1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 573 



on pulpy berries, but likewise takes soft and imperfect insects. It does 

 not sing, nor is caged ; and it seems to be wholly confined to the hills, 

 being unknown below. The sexes arealike in colouring, but the male 

 is rather the larger bird. The stomach is muscular, and of consider- 

 ably unequal thickness in its outer coat ; the inner being tough and striate. 

 Intestinal canal eight inches and a half, the cceca very small and rudi- 

 mentary. Contents of stomach commonly berries, rarely soft and im- 

 perfect insects, and also some perfect and hard ones chiefly in winter.'' 

 (Hodgson's MSS.) It appears to be very common along the sub-Hi- 

 malayan ranges, extending to those of Assam, Sylhet, and Arracan. 



lole, nobis, J. A. S. XIII, 386. This distinct form, I am now 

 satisfied, falls under the Bulboul group, being allied to the preceding, 

 and to Hypsipetes. The coronal feathers are pointed, as in both ; and 

 the beak is that of Hypsipetes, shortened and widened, and thus de- 

 viating in the Flycatcher direction ; the whole form being also short- 

 ened, or as in an ordinary Bulboul.* 



/. olivacea> nobis, J. A. S. XIII, 386. Common at Malacca. Fine 

 specimens attain a length of seven inches and a half, wing three and a 

 half, and tail three and a quarter. 



/. virescens, nobis. Length about six inches and a half, of wing 

 three inches, and tail the same ; bill to gape seven-eighths of an inch, 

 and tarse eleven-sixteenths. Colour olive-green above, paler and more 

 yellowish below, the throat inclining to albescent, and the lower tail- 

 coverts tinged with ochreous, as is also the tail : a slight shade of the 

 same prevails upon the crown, Back, and wings. Bill dusky above, pale 

 below ; and feet light brown. Younger specimens have the throat more 

 yellowish, and the coronal feathers are less pointed and distinct. Com- 

 mon in Arracan. 



/. cinerea, A. Hay. For the loan of an example of this fine species 

 I am indebted to Lord Arthur Hay. It has the Hypsipetes character 

 of the coronal feathers more developed thau in either of the other?. 

 Length about seven inches, of wing three and three-quarters, and tail 

 three and a quarter ; bill to gape seven-eighths, and tarse three- 

 quarters of an inch. Upper parts cinereous-brown, the forehead and 



* This species will have been named by M. Temminek, as also my Tephrodornis 

 grisola, J. A. S. XII, 180, Phoenicura leucoptera, XI 1, 962, and Muscicapula 

 melanoleuca, (Hodg.), XII, 940; as all of these have now been received by the Society 

 from Java. 



