474 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



other sex ; axillaries and froe-part of the inner surface of the wing, also 

 pure white. From Darjeelino-. 



Siphia leucura, (Gm.), p. 125, ante. With respect to the rufous 

 throat of this species, I find that it is assumed by every male at the 

 commencement of the hot weather, or during the month of March ; 

 being obtained by a partial moulting confiued to the feathers of the 

 throat. I think that I have seen the same remarked of the European 

 S. parva. 



Pratincola leucura, nobis, n. s. In my notice of this genus (p. 129, 

 ante), I overlooked the present species, which is the representative of 

 Pr. rubicola and of Pr. indica in Scinde. Dimensions of the latter 

 species, and general aspect of the upper-parts as in the former, but 

 the rufous of the breast is confined to a rather small patch, the sides 

 of the breast and the whole abdominal region, with the lower tail- 

 coverts (if not the upper also), being pure white ; and the exterior four 

 (if not five) rectrices on either side are wholly white on their inner 

 webs except at tip, the dark colour at tip increasing successively to the 

 outermost feather, which alone has its whole outer web dark, the rest 

 having merely the terminal half of their outer webs dark-coloured. 

 Described from a slightly injured male (with imperfect tail, and its 

 upper coverts wanting), in full summer dress, procured by the late Sir 

 Alexander Burnes in upper Scinde.* 



Ianthia flavolivacea, (Hodgson,) p. 133, ante. A finer specimen of 

 this bird than the one previously described, i. e. in fresher plumage, 

 has the upper-parts fulvescent-olive, with the fulvous tinge somewhat 

 stronger towards the tail, and the under-parts dilute rusty, having a 

 faint golden gloss. It has much the aspect of the female Tarsiger 

 chrysceus, Hodg., but is readily distinguished by wanting the yellow at 

 the base of the tail, and by having its under-parts much less yellow. 

 From Darjeeling. 



Tesia auriceps, Hodgson, p. 137, ante. This has lately been received 

 by the Society, and it appears to me to be merely a bright old male 

 of T. cyaniventer, Hodgson, having (i. e. the Society's specimen) all 

 its colours more intense than usual, and the cap fine golden-green 

 rather than "golden-yellow," and not contrasting very strongly with 

 the green of the back. 



Tardus unicolor, Tickell, Gould, and T. dissimifis, nobis, p. 144, ante. 

 I regarded these birds as distinct, more from deference to the opinions 

 of others than from my own conviction : and now I have procured two 



* Add Muscicapn lueionensis, var. A, Latham, to the synonymes of Pr. capruta. 



