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nigricollis, nobis, XII, 960, and rodogaster, Hodg., ibid, (the young) : 

 found in Nepal and Assam, as well as in the vicinity of the Straits. 



Myiophonus, Tern. Two Indian species, both figured in Gould's 

 1 Century of Himalayan birds.' M. Temminckii is indeed common 

 throughout the Himalaya, frequenting the beds of streams in the lower 

 ranges ; and its musical whistle (according to Mr. Vigne,) is the sweet- 

 est note heard in the hills : but M. Horsjieldi is confined exclusively to 

 the mountainous parts of Southern India. Two other species occur in 

 Java, M. cyaneus, (Horsfield), v. glaucinus, Tem. ; and M. Jiaviros- 

 tris, (Horsfield), v. metallicus, Tem. A fifth would seem to exist in le 

 Merle bleu de la Chine of Sonnerat, v. Gracula ccerulea, Scop., and 

 Turdus violaceus, Lath. Mr. Swainson also mentions M. nitidus, Gray ; 

 but this is probably one of the two Indian species already referred to. 



The great series of South American Myiotherince seems to grade 

 completely into the Thamnophilince or Bush Shrikes of Swainson, in- 

 habiting the same regions ; but presents some forms which certainly 

 approximate the Brachyuri of the Old World and Australia ; and 

 others again grade into the Wrens (Troglodytes), also chiefly an 

 American group, but which comprises a few Old World species, among 

 which are two from the Himalaya described in XIV, 589. I now add 

 a very distinct form, by the name 



Rimator, nobis. The species upon which this division is founded is 

 a very curious little Myiotherine bird, the immediate affinities of which 

 are not obvious. Bill longer than the head, compressed, a little incurv- 

 ed, the curvature increasing to the tip where the extremity of the upper 

 mandible passes and bends over that of the lower one, but without any 

 well defined emargination ; culmen rounded for the terminal two- thirds 

 or more, but becoming angulated towards the base ; and the tomiae but 

 little inflected : the nostrils pierced in an ovate basal membrane, their 

 aperture being a little removed from the base of the bill : gape extend- 

 ing to beneath the fore-part of the eye, and unarmed, or having but a 

 few short and inconspicuous hairs : legs moderately strong, suited for 

 progression either upon the ground, or up the slanting bough of a tree ; 

 the tarse nearly as long as the middle toe with its claw, and hav- 

 ing four long scutae to the front, and two shorter ones below: toes 

 rather long, the outer a trifle more so than the inner, and reaching 

 to the base of the claw of the mid-toe : claws not much curved, that of the 



