450 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



Sibia , but it incurves less than in Sibia, and has the tip of its upper 

 inaudible slightly bent over, and emarginated feebly ; the upper ridge 

 being more obtusely angulated than in the others : nostrils somewhat 

 large, the orifice reduced to a fissure by the overlapping membrane : 

 rictal bristles fine and inconspicuous. Wings rather short, and round- 

 ed ; having the first primary but half the length of the third, and the 

 fourth and fifth longest : the tertiaries broad, and almost truncate. Tail 

 somewhat long, having its three medial pairs of feathers equal, the rest 

 graduating. Legs too much destroyed in the only specimen examined, 

 to permit of description. 



L. annectans, nobis. Length about seven inches and a quarter, of 

 wing three and an eighth, and tail three and a half, its outermost feathers 

 an inch less ; bill to gape three-quarters of an inch, and tarse seven- 

 eighths. Colour of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, bright 

 rufo-ferruginous (much as in the male Cutia nipalensis) ; the great 

 range of wing-coverts broadly tipped, and the tertiaries edged externally 

 towards their base, with the same : scapularies, flanks, and lower tail- 

 coverts, weaker ferruginous, and a trace of the same at the setting on 

 of the neck : throat and breast pure white ; the head, neck, and ear- 

 coverts, black, mingled with brownish upon the crown, and streaked 

 on the nape with white : wings and tail black, the caudal feathers white- 

 tipped, and successively more deeply so to the outermost ; the primaries 

 and secondaries edged externally with ash-grey, and the tertiaries border- 

 ed with white round their broad tips. Bill black, with the base of the 

 lower mandible yellow ; and the legs pale. From Darjeeling. 



Garrulax, Lesson. To the synopsis of this genus in XIV, 598 et 

 seq 3 I have only further to add, that Mr. Jerdon has favored me with 

 a copy of Buffon's figure, in the Planches Colories, upon which was 

 founded G. perspicillatus, (Gm.) ; and this confirms me in my opinion 

 that the species is alike distinct from G. Belangeri and G. leucolophos, 

 though nearly allied to both, and forming with them a particular subsec- 

 tion. Of G. Belangeri, the Society has been recently favoured by Mr. 

 Barbe with many specimens from the Tenasserim Province of Ye,* all 

 exactly agreeing in their distinctions from G. leucolophos of the Hima- 

 laya, Assam, Sylhet, and Arracan : and also with specimens of G. 

 pectoralis from the same part, remarkable for the very slight develop- 

 * Also with others from the vicinity of Amherst, forwarded by E. O'ilyloy, Esq. 



