1 844.]| ® n ^ ie Leiolrichane Birds of the Subhemalayos, 935 



Subgenera ? 



Fringilliparus, Mihi. [_Mesia, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 34; and 

 since Philocalyx, H., /. A. S., X. 29.] Bill longer, wings longer [cer- 

 tainly not in proportion, nor even quite so long] , not bowed, more 

 acuminate, with but four primaries graduated, the two next being equal 

 and longest. Tail medial, broad, firm, even, with the tips of the feathers 

 nearly squared. [N. B. With several specimens both of this and the pre- 

 ceding type before me, I can perceive no character whatever that should 

 entitle them to separation, and do not even recognise the distinctions of 

 form indicated by Mr. Hodgson, their chief diversity consisting in the 

 shape of the tail, which in the present species is scarcely truncated, 

 and has the outermost feathers a little shorter than the rest.] 



Type, F. argentauris, Mihi. [Mesia argentauris, Hodg., Ind. Rev. 1838, 

 p. 88.] Body slaty, paler below, and smeared green above ; [in new 

 plumage, tinged with green on the upper parts, the nape dark golden- 

 fulvous, throat and breast bright gamboge having a cast of red, and 

 under-parts deeply tinged with yellow :] cap black, enveloping the sil- 

 very ears : [feathers at] base of bill yellow, and the outer margin of 

 primaries and lateral caudals the same : upper and lower tail- coverts 

 and base of wings [i. e. a large patch at the base of the primaries and 

 secondaries,] sanguine : legs and bill pale fleshy-yellow. Female with 

 the tail-coverts yellow Qfading to fulvous or tawny] . Length seven in- 

 ches to seven and a quarter ; of bill three-quarters of an inch ; wing 

 three and one-sixteenth ; tail two and three-quarters to three inches ; 

 tarse an inch and one-sixteenth ; central toe and nail thirteen- six- 

 teenths ; hind- toe ten- sixteenths. 



Ioropus, Mihi. [Siva, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 88 ; and since He- 

 miparus, Ibid, J. A. S.,X. 29.] Bill various, more slender and Meru- 

 line, or shorter and more Parian ; wings short ; feet as in Zosterops 

 or Iora, with short anteal toes, but tarse high as in the last. Tail more 

 or less elongated, and gradated from sides and centre as in Parus ; 

 broad, firm, and obtusely tipped, or narrow and frail and wedge-tipped. 



Types, I. strigula, cyanouroptera, and nipalensis. 



I.strigula; [Siva strigula, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 89; and 

 figured as Muscicapa (Siva, Hodg.,) strigula by M. Adolphe Delessert,in 

 the 2d. or Zoological part of his Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans VInde, p. 24, 



