1847.] New or Little Known Species of Birds. 455 



Orthotomus longicauda* In general, I think it will be observed that 

 they frequent higher jungle, and scrubby open country less, than the 

 Brymoicce ; which would bear out their affinity to the Orthotomi : and, 

 lastly, it may be remarked, that the first species below noticed was 

 classed as an Orthotomus by, I believe, the Baron de la Fresnaye. 



1. Pr. flaviventris, (Delessert,) vide XIII, 376* This species is 

 remarkable for the absence of subterminal variegation to its tail-feathers. 



2. Pr. olivaceus, (Raffles,) Lin. Tr. XIII, 313. Apparently closely 

 allied to the preceding, but having a subterminal blackish band to its 

 tail-feathers. 



3. Pr. familiarisy Horsfield, figured both in the ' Zoological Re* 

 searches in Java,' and by Mr. Swainson. Also evidently allied to the 

 two preceding. 



4. Pr. socialis, Sykes : Foodkey Warbler of Latham. Southern India. 



5. Pr. Stewarti, nobis ; Sylvia kalaphutki, Buch. Ham., MS. : 

 probably Flaxen Warbler, var. A, of Latham. I found this species upon 

 three specimens procured by Dr. Stewart near Agra, which alike differ 

 from three of Pr. socialis before me, in their smaller size, considerably 

 smaller bill, whiter throat, and much less distinct subterminal broad caudal 

 band as seen above, the rest of the tail-feathers being also considerably 

 more rufescent : in other respects the two species present a close resem- 

 blance. Length of wing an inch and three-quarters ; tail two and a 

 quarter ; bill to gape nine-sixteenths ; tarse three-quarters of an inch : 

 the corresponding measurements in Pr. socialis being two inches, two 

 and a quarter, eleven-sixteenths, and seven-eighths or nearly so. In the 

 latter species, the tips of the tail-feathers have the terminal quarter of 

 an inch conspicuously black, with a slight greyish edge beyond ; while 

 in the present species the dark band is much less broad, and only appears 

 above as if showing through the feathers. 



* This observation concerning the nest leads me to suggest that the " unspotted 

 verditer-blue eggs" found in some Tailor-birds' nests, as noticed by Mr. Hodgson, in P. 

 Z. S. 1845, p. 29, were those of Pr. Hodgsmi, nobis ; for the nearly allied Drymoiea lay 

 blue eggs, as remarked by Mr. Jerdon of Dr. inornata, and so do the Malacocerci, 

 Sphenura, 8cc, to which they approximate. As for Mr. Hodgson's two species of Orthoto- 

 mus, I consider his 0. patia to be decidedly the young of the other, previously named O. 

 tingoo by Sykes. Mr. II. forwarded the young as a separate species to the Society's Mu- 

 seum. 



