1.) 1 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



Some doubt still remains respecting the identification of Garrulus 

 albifrons, Gray, with M . Malcohni : but to the former must be referred 

 the Pale-eared Trush of Latham ; and his Gogaye Thrush is evidently 

 a species nearly allied to M. Earlei and M. caudatas. Both the latter 

 occur plentifully in Lower Bengal, above the tideway of the river ; fre- 

 quenting hedges and small detached trees in the open cultivated coun- 

 try, and never "mango topes" or groves, like M. terricolor. It is 

 remarkable that M. Earlei has the iris bright light yellow, while that 

 of M. caudatus is dark hazel.* 



The Timalia hypoleuca, Franklin, v. T. Horsfieldi, J. and S., is cited 

 as Chrysomma hypoleucos, (Fr.) Hodgs., in J. A. S. XIV, fi02 s and 

 Mr. Hodgson has designated the group Chrysomma in P. Z. S. 1845, 

 p. 24. I agree with him that it is justly separable. This bird is the 

 Paras sinensis, Lath., which specific name should stand, provided the 

 species prove to inhabit China. It is also the Gotah Finch, and Em- 

 beriza calf at, var. A, of Latham. 



Genus Prinia, Horsfield, and its immediate affines. This group was 

 treated of in XIII, 375 et seq., and some more recent discoveries in 

 it by Mr. Jerdon are alluded to in XIV, 490. That gentleman has 

 since obliged me with the loan of his specimens ; and it appears that a 

 further dismemberment of the series is required, than the separation of 

 the little group Cisticola. Without coining a new name, the species 

 may be distributed under Prinia, Cisticola, and Drymoica. 



The typical Prinice have a rather longer, straighter, and more slender 

 bill, which in all the Indian species appears to be constantly of a black 

 colour ; and the hues of the plumage are mostly pure greyish and bright- 

 ish olive-green above, with clear fulvous-white or yellow below. Alto- 

 gether, they approximate more to the Orthotomi, or Tailor-birds ; so 

 much so, that Mr. Swainson has suggested that Pr. familiaris of Java 

 is "probably an aberrant species of Orthotomus ;" and Col. Sykes 

 remarks, of his Pr. socialis, that it constructs the same ingenious nest, 

 and has the same habits, same note, and feeds in the same manner, as 



* Recently, I have observed M. caudatus in abundance, in low bush cover in the 

 vicinity of Midnapore ; and M. Earlei, also, is common in some parts of the same district, 

 in general frequenting higher bush-jungle. — This genus, Malacocercus, seems to be 

 wholly Indian, and finds its nearest allies in the African Crateropodes. The Burmese and 

 Malayan countries seem to have no immediate representatives of it; and, in the latter 

 more especially, species of Garrulax seem to be almost wholly wanting. 



