184/.] New or Little Known Species of Birds. 473 



Tchitrea affinis, XV, 292. Specimens of Shah Bulbouls from Dar- 

 jeeling are clearly of this species, as shown by the form of the crest, 

 and the much narrower and less lengthened middle tail-feathers than in 

 Teh. paradisi ; but the black edgings of the tail-feathers are scarcely 

 more developed than in the latter, and it is remarkable that in Ma- 

 lacca specimens these edgings are more developed than in those from 

 Arracan and the Tenasserim provinces. 



Lanius 1 alitor a, XV, 300. To the synonymes of this species should 

 have been added L. hurra, Gray, of Hardwicke's Illustrations, founded 

 on a wretched native drawing, which was evidently intended to represent 

 the ordinary grey Shrike of India. 



Tephrodornis affinis, nobis, n. s. Merely differs from T. pondice- 

 rianus (XV, 305), in being greyer, and in wanting the conspicuous 

 whitish supercilium. It is common in Ceylon. 



Niltava McGregorice, (Burton). The Society has at length received 

 this beautiful little species from Darjeeling : and I have no hesitation in 

 assigning to it, as synonymes, not only N.fidigiv enter, Hodgson, but 

 (as the female) Leiothrix signata, McClelland and Horsfield, vel Niltava 

 auricularis, Hodgson, placed as a Siphia in p. 127> ante. The bird 

 described by Mr. Hodgson as the female, in the ' India Review,' I, 

 650, is clearly of another species, being probably his Dimorpha moni- 

 liger (p. 127, ante). With the colouring and general structure of its 

 congeners, this bird approaches Muscicapida in its small size, and form 

 of bill ; and it much resembles Niltava grandis in its colouring, but lias 

 merely the front (instead of the whole cap) ultramarine-blue, and 

 scarcely a trace of this on the shoulder of the wing, — also the anterior 

 half of the inner side of the wing white, instead of black, — and the 

 abdomen dusky-ash passing into white towards the vent. Its range may 

 now be traced from Simla to Darjeeling, and thence to Assam. The 

 bill of this bird differs greatly from that of N. sundara, but that of N. 

 grandis is intermediate. 



Muscicapula sapphira, nobis, XII, 939 ; figured in Jerdon's * Illus- 

 trations of Indian Ornithology.' In the female of this species, the wings, 

 tail, and rump, are of the same beautiful deep blue as in the male ; but 

 the head, neck, and interscapularies, are plain brown ; throat and fore- 

 neck ferruginous, rather paler and much broader than in the male ; and 

 the belly and lower tail-coverts are of the same bluish-white as in the 



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