1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 597 



have the Malacocercus caudatus, (Dumeril, v. Timalia chatarrhaa, 

 Franklin, and Megalurus isabellinus, Swainson), and the Suya criniger 

 of Hodgson, connecting the present group respectively with the long- 

 tailed Malacocerci, and with the Prinice. Indeed, I hardly consider 

 Suya to be separable from Prinia. 



The genus Malacocercus treated of in XIII, 367 et seq., has since 

 been further developed by Mr. Jerdon, in the second No. of his ' Illus- 

 trations of Indian Ornithology'; and this naturalist now considers that 

 the species which he formerly referred to Somervillei of Sykes, and 

 which I followed him in so doing in XIII, 368, is distinct from Col. 

 Sykes's bird ; for which reason he has given it the name malabaricus. 



The proposed genus Orthorhinus, nobis, J. A. S. XIII, 371, 

 proves to have been founded on a young example of a new species of 

 Pomatorhinus, and must therefore be cancelled : but the species will 

 stand as 



Pomatorhinus hypoleucos, nobis. Adults, received from Tipperah 

 and Arracan, merely differ from the young before described in the 

 firmer texture of their feathers, and in the elongation and curva- 

 ture of the beak, as in the other species of the genus to which it 

 is now referred : but the beak is less curved and less compressed 

 than in the majority of the species, in which respect, as in size and 

 colouring, P. erythrogenys makes the nearest approach to it. Colour 

 above olive-brown, a little cinerascent on the head, and a rufous 

 streak commences behind the eye and expands into a patch on the 

 sides of the neck beyond the ear-coverts : lower-parts white, mar- 

 gined with ashy on the sides of the breast ; and the flanks wholly 

 ashy, with a tinge of brown : wings and tail a little rufescent, the 

 lower tail- coverts more deeply so. Bill dusky, with more or less of its 

 terminal portion horny-white ; and the legs appear to have been greenish. 

 Length ten to eleven inches, of wing four and a quarter, and tail four 

 inches ; bill to gape one and three-quarters ; and tarse one and a half. 

 P. ferruginosuSy nobis. This beautiful species measures about nine 

 inches long, of which the tail is four and a quarter ; wing three and 

 a quarter ; bill to forehead an inch to one and one-eighth ; and tarse 

 an inch and three- eighths. Colour greenish olive- brown above, the 



lurus palustris, but am informed that it keeps much more to the reeds than seems to 

 be the case with Cinclorhamphus australis, though it, in like manner, mounts singing 

 into the air. 



