1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. • 307 



2. C. melanoptera, nobis, n. s. Nearly allied to the next, but larger, 

 and of a deep ash-grey colour, paler on the belly, and passing to white 

 on the lower tail-coverts; the wings wholly black; and tail the same, 

 with large white tips to its outermost and penultimate feathers, and 

 successively smaller ones to the rest. Bill and feet black. Length 

 about eight inches, of wing four and a quarter, and tail four inches, 

 its outermost feather an inch shorter than the middle ones. Discover- 

 ed in Arracan (with so many other new species) by Capt. Phayre. 



3. C. Sykesi, (Strickland), Ann. Mag. N. H. 1844, p. 36 : Cebl. 

 fimbriatus apud Jerdon, and probably C. canus apud Sykes (the 

 young) : Eastern Thrush of Latham. Adults of either sex of this 

 species have the body light pure ashy; the head, neck, and breast, 

 deep black; the lower breast and abdomen pale grey, passing gra- 

 dually to white on the lower tail-coverts, &c. The young (or appa- 

 rently one year old birds) have the head grey, like the back; the 

 throat and the entire under-parts whitish, with dusky cross-rays, and 

 the rump also rayed less distinctly. It is about equally common in 

 Lower Bengal with Cfimbriata, perhaps rather less so; I have never 

 seen it from the Himalaya, or the countries eastward, and it seems 

 to be tolerably common in Southern India. 



A Ceblepyris cinereus, Lesson, from Java, is described in the ' Zoo- 

 logie du Voyage de M. Belanger/ of which I have taken the follow- 

 ing rough note. Length eight inches. Bill robust, hooked, toothed, 

 dilate at borders ; wings short, scarcely passing the croup. Tail of 

 mean length, rounded as in the others. Colour ash-grey above, be- 

 neath whitish-grey ; a little brown spot before the eyes; wings brown, 

 the primaries slightly edged with white, and secondaries tipped with 

 pale grey. Approaches the Shrikes in form of wings, tail, and tarse ; 

 and the Artami and Drongos in its beak. 



There is also a Cebl. culminatus, A. Hay, from Malacca, described 

 in the Madr. Journ. No. XXXI, 157. 



The following species, from the Isle of France, I presume to be Tanagra 

 capensis, Gm., referred to Campephaga in the Diet. Class. The beak 

 is much stouter than in the Indian species, also straighter, and more 

 strongly toothed at tip, but not very strongly hooked : the tip of the 

 lower mandible curves upward, to lock within the notch of the upper one. 

 Length of an adult female nearly nine inches ; wing four and an eighth ; 



