1847.] New or Little Known Species of Birds. 453 



that T. hyperythra of Jerdon's list, inhabiting southern India and 

 Ceylon, differs from true hyperythra, which I obtained in the Midna- 

 pore jungles, in having the chin and throat white, and the ferruginous 

 hue of the rest of the under- parts rather deeper. The length of recent 

 specimens was five inches and a half, by six and a half in alar expanse ; 

 closed wing two inches, to two and an eighth : iris brown ; bill pale, 

 darker above ; and legs carneous. This bird occurred in flocks, and 

 its note considerably resembles that of MaJacocercus caudatus, except in 

 being proportionally weaker. Should it be considered separable, as a 

 species, from its representative in southern India, the latter might stand 

 as M. (?) albogidaris, nobis. The difference is, indeed, somewhat 

 like that between Geocichla citrina and G. cyanotics. 



Of the more typical species of Malacocercus (vide XIII, 3G7 et seq., 

 and XIV, 597), several additional specimens of M. striatus from Cey- 

 lon are true to the characters which I pointed out as distinguishing this 

 bird from the closely allied M. terricolor* of Bengal, &c. ; though the 

 approximation of some of them is extremely close : and with these, 

 Dr. Templeton has favoured the Society with examples of a new species, 

 which may be termed 



M. rufescensy nobis. This pertains to the same section of the genus 

 as M. striatus, terricolor, malabaricus, and griseus ; but has the tail 

 longer and more graduated ; — in this respect, and in its colouring, ap- 

 proximating to the other or long-tailed section. Length above ten 

 inches, of wing four, and tail five inches, its outermost feather an inch 

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

 three-eighths. Colour deep brown above, with no intermixture of grey 

 except upon the crown, and bordering the primaries ; flanks, abdomen, 

 and lower tail-coverts, much the same ; but the throat and breast vina- 

 ceous-brown. Bill and feet bright yellow. Inhabits Ceylon. 



* With regard to my identification of this bird with Turdus canorus, Lin. (XIII, 368), 

 on the authority of Edwards's figure and description of his ' Brown Indian Thrush/ Mr. 

 Strickland writes me word : — " Turdus canorus, L., is not founded on Edwards, pi. 184, 

 (though Linnaeus erroneously quotes that plate in his synonymes). T. canorus, L., is 

 founded on T. chinemis, Osbeck ;out of which Linnaeus also inadvertently established 

 his Corvus (vel Lanius) faustus. The latter specific name should stand, being used by 

 Linnaeus in his Amoenitates Academies, prior to using canorus in the SysU Nat. 



(N. B. Osbeck's name chinenlis is out of the pale of the binomial nomenclature.) This 

 bird has a white streak behind the eye, and is the Ianthocinclu canora of my Chinese list 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. 1843, p. 221." 



