y^z. 



1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 571 



2. Cr. flaveolus, (Gould), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 6. Common in 

 the Himalaya, and in the hill ranges of Assam, Sylhet, and Arracan. 

 An allied South African species is figured by Dr. Andrew Smith, as 

 Tricophorus flaviventris. 



3. Cr. Tickelli, nobis : doubtfully referred to Ixos virescens, Tem., _Jl" c *~~"— — 

 by Capt. Tickell, J. A. S. II, 573, but evidently a distinct species of 

 the present genus, allied to the preceding one. From near Midnapore. 

 ( Non vidi.J 



4. Cr. gularis, (Horsfield), Lin. Trans. XIII, 150. Allied in plu- 

 mage to Cr. flaveolus, but crestless, and the beak remarkable for its 



Vanga-hke, or Lopkocitta-Yike, form, with the tip of the upper man- 

 dible abruptly bent over. Malay countries generally. 



N. B. I may here remark, that the genera Lophocitta, Vanga, and 

 Prionops, form together a peculiar group of Bulbouls, of which the 

 only known oriental species is Lophocitta galericulata, (Cuv.), common 

 near the Straits of Malacca : but the Lanius coronatus, Raffles, Lin. 

 Tr. XIII, 306, would seem to be nearly allied.* The habits of Prio- 

 nops talacoma, as described by Dr. A. Smith, are quite those of the 

 ordinary Bulbouls. 



Spizixos, nobis, n. g. General structure of Pycnonotus, but dif- 

 fering greatly in the shortness and (for a member of this group) 

 extraordinary thickness of the bill, the lateral outline of which 

 approaches that of Conostoma cemodius, Hodgson, J. A. S., X, 856, 

 except that the tip of the upper mandible curves more decidedly down- 

 ward over that of the lower mandible, being also pointed and dis- 

 tinctly notched, with a sinuation corresponding to the notch in the 

 lower mandible : as viewed from above, however, the resemblance to 

 the beak of the Conostoma ceases, for that of the present bird narrows 

 evenly to a point from a tolerably wide base : the ridge of the upper 

 mandible is obtusely angulated, and it is distinctly arched, rising at base 

 where concealed by the feathers of the forehead. Rest as in Pycno- 

 notus, but approaching to Criniger. 



Sp. canifrons, nobis. Length about eight inches, of wing probably 



* Mr. G. It. Gray, I observe, gives, as synonymes of Lophocitta galericulata, the 

 Lanius scapulatus, Licht., L. coronatus, Raffles, and Vanga cristata, Geoff., figured 

 in Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom'; but the figure adverted to has a much flatter bill, 

 which is coloured white, and the primaries are coloured rufous. Mr. G. R. Gray 

 refers Lophocitta to the Jay group, in which I cannot agree with him. — The Society 

 has now received Lanius coronatus, Raffles, which is obviously the female of Loph. 

 galericulata. 



