810 Note to the Catalogue of the Birds [Aug. 



No. 469. Cissa puella, nobis. Size and structure of C. vena- 

 torius, the outermost and penultimate tail-feathers shorter than in 

 that species. Entire head, neck, and breast, with the outer webs of 

 the primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, bright bay or ferruginous- 

 brown: rest of the plumage beautiful deep blue of different shades, 

 except the tips of all the tail-feathers which are white bordered above 

 with black, the middle pair with merely a trace of this : inner webs of 

 the primaries and secondaries black, empurpled except on the primaries : 

 anterior half of the wing deep indigo-blue ; the back, tail except the tips, 

 and a band across the breast, smalt blue : lower-parts dull bluish-grey. 

 Such are the colours of what is evidently a bird in its first plumage. The 

 beak looks as if it would probably have become deep coral-red ; and 

 the feet are pale, with dusky claws. Bill to gape 1 j 9 6 in. ; wing 6| in. ; 

 middle tail-feathers 8 in., the outermost 2f in., and the rest evenly 

 graduating. 



This beautiful species inhabits Ceylon. 



No. 528. Paradoxornis (Heteromorpha ?) caniceps, nobis. 

 Length about 6 in., of wing 3^ in., and tail 3 in., its outermost feather 

 \ in. less : bill to forehead \ in. ; and tarse nearly 1 in. Colour rufes- 

 cent-brown above, white below ; the head pure grey, with a black super- 

 ciliary line commencing from the nostril, and also a black chin. Bill 

 yellow; the legs plumbeous, with conspicuously pale claws. Interme- 

 diate in form of beak to the nearly affined divisions Paradoxornis and 

 Heteromorpha. 



Procured at Darjiling. 



No. 541. Parus rufonuchalis, nobis. Length 5|- in., of wing 

 3 in., and tail 2\ in. : bill to forehead -§- in., and tarse f in. Colour 

 grey, with a fulvous tinge on the back and belly ; nape-spot, axillaries, 

 and lower tail-coverts, ferruginous : crown, throat and breast, black, 

 the coronal feathers elongated to -J in. : ear-coverts and sides of the 

 neck pure white : bill black ; and feet plumbeous. 



The specimen described (a male) was procured by Capt. Hutton 

 from the range beyond Simla, near the snow line. 



No. 659. Carpodacus grandis, nobis. A typical species, distin- 

 guished by its comparatively very large size. The male is fine red, as 

 usual, but we have only the female to describe from. Length 7 in., of 

 wing 3£ in., and tail 2f in. ; bill to gape f in., and tarse f in. Dull 



