1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 49 



coverts which show externally not being tipped with yellow, as in the 

 corresponding age of 0. indicus ; but the tertiaries have narrow yellow 

 tips, which also are less developed on the secondaries, and upper- 

 most primaries. Bill longer and much more slender than in 0. indicus, 

 and of a slightly arched form ; its colour fleshy apparently at base, but 

 red for the remainder as in 0. galbula. Length about ten inches, of 

 wing five and three-quarters, and tail three and a half; bill to forehead 

 an inch and a quarter, and tarse seven-eighths. I believe, but am not 

 sure, that the specimen here described is from Central India. There 

 can be no doubt of its distinctness as a species. 



8. 0. kundoo, Sykes (the female) : 0. galbula apud Sykes (the male), 

 and of Franklin's catalogue : 0. aureus, Jerdon's Catal. : and doubtless 

 O. galbuloides of Gould, mentioned in P. Z. «S. 1841, p. 6. This is 

 the Indian 0. galbula, auctorum. It invariably differs from the Euro- 

 pean speeies in having a larger bill, and in the black streak from the 

 bill being continued backward beyond the eye in the males : from the 

 African 0. auratus, Swainson, it differs in the colouring of its wings, 

 which resemble those of 0. galbula. This bird, so very common in the 

 Indian peninsula, and which extends up to the N.W. Himalaya, occurs 

 also in the hilly parts of Bengal, as Rajmahl and Monghyr, and at 

 Midnapore; these hills being off- shoots from the ranges of Central India, 

 and partaking of the fauna of the latter in numerous other instances ; 

 but in the vicinity of Calcutta I have never met with it, nor seen it 

 in any collection from the countries eastward : the Calcutta specimens 

 which, on a former occasion, I referred to 0. galbula (and afterwards 

 termed aureus), proving to be females of 0. indicus. 



9. 0. xanthonotus, Horsfield : 0. leucogaster, Reinwardt : 0. casta- 

 nopterus, nobis, J. A. S. XI, 795, (the young male). Peculiar to the 

 Malay countries. 



Another very distinct group as a genus, which, though less allied to 

 other Meliphagidce than I consider the Orioles to be, yet offers (in at 

 least the majority of its species) those adaptive characters which many 

 would term the essential features of the family, is that of Phyllornis 

 (vel Chloropsis), treated of in XIV, 364 et seq. To what is said there, 

 and before, concerning this group, I shall now only add that the young 

 of Ph. Hardwickii may as well be described, in order perhaps to check 

 its being brought forward as a new species. The plumage is green, 

 more yellowish underneath, the throat pale yellowish, and there is a 



