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and tail three and a half: bill to gape above an inch ; and tarse an inch. 

 Upper-parts wholly deep cinereous, darker on the crown, and paler on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lores, and a streak beyond the eye, 

 blackish-cinereous, surmounted by a slight whitish supercilium ; 

 wings blackish, the feathers margined with grey, and two or three of 

 the primaries slightly with whitish ; winglet and coverts of the prima- 

 ries wholly blackish, and anterior two-thirds of the wing white un- 

 derneath ; the throat and lower tail-coverts are white, the breast light 

 ashy, with faint traces of cross-rays in the specimen ; belly slightly 

 fulvescent white ; and the tail is black, its feathers successively more 

 deeply tipped with white to the outermost; form of the tail slightly 

 graduated, its outermost feathers being half an inch shorter than the 

 middle ones ; bill and feet dull black. A young male differs in having 

 its upper-parts tinged with rufous-brown, deepening considerably on 

 the rump ; breast and belly also with ferruginous patches ; tibial fea- 

 thers the same ; and I am informed that the old male has the under- 

 pays light ferruginous. Gmelin describes his Tanagra capensis to be 

 yellowish, and such is likely to be the case with a still younger spe- 

 cimen than the male here noticed. 



In XI, 463, I described a species from the island of Luzon, by the 

 name Ceblepyris ccerulescens. This is a very interesting bird, from 

 its close affinity for Irena, which genus I had considered to approxi- 

 mate to the Grauculince, previously to remarking the affinity of this par- 

 ticular species. In the female and immature plumage of Irena, the 

 resemblance to the Graucalince is seen more especially. Campephaga 

 ccerulescens is probably allied to C. cinerea, (Lesson), just noticed; 

 having a larger and stouter bill than the Indian species, more as in 

 Irena, only that the tip is more abruptly hooked and emarginated. 

 Size and general characters of Irena, but the rump-feathers spinous 

 to the feel, and the tail sub-quadrate, except that its outermost fea- 

 thers are three- eighths of an inch shorter than the penultimate, which 

 latter are also very slightly shorter than the rest. This bird might 

 be regarded as the type of a new division, to which C. cinerea should 

 also probably be referred. 



Irena, Horsfield. A curious distinction between the Indian and 

 Malayan /. puella, auctorum, has been pointed out by Lord Arthur 

 Hay ; to whom we are indebted for the discrimination of numerous 



