1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 579 



6. Suthora nipalensis, Hodgson. Nepal, Darjeeling. 



7. S. fulvifrons, Hodgson. Length five inches, of which the tail 

 measures two and a half, its outermost feathers an inch and a quarter 

 less; wing two inches and one-eighth; bill to forehead (through the 

 feathers) a quarter of an inch; and tarse three-quarters. Upper parts 

 light rufescent-brown, inclining to fulvous on the forehead, throat, and 

 breast, with a broad pale duskyish streak along each sinciput ; secon- 

 daries, and base of caudals, broadly margined with bright chesnut-ful- 

 vous; the belly and flanks albescent-greyish. Bill pale, dusky along 

 ridge of upper mandible ; and legs light brown. From Nepal. 



In XII, 443, I expressed an opinion that the division Heteromorpha, 

 Hodgson, should merge in Paradoxornis ; but I have since seen Mr. 

 Gould's figure of P. Jiavirostris in the Icones Avium, which induces 

 me now to follow Mr. Hodgson's arrangement, and also to refer No. 4 

 of the above list to his genus Heteromorpha. 



The Indian Nuthatches and Tree-creepers may be enumerated as 

 follow : — 



1. Sitta formosa, nobis, J. A. S. XII, 938, 1007. Darjeeling. Beak 

 scarcely at all compressed, and tapering almost evenly from the base, 

 as seen from above. 



2. S. himalayana, Jardine and Selby, ///. Orn. 1st series, pi. 

 CLX1V ; to which I suspect must be referred S. cinnamoventris, nobis, 

 J. A. S. XI, 459, though it does not quite accord either with the 

 figure or description. The sexes differ as in S. castaneoventris, 

 but the under-parts of the male are not quite so dark as in the cor- 

 responding sex of that species; and the deep, rufous-brown colouring 

 extends up to the throat, and in some specimens leaves little white on 

 the chin, but the sides of the throat over the jaw are always white, as 

 equally in «S. castaneoventris. S. himalayana is stated to have the tail 

 black, except its middle pair of feathers, the rest having " the basal 

 half [^probably a mistake] of the inner webs white ; on the outer 

 feather there is an oblique white bar, and the second has a round 

 white spot on the tip of the inner web." In S. cinnamoventris, the 

 outermost tail-feather has an oblique white bar towards the middle of 

 its external web, and a larger white spot near the extremity of its 

 inner web ; and the next two feathers have each a successively smaller 

 spot on their inner webs ; the bill also is much longer than that of 

 S. himalayana is represented in the figure, and is black with more or 



