854 Drafts for a Fauna Indica. [No. 168. 



I have heard the notes of both this and the next species, which I think 

 are absolutely similar: they bear some resemblance to the human 

 voice in singing, and are highly musical in tone ; being considerably 

 prolonged and modulated, but always terminating abruptly ; and every 

 time the stave is repeated exactly as before, so that it soon becomes 

 wearisome to an European ear. 



Tit. cantillans : Vinago cantillans, nobis, Journ. As. Soc. XII, 166: 

 Col. aromatica, var. A, Latham. Size and proportions of last, but the green 

 colour replaced by a delicate pearl- grey, with a slight tinge of green 

 here and there, more especially on the under- parts : forehead and throat 

 whitish ; the crown and breast of the male tinged with ruddy, or 

 weak maronne ; and the mantle marked as in TV. sphenura, with 

 deeper maronne : a slight yellowish-white outer edging to the greater 

 wing-coverts. Irides, as usual in this genus, or having a crimson ring 

 encircling a violet one : bill and bare skin around the eye, glaucous- 

 blue : and legs and toes, reddish-carneous. The female I have not 

 yet seen. Length, thirteen by twenty-one inches ; closed wing, seven 

 inches. 



This species occurs in the N. W. Himalaya, as about Simla ; and 

 is, I believe, rare in Nepal. I kept one alive for some time, that was 

 stated to have been brought from Agra ; whither it had no doubt been 

 carried from the Hills. Can it be a variety only of the last ? 



Tr. apicauda, Hodgson (mentioned in Mr. G. R. Gray's Catalogue 

 of the Ornithological Specimens in the British Museum). Nearly allied 

 to Tr. oxyura of the Malay countries, from which it is at once dis- 

 tinguished by the pale yellow margins of its great wing-coverts, 

 forming two narrow longitudinally oblique bars on the wing. General 

 colour green, more yellowish towards the tail, and on the under- parts ; 

 and tinged in the male with russet on the crown and breast : primaries, 

 dusky-black : tail with its middle feathers greatly prolonged beyond 

 the rest, and their elongated portion much attenuated ; its colour, grey 

 with a medial blackish band, obsolete on the middle pair of feathers, 

 which at base are yellowish-green. Bill, evidently glaucous- bluish ; 

 and legs red. Length of wing, six inches and a half, and of middle 

 tail-feathers, eight inches or more, passing the next pair by about three 

 inches. 



Inhabits the south-eastern Himalaya and the hill ranges of Assam ; 

 being tolerably common at Darjeeling, 



