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and pi. VIII.*] Length six inches and a half, bill five-eighths of an 

 inch ; tail two inches and seven- eighths ; wing two and three-quarters ; 

 tarse an inch and one- sixteenth ; central toe and nail eleven- sixteenths ; 

 the hind three- sixteenths. Head with a full crest of sordid gamboge ; 

 body above slaty smeared with green ; below gamboge more or less di- 



* In the same work are figured and described, or only described : — 



1. As Chloropsis curvirostris, Swainson, (" Menag.,") the Phyllornis Hardwickii, 

 v. Chi. Hardwickii, Jardine and Selby, v. chrysog aster, McClelland and Horsfield, v. 

 cyanopterus, Hodgson, v. auriventris, Guerin, (Magasin de Zoologie, 1840, Ois.,\>l. 

 17). 



2. As Cypselus (Chcstura, Hodgson,) nudipes, Hodgson, J. A. S., V. 779, the 

 Pallene macropterus, v. Ch. macroptera, Swainson, Zool. III., v. leuconotus, Mag. 

 de Zool., 1840, Ois. pi. 20. (Is this identical with the Australian species— P. cauda- 

 cula, (Lath.), to which, according to Mr. Strickland (Ann. and Mag. N. H. 1843, p. 

 337), must be referred " Chcetura australis, Stephens, Hirundo fusca, Stephens, and 

 Ch. macroptera, Swainson" ? 



3. As Francolinus Hardwickii, Gray, the Perdix lunulosa, Valenciennes, v. Fr. 

 nivosus, Mag. de Zool., 1840, Ois. pi. 18; if indeed this be not also the Cingalese, 

 Perdix bicalcaratus of Pennant, which I greatly suspect. The form, to which P. 

 spadiceus also belongs, I regard as constituting a very distinct genus— Galloperdix, 

 Nobis. 



4. As Crateropus Lafresnayii, Ad. Deless., the Garrulax cachinnans, or Cr. 

 cachinnans, Jerdon, Madr. Jl. 1839, p. 255, with figure; having been, it would ap- 

 pear, also named Delesserti by M. de la Fresnaye. 



5. As Cr. griseiceps, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 101, the Cr. Delesserti, Jerdon, Madr. 

 Jl. 1839, p. 256. 



6. As Muscicapa rufula, de la Fresnaye, the Saxicola nigrorufa, Jerdon, Madr. 

 Jl. 1839, p. 366. 



7. As Pica bottanensis, Ad. Deless., Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 400, the P. megaloptera, 

 Blyth, J. A. S., XI, 193 (1842). 



And the following new species are given : — 



1. Turdus (Merula) nigropileus, de la Fresnaye ; a Neilgherry species distinct 

 from T. simillimus, Jerdon, and which has since been likewise obtained by that natu- 

 ralist : allusion being made in the description to the two Himalayan Blackbirds, T. 

 pcecilopterus, Vig., and T. collaris, Sorel, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 2, which latter is 

 doubtless the T. albocinctus, Royle, III. Him. Rot. (1839), termed albicollis on that 

 author's plate, which name belongs to another species. 



2. Prinia Jiaviventris, (Ad. Deless.,) described as an Orthotomus, and previously 

 in Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 101. 



In the class of mammalia, the Gaour, Ros gaurus, v. Ribos cavifrons, Hodgson, is 

 figured as Ribos frontalis, (Lambert,) which name, however, refers to the Gayal of the 

 trans- Brahmapooter territories, R. gavceus of Colebrooke, v. R. sylhetanus, F. Cuv., 

 which is a very different animal : and the Wild Dog of the Neilgherries is erroneously 

 referred to Canis primcevus, Hodgson, which latter I shewed to M. Delessert, and he 

 at once acknowledged their distinctness, as may be likewise seen by comparing M. 

 Delessert's figure with that of the Himalayan animal in As. Res. xviii, pt. ii, 236. The 

 only other Indian quadruped figured is a small Neilgherry squirrel, Sc. Delesserti, 

 Gervais, which is nearly allied to Sc. McClellandii common at Darjeeling, and Sc, 

 insignis of Java. — E. B. 



