1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 23 



Corvidte. The Indian true Corvi, though so particularly numerous 

 in individuals, are referable to but three species (that I know of), and 

 of these the Raven (C. corax, Lin.) is confined to the north-western 

 Himalaya and its vicinity, being unknown at Darjeeling, and equally so 



Todiramphus occipitalis nobis. Nearly allied to T. collaris and T. sacer, but es- 

 pecially distinguished by its strongly marked rufescent supercilia, which are continued 

 quite round the occiput, forming a narrow band ; beneath this is a broader black band, 

 continued from the ear-coverts; and then a still broader fulvescent-white collar, as in 

 the allied species : immediately bordering the last, the back is more infuscated than 

 in the other, and the crown is likewise very dark, with some rufous lateral edges to 

 the frontal feathers : under-parts white, a little tinged with fulvescent, but less so than 

 in T. sacer ; and the back, wings, and tail, are much, as in T. collaris : bill black 

 above, and the tip of the lower mandible ; the rest of the latter white: legs brownish. 

 Length of wing four inches and a quarter ; tail three inches ; and bill to gape two and a 

 quarter. Young rather smaller, with dusky margins to the pectoral feathers ; and the 

 beak shorter, with a white and hooked extreme tip. It may be remarked that in T. 

 collaris and T. sacer, there is a much less developed white occipital band concealed 

 beneath the surface of the feathers, but which shews conspicuously when the coronal 

 plumes are a little raised. 



The following two species of Palceornis appear also to be quite new. 



P. caniceps, nobis. This is a very strongly marked species ; but I can now 

 merely indicate rather than describe it, as but one specimen was obtained (alive, from 

 a native), which had lost its tail, and the wing-primaries were also mutilated. The 

 size approaches that of P. Alexandri, which at once distinguishes it from all other 

 known species of the group. General colour vivid yellowish-green, with the winglet 

 and base of the secondaries indigo-blue, and the medial portion of the seconda- 

 ries inclining to emerald-green; primaries black, the longest of them tinged with 

 indigo towards their base: cap grey; a broad frontal band continued to the eyes, 

 (this mark corresponding with that of P. pondicerianus, but very much broader,) 

 and likewise a broad black moustache, with some black feathers also on the throat : 

 above this moustache, between it and the frontal band, the feathers are of the same 

 grey as those of the crown. The beak has the upper mandible coral-red, with a white 

 tip ; and the lower mandible black : the form of the bill is both narrower and less 

 deep than in P. Alexandria and angulates above towards the base. 



P. erythrogenys, nobis. Allied to P. malaccensis ; but readily distinguished by 

 the blossom-red hue of the cheeks not being continued round the nape, and by its 

 larger size, and differently shaped tail. Length of wing seven inches and a quarter, 

 and of tail ten inches; the middle pair of tail-feathers exceeding the next by three 

 inches and three-quarters. General colour bright-green, more yellowish below, 

 and tinged in the male with hoary greyish-blue on the nape and back ; winglet 

 and primaries blue, the latter margined and broadly tipped with green; middle tail- 

 feathers also blue, margined with green for the basal half, and the rest of the tail- 

 feathers chiefly or wholly green above, and all of them dull yellow below; the cap is 

 not of a distinct emerald-green, as in P. malaccensis, but uniformly coloured with the 

 back (save where the latter is tinged with grey in the male) ; there is a well defined 

 narrowish black streak from the nostril to the eye, and the same black moustache as in 

 P. malaccensis ; and the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts, (only,) are blossom-red. Upper 

 mandible coral-red, with a white tip ; the lower one black. The female merely differs 



