1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 567 



India generally, extending eastward to Tipperah and A'rracan, and 

 thence southward to Penang and even Malacca.* 



4. P. monticolus, (M'Clelland and Horsfield), Proc. Zool Soc. 1839, 

 p. 160. Said to differ from the last by having "a scarlet ring about the 

 eye, but no tuft beneath this organ." Kossia mountains, Assam. It 

 rather requires verification. 



5. P. crocorrhous, Strickland, An. and Mag. N. H. 1844, p. 412: 

 Muscicapa hcemorrhoussa, Var. B., Gm. ; Turdus hcemorrhous, apud 

 Horsfield. Java. 



6. P. bimaculatus, (Horsf.), Lin. Tr. XIII, 147. Java. 



7. P. goiavier, (Scopoli): Muscicapa psidii, Gm. ; Turdus analis, 

 Horsfield. Malay countries generally. 



8. P. leucotis, (Gould), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 6. Common in 

 Scinde, and I am informed also in Guzerat. It is likewise enumerated 

 in a list of birds " collected in the north-western provinces of the 

 Bengal presidency, in north latitude 29° to 31°, and east longitude 77° 

 to 88°", and consisting chiefly of inhabitants of the plains, but with a 

 few from the Himalaya, in P. Z. S. 1842, p. 92.f 



9. P. leucogenys, (Gray), Hardwicke's 111. Ind. Zool. Common in 

 the Himalaya, and in Kashmir. 



10. P. flavirictus, Strickland, An. and Mag. N. H. 1844, p. 413 : 

 Tricophorus virescens, Tern., apud Jerdon. Southern India. 



11. P. plumosus, nobis. Length about seven inches, of wing three 

 and a quarter, and tail three inches ; bill to gape three-quarters of an 

 inch ; and tarse the same. This bird is remarkable for the extra- 

 ordinary density and copiousness of its rump plumage, which has 

 suggested the name bestowed on it. Colour of the upper parts darkish 

 olive-brown, shaded with dull green, the wings and tail margined with 

 brighter green ; coronal feathers rounded and scale-like, of a cinerascent 

 hue, slightly margined laterally with greenish : under-parts pale brown, 

 lightest on the throat, and the lower tail-coverts slightly ochreous. Bill 



* 1 have not actually compared Malayan with Bengal specimens, but have an im- 

 pression that the crimson ocular tuft is considerably less developed in the former. 



f In this list are several names, which, I suspect, require to be corrected : viz. " Hir- 

 undo ripariaV probably H. sinensis; " Oriolus galbula," probably O. kundoo ; 

 " Malacocercus striatus," probably M. terricolor ; " Ianthocincla leucocephala," 

 doubtless Garrulax leucolophos ; " Megalurus palustris, Sykes," probably Pellorni- 

 um rufieeps, which is Megalurus ruficeps, Sykes ; and M Centropus sirkee," pro- 

 bably Taccocua infuscata, nobis. 



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