156 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



6. Pr. Ilodgsoni, nobis, XIII, 3/6 : Pr. gracilis apud Jerdon, et 

 nos passim. 



7. Pr. gracilis, Franklin.* A species which I consider to be this one, 

 was observed abundantly in the low sal jungles to the northward 

 of Midnapore ; and some time previously, Mr. Jerdon forwarded a young 

 bird with the MS. name Pr. tarda, which, without having now by me 

 for comparison, I suspect will prove to be the same. Length four inches 

 and a half, by five and three-quarters in alar expanse ; wing an inch and 

 seven-eighths ; tail two inches ; bill to gape five-eighths ; tarse thirteen- 

 sixtccnths of an inch. Some specimens are rather smaller. Bill black ; 

 irides deep amber ; bare orbits dull yellow ; feet dull orpiment-yellow. 

 Colour slightly rufescent olive above, greyer on the head and neck ; the 

 wing-feathers edged externally with rufous-brown : under-parts silky- 

 white, tinged with yellowish-fulvous on the flanks, and faintly on the sides 

 of the neck : tail brown, albescent-greyish underneath, with subterminal 

 dark band and whitish tips, much more conspicuous on the under sur- 

 face than above. The following is the description which I took of Mr. 

 Jerdon' s specimen from S. India : — 



Colour light greyish olive-green above, slightly fulvescent white 

 below, with a tinge of yellow on the sides of the neck : wings pale 

 dusky, margined with light rufescent-brown ; and tail the same, with a 

 very strongly marked subterminal blackish band and pale greyish tips, 

 as seen beneath, but the former scarcely visible on its middle feathers 

 above : bill pale, the ridge a little dusky towards its tip ; and legs very 

 pale, probably flesh-coloured in the recent specimen. Length about five 

 inches or less, of wing one and seven-eighths, and middle tail-feathers 

 two inches, the outermost an inch and an eighth less ; tarse thirteen- 

 sixteenths. — This species is very common in the Midnapore jungles, 

 in straggling flocks of a dozen or more individuals ; and a number of 

 them together sometimes utter a twittering kind of song : but from 

 their small size, restlessness, and the nature of the cover they frequent, 

 it requires some patience to obtain a number of specimens. 



8. Pr. rufescens, nobis, n. s. Closely allied to the last, from which 

 it is distinguished by the much more rufous colouring of its entire 



* Nee Pr. gracilis, Ruppell, which should be a Drymoica, if the distmetion here pro- 

 rosed be adopted. 



