1847.] Neiv or Little Known Species of Birds. Ail 



five-eighths ; and tarse five-eighths of an inch. Bill light dusky above, 

 amber-coloured below ; legs light yellowish- carneous, with a leaden 

 tinge : bill narrower than in C. Burkii ; and the rictal setse are less 

 developed ; the claws, especially that of the hind-toe, being shorter. 

 Colour, a lively yellowish-green above, bright yellow on the throat, 

 cheek, supercilium, lower tail-coverts, and edge of the wing above the 

 insertion of the quills : the great alars are also margined externally 

 with greenish -yellow, and the tail more especially towards its base : 

 greater wing-coverts tipped with pale yellow, forming a bar on the 

 wing : the entire abdomen and flanks greyish-white : on each side of 

 the crown a broad black longitudinal band, divided by a yellowish-green 

 mesial one : upper tertiaries very slightly margined at the tips with 

 yellowish-white ; and the tail-feathers having a narrow yellowish-white 

 internal border. Shot near Calcutta. 



C. poliogenysy nobis, n. s. This is nearly allied to Abrornis schisr 

 ticeps, Hodgson, (XIV, 592,) from which it differs in having the cheeks 

 and ear-coverts, with the feathers commencing from the base of the lower 

 mandible, of the same ash-grey colour as the head, and the throat greyish 

 white, instead of these parts being bright yellow, as in C. schisliceps. 

 There is also a conspicuous whitish-yellow wing-band, of which the 

 latter species presents no trace whatever. From Darjeeling. 



It is exceedingly difficult to arrange the great series of the birds of 

 this group at all satisfactorily ; and I fear that we shall have eventually 

 to adopt many divisions among them. Of the various species allied in 

 colouring and markings to Culicipeta Bur/cii, that bird stands alone in 

 several particulars, as the more decided fly-catching form of bill, and 

 accompanying development of the rictal setse ; also the longer and 

 more slender, though equally curved, claws. Although the species 

 upon which the division was originally founded, I regard it as an 

 aberrant member of its genus, though Mr. Hodgson would separate from 

 it the others by the name Abrornis^ XIV, 592. Retaining, how- 

 ever, the near Culicipeta for the series, I think we must refer to it — 

 2, C. schisticeps,* (Hodg., loc. cit.) 3, C. poliogcnys, — 4, C. cantator, 



* This is Phyllopneuste xanthoschistos, Hodgson, of Gray's catalogue; and CuUcipeta 

 schisticeps of the same is Q. cantator, (Tickell). Abrornis ch for onotus, Hodg., Gray, so 

 far as I could judge from a sadly injured specimen, did not appear lo me to differ from 



Rcguloidcs modeslus, (Gould,) except in being rather brighter than usual. 



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