46 Notices and Descriptions of various New [No. 169. 



In his " Two centenaries and a quarter of new or little known birds," 

 appended to his volume on ' Menageries/ in the ' Naturalists' Library/ 

 Mr. Swainson has also described an Oriolus Hodgsorti, said to be from 

 Nepal ; but of numerous Nepalese and other Himalayan specimens, I 

 have seen none that could be referred to it. It is stated to resemble 

 0. melanocephalus, except that it is " much smaller, and the tips of the 

 quills are white instead of yellow : middle feathers of the tail yellow, 

 with a black bar nearly across their centre. Total length about seven 

 inches : bill from gape, an inch ; to front, eight-tenths : wings four 

 inches and eight-tenths ; tail beyond, seven-tenths : tarse seven- tenths." 

 This notice may perhaps lead to its recognition. 



3. 0. chinensis, Lin. : 0. cochinchinensis, Brisson; 0. acrorhynchos, 

 Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 97: Coulavan of Buffon. This bird, which 

 is not Indian, is remarkable for its very large and highly carinated beak, 

 which is particularly deep at base, and drawn out to a fine point. 

 Forehead yellow, not extending back beyond the hind-part of the eye : 

 lores, spreading above and below the eye, and forming an occipital patch 

 broader than the yellow of the forehead, deep black ; this does not, 

 however, reach forward quite to the nares : posterior half of the wing, 

 comprising also the winglet and coverts of the primaries, black ; 

 the rest of the wing, or anterior half, bright yellow : tail black, its 

 middle feathers tipped with yellow for three-eighths of an inch, the next 

 for an inch and a half on its outer web, and the outermost for two 

 inches on both webs. Length of wing six inches ; of bill to forehead an 

 inch and a half, or nearly so ; and of tail four inches. Inhabits China 

 and Manilla. 



4. 0. macrourus, nobis. Closely allied to 0. chinensis, from which 

 it is distinguished by its longer tail, rather smaller and less carinated 

 beak (which however is always conspicuously larger than in the next 

 species), and by the greater patch of yellow upon the forehead of 

 the male : another distinction consists in the disposition of the yellow 

 upon the tail, which has scarcely any of this colour at the tips of its 

 middle pair of feathers, while the outermost is in old males wholly 

 yellow, with merely the shaft black towards the base, — some specimens 

 shewing one or two insulated patches of yellow, chiefly at the extreme 

 base of the outer web, — and younger males having the tail coloured more 

 as in the adults of the Chinese species, but still with scarcely a trace 



