306 ^Notices and Descriptions of various New [No. 172. 



of the propriety of its separation) ; but the back and scapularies appear 

 always to be of a pitchy- brown colour instead of green-glossed black; 

 while the cap of the male is as black as in the other, and in the female 

 is marked by a blackish tinge: the tail, too, is, I think, generally somewhat 

 longer, and the scapularies are often more or less brown, like the back. 

 Inhabits Nepal and about Darjeeling, as also Assam. 



A closely allied diminutive of these is the Muscicapula melanoleuca, 

 nobis, XII, 940 : a species common in the Himalaya and in Arracan, 

 and which the Society has lately received from Java, so that M. Tem- 

 minck has probably named it. By this and other Muscicapulce , the 

 present group would be linked to the various black- billed blue Flycatch- 

 ers ; but I cannot pass conveniently to these just now. 



Lalage, Boie. This genus connects the preceding birds with the Grau- 

 culince. I know but of two species, the L. orientalis Gm., v Turdus 

 striga, Raffles, and Sylvia leucophcea, Vieillot, — and another nearly 

 allied, but without the white supercilium, and shewing less white on 

 the distal half of the wing, from Australia; this I take to be Campe- 

 phaga leucomela of Vigors and Horsfield, Lin. Tr. XV, 215, — those 

 authors describing only a mutilated female. 



Grauculus, Cuv. The G. papuensis, Cuv. (v. Macei, Lesson, and 

 nipalensis, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1837, P- 327,) is a tolerably common 

 bird throughout India, as well as eastward of the Bay. Wing six 

 inches and a half, and tail five and a half. Ceblepyris javensis, 

 Horsfield, is perhaps distinct, as Mr. Strickland writes me word that 

 its wing measures but six inches, and total length ten inches instead 

 of a foot* 



Campephaga, Vieillot : Ceblepyris, Cuv. 



1. C.fimbriata, (Tem.) apud Strickland (in epistold) : Lanius silens, 

 (Tickellt); Volvocivora melaschistos, Hodgson; Grauculus maculosus, 

 M'Clelland and Horsfield; Ceblepyris lugubris, Sundevall ; Blue-grey 

 Thrush of Latham. Tolerably common in Bengal, Nepal, Assam, 

 and in Central India ; but has not hitherto been observed south of 

 Goomsur. 



* Mr. Jerdon remarks of the Indian species — " It appears doubtful if this be 

 the true papuensis — if not, it is perhaps the Gr. Macei of Lesson." Madr. Joum. 

 No. XXXI, p. 122. 



f The South African L. silens of Levaillant is a true Curruca, of which Mr. Strick- 

 land has lately favoured the Society with a fine specimen. 



