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Certhiparus, Mihi. [Olim Minla, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 42; 

 changed to Proparus, H., J. A, S., X. 29, which latter name is now 

 transferred to the preceding group.] Bill somewhat lengthened, slen- 

 der, and inclining to arch, but the tip of the upper mandible strongly- 

 notched ; base depressed ; rictus moderate and nearly smooth. Nares 

 large, advanced, tenuirostral ; the aperture lunately lineated by a large 

 and soft incumbent membrane : tongue simple, forked. Wings round, 

 acuminate ; fifth longest, the first and second much, the third and fourth 

 less, gradated. Tail medial or short, and round with ovoid tips, the 

 webs of which are open and harsh. Tarse equal only to mid- toe and 

 nail : toes medial, compressed, very unequal, and basally much con- 

 nected ; the hind very large and alone exceeding the outer fore, but not 

 broad, nor its nail so long as the digit : nails much curved and com- 

 pressed. 



Types ignitinctus and castaniceps, Mihi. 



C. ignitinctus. [Minla ignitincta, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 32; 

 Leiothrix ornata, McClelland and Horsfield, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 

 162.] Head and neck black and white in broad alternate masses; the 

 crown, and a line through the eye from the bill, black ; and a broad 

 superciliary space, with the throat, white : mantle luteous-olive merged 

 [in the male ?] in vinous across the upper back ; body below yellow [or 

 yellowish :] alars and caudals black ; prime alars and caudals margined 

 and tipped crimson; the rest white-edged: legs horn-yellow; bill 

 black above, horn below. Female less in size and duller-hued. Length five 

 inches and a quarter ; bill ten- sixteenths of an inch ; tail two inches and 

 a quarter ; wing two and five- eighths ; tarse thirteen- sixteenths ; central 

 toe and nail three-fourths of an inch; hind ten-sixteenths. [Occurs 

 also in Assam.] 



C. castaniceps. [Minla castaniceps, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838,p.33.] Above 

 olive, with a bright chesnut cap streaked with white ; below lutescent ; 

 ears and moustache black ; centre of alars margined with rusty ; outer 

 primaries with hoary : legs fleshy ; bill dusky-horn. Length five inches ; 

 bill nine- sixteenths of an inch: tail an inch and thirteen- sixteenths ; 

 the wing two and a quarter ; tarse seven- eighths of an inch ; central 

 toe and nail eight- sixteenths, the hind nine-sixteenths of an inch. 

 Somewhat deviates by its straighter bill and shorter narrower tail with 

 wedged tips, but has the quasi-Cevthmn feet with large compressed 



