1847.] New or Little Known Species of Birds. 463 



of Eyton truly belong to the present series, another subdivision will be 

 required for its reception. 



I have at length brought my remarks on the Iusessores to a close for 

 the present ; and it is not likely that I shall again have such an accu- 

 mulation of them to deal with. In conclusion, I may once more refer 

 to Mr. Hodgson's late paper, in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society,' for April 8th, 1845, to identify a few more synonymes than 

 have been already indicated in the present article. — Mixornis ruficeps 

 =M. chloris* J. A. S. XI, 794, and note to XIII, 380 ; Erpomis 

 xanthochlora—E '. xantholeuca, Hodgson, XIII, 380 ; Horeites schistila- 

 tus, Horornis ? fidigiventer, and H ? fulviventris, — non vidi ; Chelido- 

 rhynx chrysoschistos—Rhipidura kypoxanthus, (nobis,) XII, 936. The 

 reduction of synonymes is oftentimes a more acceptable service to Zoolo- 

 gy, than the establishment (or especially the semi-establishment) of 

 species previously undescribed ; and the time and labour expended in 

 the task of reducing synonymes, can only be appreciated by those who 

 have personally engaged in it. 



Postscript. — The Strix indranee of Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, 

 p. 82, is a species which has not heretofore been identified ; but I think 

 there can be little doubt that it refers to the young of Bulaca newaren- 

 sis, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX, 168, and J. A. S. VI, 372, v. B. montico- 

 la, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. No. XXX, 167 ; therebeing evidently a mistake 

 in the dimensions assigned — " longitudo corporis 21 unc, caudae 9," — 21 

 being put for 11. Thus Mr. Jerdon gives — " Length of male 20 in., of 

 female 22 in. Of the latter the wing is 14, tail 9 ;" and in a fine 

 specimen from Goomsoor, which looks in imperfectly mature plumage, 

 the length of wing and tail are respectively as here given ; but its total 

 length would scarcely have exceeded 19 in. Mr. Hodgson states that 

 the sexes of his B. newarensis " are alike both as to size and colours," 

 and merely gives the dimensions as " 20 to 21 inches, by 48 to 50 

 between the wings :" but rather the larger of two fine specimens before 

 me, from the N. W. Himalaya, has the wing 17 inches long, and the 

 tail 11 inches ; and its total length, when recent, must have been fully 

 2 ft. All, however, are evidently of the same species, which must now 

 accordingly rank as Bulaca indranee, (Sykes.) Mr. G. R. Gray has 

 figured this bird with yellow irides, instead of their being dark brown : 

 * Probably Motacitlu rubicapilla, Tickell, ns I formerly suggested. 



