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three and three-quarters (but the first primaries were growing in the 

 specimen), and of tail three and a half: bill to forehead a little exceed- 

 ing half an inch, and to gape three-quarters ; tarse also three-quarters 

 of an inch. General colour bright olive-green, becoming yellowish- 

 green and more vivid on the rump and margins of the primaries, and 

 inclining also to yellow on the belly and more decidedly on the lower 

 tail-coverts: forehead and chin pale ashy; the nape, with the sides 

 and front of the neck, somewhat darker, passing into blackish on 

 the throat ; and the crown black, its feathers lengthened to form a 

 crest nearly an inch high : tail-feathers largely tipped with blackish. 

 Bill yellow ; and legs brown. Hab Cherra Poonjee, or the hill ranges 

 bordering on Sylhet to the northward. 



HemixoSy Hodgson, n. g. " Eill to gape rather longer than the head, 

 [moderately slender,] inclining to arch, with terminal notch, and erect, 

 entire, trenchant tomice. Tongue cartilaginous, and simply bifid. Rictus 

 bristled. Nares lunate, lateral, shaded above by a small unarched nude 

 membrane, which is set over by small nareal bristles. Legs and feet very 

 short, but stout : the tarse strong and smooth. Toes short, very un- 

 equal, depressed ; the fores basally connected, the outer one as far as the 

 joint, the inner less so. Nails strong, acute, and highly curved. Wings 

 medial, round, acuminate; the fifth quill longest: the first two much, 

 and the two next slightly, gradated. Tail ample, very firm, even, but 

 -^ inclining 4o furcation. 



" H. flavala, mihi. Length eight inches and a third ; expanse twelve 

 inches ; closed wing four inches ; tail three and a half; bill to gape an 

 inch; tarse (to sole) thirteen-sixteenths ; central toe nine-sixteenths; 

 outer seven-sixteenths ; inner three-eighths ; hind five-sixteenths. 

 Weight 1 oz." General colour ashy, with dusky wings and tail, the former 

 having the secondaries and tertiaries, with their great range of coverts, 

 broadly margined with bright greenish-yellow, and the tail a little 

 tinged with the same externally : throat and lower tail-coverts white ; 

 the belly greyish-white, and the breast of a paler ash-colour than the 

 back : lores and streak from base of lower mandible black ; the ear- 

 coverts brown, and crown dusky-greyish, the coronal feathers lengthen- 

 ed and pointed, as in Hypsipetes. Bill black, and legs plumbeous. 



44 This type," remarks Mr. Hodgson, "is compounded of the charac- 

 ters of Hypsipetes and of those of the Bulbouls, between which it claims 

 a place. Its manners, like its form, are intermediate. It feeds mostly 



