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thaca rubecula. E. erythaca, nobis, J. A. S. XVI, 126, is again 

 closely affined, but well distinguished. Identical in structure, but with- 

 out the white on the tail, though otherwise similar in general colouring, 

 and also of a smaller size, we have them the Himalayan E. acornaus, 

 of which we have now seen numerous specimens all quite similar ; and 

 the present little bird of Central India, which we formerly supposed to 

 be identical with the last, until we found the distinguishing characters 

 of each to be constant. 



No. 1020. Cyornis magnirostris, nobis. The same Darjiling 

 collection which yielded the fragments of a Batrachostomus contained 

 also the female of a species of Cyornis quite different from any previ- 

 ously examined. It resembles the female of C. rubecidoides, but is 

 larger, with a proportionally larger and more robust bill, a very conspi- 

 cuous ring of rufescent feathers around the eye, and very pale or 

 whitish legs and claws. Length about 6 in., of wing 3 in., and tail 2} 

 in. ; bill to gape | in. ; and tarse f in. Colour brown above, darker 

 and less tinged with tawney than the female of C. ruheculoides : wings 

 and tail inclining to ferruginous : lower-parts bright ferruginous, paler 

 on the throat, pure white on the belly and lower tail-coverts, and the 

 flanks brown. Bill dusky. This bird is certainly neither the female 

 of C. unicolor, nobis, also a Sikim species ; nor that of C. pallipes, 

 (Jerdon), of S. India. 



No. 1065. Muscisaxicola -? Length 1\ in., of wing 4 in., 



and tail 3 in., its outermost feather \ in. less ; bill to gape 1 in. ; and 

 tarse the same. Colour brown above, paler below ; supercilium and 

 throat white, the latter speckled over with dusky tips to the feathers : 

 white centres to the pectoral feathers more or less developed : base of 

 the secondaries and some of the primaries ferruginous, bordered with a 

 blackish band beyond, and then again rufescent. Bill dusky, and feet 

 brown. From Chili. 



No. 1199. Hirtjndo hyperythra, Layard. Resembles H. dau- 

 rica, but has the entire under-parts (inclusive of the ear-coverts) of 

 the same deep ferruginous hue as the rump, which is deeper than that 

 of H. daurica : the mesial streaks of the feathers of the lower parts 

 being less developed. Accordingly, this species bears exactly the same 

 relationship to H. daurica, which H. cahirica does to H. rustica, and 

 has the same claim for separation. 



