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longer, than in Tribura (v. Pseudoluscinia ?) luteoventris. The bill 

 is shaped somewhat as in Cinclus, but is proportionately shorter, 

 with the peculiarities of that form less developed ; the nareal apertures 

 are quite basal ; and the gape smooth, as in the preceding : feet also 

 similar, but the claws slightly longer and straighter. 



D. thoracica, nobis. Length five inches, of which the tail measures 

 two inches, its outermost feathers seven-eighths of an inch less ; wing 

 two and one- sixteenth ; bill to frontal feathers three-eighths of an 

 inch, and to gape above half an inch ; tarse three-quarters, and hind 

 claw five-sixths of an inch. Upper-parts dark olive-brown, with a 

 faint ruddy tinge on the lower part of the back ; throat and above the 

 lores white, passing into ashy on the breast, which, with the fore-neck, 

 is marked with largish round dusky spots ; lower portion and sides of 

 the breast plain brownish-ashy, the medial portion of the belly white, 

 and the flanks fulvescent-brown ; under tail-coverts dark olive-brown, 

 with whitish tips : bill dusky, and legs and claws pale. Inhabits Nepal. 



Horornis, Hodgson, is placed by that naturalist as a subgenus of his 

 Tribura f Pseudoluscinia ? Bonap.), having "the bill feebler, and the 

 tarse sometimes distinctly scutellated : wings and tail as in Nivicola" 

 (note to p. 585). — I have a hasty note of the second species below de- 

 scribed, (from a specimen taken to England by Mr. Hodgson,) as being 

 11 intermediate to Prinia and Tesia, having the bill slender and com- 

 pressed, much as in Locustella, with the rictorial hairs scarcely percep- 

 tible ; tail rather short, and much graduated ; wings the same, the first 

 quill but half the length of the second, the fourth and fifth equal and 

 longest, a little exceeding the third and sixth." 



B.flaviventris, Hodgson. ( Non vidi.J "Above olive-green, below 

 pale yellow ; chin and line over eye albescent ; legs fleshy ; bill 

 dusky-brown. Length four inches and three-eighths ; bill half an inch ; 

 tail an inch and five-eighths ; wing under two inches ; tarse thirteen- 

 sixteenths ; central toe and nail eleven-sixteenths ; hind nine-sixteenths. 

 Hab. the Cachar, or juxta- Himalayan region of the hills." 



H. fortipes, Hodgson. " Bill slender, with notch and inclination 

 distinct ; rictal hairs distinct. Tail broad, soft, fan-shaped. Legs 

 strong, and frequently smooth. Wing as in Tribura, more or less 

 pointed, and not absolutely rounded as in Horeites. Above olive- 

 brown ; below white : the flanks, vent, and eye-brows, yellowish. 

 Legs and bill fleshy-white ; the bill more sordid. Length four inches 



