1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 583 



Tribura luteovenlris, Hodgson. Nearly allied in form to the pre- 

 ceding, but the tail much more graduated (as in Locustella Rati), and 

 the bill rather more compressed, with the ridge of the upper mandible 

 more decidedly raised and acute towards its base. I suspect that it 

 pertains to the division Pseudoluscinia, Bonap. Length about five 

 inches and a half, of which the middle tail-feathers measure two and a 

 half, the outermost being an inch shorter ; wing two inches ; bill 

 to gape nine-sixteenths of an inch, the latter quite smooth (as in 

 Locustella) ; tarse three-quarters of an inch ; claws fine, and but 

 moderately curved, the hind-claw measuring half an inch. Upper 

 parts uniform olive-brown ; the lower paler, except the flanks, which 

 are also a little rufescent ; throat aud middle of the breast and belly 

 inclining to whitish ; bill dark horn-coloured above, and pale below ; 

 and legs light brown. Inhabits the Kachar region of Nepal. 



Mr. Hodgson gives the following generic characters of his Tribura. 

 " Bill equal to the head (measured to gape), straight, compressed, at 

 base high as broad, with the ridge raised and keeled between the oval 

 nares : tip of upper mandible very slightly inclined, but distinctly 

 (though minutely) notched : rictus quite smooth. Wings short and 

 rounded, the two first quills conspicuously and equally gradated, the 

 three next subequal and longest. Tail somewhat elongated and gra- 

 dated equally throughout, rather cuneated than fan-shaped. Tarse 

 medial, stout [or rather, of moderate strength], smooth, longer than 

 the middle toe and nail : toes and nails slender and simple, compressed 

 and elongate ; inner lateral with its nail exceeding the outer ; the hind 

 toe least, and not broad. Feet of terrene model/' — being much as in 

 the British Locustelle, which bird 1 have seen on the ground, among 

 furze bushes, I think with an ambulatory gait. 



Dumeticola, nobis, n. g. A specimen sent by Mr. Hodgson with the 

 MS. name Salicaria affinis, would fall under M. Temminck's division 

 of Bee-fins aquatiques, but would scarcely have been referred by Mr. 

 Selby to his Salicaria (now dismembered, and its component species 

 assigned to previously established divisions). Nearly allied to the 

 last species, it departs further from the Salicaria model, and approaches 

 more to that of Prinia, and especially of Horeites (hereinafter describ- 

 ed) : having comparatively full and puffy plumage, and a less cuneated 

 tail, inasmuch as the three middle pairs of feathers graduate but 

 slightly ; the first primary is also rather shorter, and the second rather 



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