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little blue mingled with the yellowish on the moustaches : a trace of 

 blue also on the shoulder of the wing, and upon the outer primaries 

 and outermost tail-feathers.* 



The Phyllornis group conducts to the Bulbouls, treated of in XIV, 

 566 et seq. : and the affinity of this distinct family for that of the Meli- 

 phagidce is, I think, undeniable. I have little now to add elucidative 

 of a group so lately under review ; but may remark, that Lord A. Hay 

 considers the Pycnonotus hcemorrhous of the Upper Provinces to be dis- 

 tinct from that of S. India, and proposes the name intermedins for the 

 former. There is this much difference, that it would be generally easy 

 to pronounce whether a specimen was from Northern or Southern 

 India, the former having the colours generally better defined, especially 

 the pale margins to the feathers of the upper-parts, and the tail also 

 is commonly longer : but looking to a series of these birds, from Goom- 

 soor, Agra, and Arracan, I do not see that they can be defined apart. Of 

 P. leucogenys, Capt. Boys informs me, that it is common down the Indus 

 from Buhawulpore ; and that he has lately obtained it near Ferozepore. 

 A P. rufocaudatus has recently been described by Mr. Eyton, An. 

 and Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 228, which must be put as a synonyme of 

 Criniger gularis (Horsf.), J. A. S., XIV, 571. Mr. Eyton also des- 

 cribes an Ixos metallicus, which would seem to be allied, except in 

 size, to Brachypodius melanocephalus, XIV, 576. The Turdus indicus, Gm., 

 as represented in Buffon's figure, of which a copy has been obligingly 

 sent me by Mr. Jerdon, would certainly appear to be a very different 

 species from Criniger ? ictericus, Strickland, which Mr. Jerdon had re- 

 ferred to T. indicus (as noticed in XIV, 570). Lastly, the name Ixodia, 

 nobis, XIV, 577, has been forestalled in Botany; as Ixodes (as I first had 

 it) had been previously applied to a genus of Spiders ; so I shall now take 

 refuge in Ixidia, which I trust has remained hitherto unattached. + 



Among our late acquisitions from the Nicobars, I must not omit to 

 mention several specimens of Ixocincla virescens, nobis, XIV, 575 ; and 

 of all ages, from youth to maturity. The species is quite distinct from 



* The ' Blue-chinned Thrush' of Latham refers to Phyllornis Jerdoni ; and C'hlo- 

 ropsis gampsorhynchus (mispelt ccesmarhynchos), apud Tickell, should have been 

 assigned to the same : my originally mistaking this bird for the female of another spe- 

 cies, occasioned me to give it as a synonyme of the latter. 



f Latham's ' Hooded Thrush' refers to Pycnonotus leucogenys ; his Turdus capen- 

 sis, Ind. var., probably to P.flavirictus; his T. cafer, from India, to P. bengalensis; 

 and his ' Tufted Thrush' to P. melanocephalus. 



