 frontal plumes five-sixteenths of an inch, and tarse half an inch. Upper- 

 parts dusky-cinereous, tinged with dull olive-green on the head, and 

 partially elsewhere ; upper tail-coverts of the latter hue : lower parts 

 paler, the throat white, passing down the centre of the fore-neck and 

 breast ; belly and lower tail coverts bright yellow ; axiilaries, and 

 much of the inside of the wings, white; the outermost tail-feather 

 has a large subterminal white spot on its inner web, and the next a 

 similar but smaller spot: bill blackish, except the base of the lower 

 mandible, which is yellow ; and feet apparently have been greenish. 

 Inhabits Nepal. 



One or more of the following species will most probably be found 

 to range in, or near, the present genus. J, Pipra squalida, Burton, 

 P. Z. S. 1836, p. 113; — 2, Parisoma vireoides, Jerdon, vel Frin- 

 gilla agilis of Tickell's list, which I expect to receive in a few days ; 

 and 3, Pardalotus pipra of Lesson's Manuel, from the Himalaya, the 

 description of which I have not seen, and which may prove identical 

 either with Pipra squalida, which also is from the Himalaya, or with 

 Mr. Hodgson's bird here described.* 



Among other interesting species forwarded in the present collection 

 from Arracan, I may just notice Semnopithecus obscurus of Reid, 

 which is known to be common in the vicinity of Singapore, and should 

 therefore be the Tenasserim S. maw us of Heifer ; — Tupaia Java- 

 nica,\ fine specimens (the genus Gymnura having been previously met 

 with in the same province) ; — the Picus canente, Lesson, which 



* Upon consideration, the hard-billed Dicoeum group, comprising Myzanthe and 

 Pachyglossa (?), appears very distinct from the soft-billed Nectarinia group, com- 

 prehending Arachijtothera and Anthreptes, which latter subgenus might, I think, be 

 very properly abandoned, as founded on insufficient characters. 



f Mr. Hodgson, to whom I exhibited a specimen of this animal, had never met with 

 the genus in Nepal, nor was it known to his experienced shikaree, to whom 1 also 

 shewed it ; but Capt. Tickell assures me, that he distinctly recognises the genus as 

 inhabiting Central India! 



