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others ; and a great naked space surrounding the eyes ; the legs and 

 claws also are large and strong. Length of bill to gape, an inch and 

 three-quarters, that of Ps. occipitalis barely exceeding an inch and a 

 half; and its depth and strength also considerably greater. Inhabits the 

 Ya-ma-dong mountains, separating Arracan from Pegu. 



4. Ps. albicapillus, nobis. This is evidently distinct, though I only 

 know it in its immature garb, which differs from that of Ps. occipitalis 

 in having the entire cap white ; the extreme frontal feathers, and those 

 impending the nostrils, being alone black. From the neighbourhood of 

 Simla. The Chinese species would seem to be intermediate to this and 

 Ps. occipitalis* 



5. Ps. flavirostris, nobis. General plumage of a much duller colour 

 than in the others ; the bill of the recent specimen bright yellow, 

 instead of deep coral-red ; and the white of the occiput reduced to a 

 narrowish transverse band, with a broad collar of black below it, sur- 

 rounding the hind- neck, and never any white tips to the feathers imme- 

 diately above it ; legs and toes small and slender. This is the most 

 distinct from the rest of all the species here indicated ; and it is the 

 first which I distinguished from Ps, occipitalis, though I waited to 

 obtain the young of the latter before attempting to describe it as a 

 separate race. It is the common species of Darjeeling, and the only 

 one I have seen from that locality ; but I have now seen many speci- 

 mens from thence, all true to their distinctive characters. Upon shewing 

 the three Himalayan races to Mr. Hodgson, (Ps. albicapillus, Ps. occi- 

 pitalis, and Ps. flavirostris ,) that gentleman informed me that he had 

 long ago distinguished them, and that he had exhibited coloured draw- 

 ings of the heads of each at a meeting of the Zoological Society in 

 London. It is probable that naturalists in Europe will not at once be 

 prepared to accept the distinctions that have been here indicated, but 

 I am content to await their future decree, when they shall have obtain- 

 ed the requisite data to judge from; as in the matter also of the 

 Hoonuman Monkeys, (XIII, 470,) concerning which Mr. Gray, I per- 

 ceive, regards as varieties merely of the same species, the very distinct 



* Lord A. Hay writes me word, that he has recently obtained this white-capped 

 species at Simla: it being the only specimen of the genus which his lordship did there 

 meet with; though Ps. occipitalis abounds at Mussoorie, and as Capt. Hutton informs 

 me, is very terrene in its habits, feeding almost entirely on the ground. 



