472 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



the shoulder of the wing : lores, throat, and under-parts generally, 

 bright canary-yellow, tinged with a light ruddy colour on the breast and 

 Hanks : margins of primaries obscure dull yellowish. Bill small and 

 short. This bird can scarcely be the Chrysomitris compestris of Gould, 

 which inhabits the same region 1 



Nectarinia Horsfieldiy nobis, XII, 975. I have lately seen a second 

 specimen of this species, from Mussoorie ; so that it is probably pecu- 

 liar to the N. W. Himalaya. 



lor a—? In Ann. Mag. N. II. 1844, p. 42, Mr. Strickland remarks 

 that — " Dr. Horsfield has lately obtained a new Iora equal in size to 

 the small Oriolus xanthonotus ;" which species of Iora I alluded to in 

 XIV, 602. Such a bird the Society has now received from Arracan, 

 where it was obtained by Capt. Phayre. The specimen before me was 

 probably a female, measuring 6 in. in length, the wing 2f in., and tail 

 2^ in. ; hill to gape 1 in. ; and tarse f in. Colour plain green above, 

 yellow below, brightest on the throat and breast ; no white markings 

 on the wings, except a slight white edge to the primaries. If new, /. 

 innotata, nobis. In XV, 44, I suggested that this genus might " per- 

 haps come within the extreme confines of the Meliphagidce ;" and 

 subsequent observation of the habits of Phyllornis has led me (p. 118, 

 ante), to approximate Iora to that genus, with which I think it should 

 form a particular subfamily of Meliphagidce (peculiar to Southern Asia 

 and its islands) ; and Oriolince — to which Mr. Strickland regards Iora as 

 subordinate — I regard as another subfamily of the same major group. 



Pycnonotus nigropileus, nobis, n. s. In XV, 286, I had occasion 

 to offer some remarks on the Bulbouls immediately allied to P. joco- 

 sus ; and now we have an analogous little group formed by the present 

 species, with P. bengalensis and P. hoemorrhous. The bird now describ- 

 ed inhabits the Tenasserim provinces, and merely differs from P. 

 hoemorrhous in having no black on the throat and breast, which are 

 brown with greyish margins to the feathers, like the back ; and the 

 whole nape and back are much paler than in P. hoemorrhous, — the cap 

 alone being black. 



Ruligula aberrans (1), nobis, XV, 287 : R. gularis, fcem. (?) A 

 second specimen received from Ceylon entirely resembles that previ- 

 ously described. 



