178 Report on the Mammalia and more remarkable [No. 2. 



Hirundo domicola, Jerdon ; H. javanica apud Latham and 

 Shaw. c Bungalow Swallow' of residents in the Nilgiris. 



Corydalla striolata, nobis, J. A, S. XVI, 435. 



Munia pectoralis, (? Jerdon), adult. This species was once only- 

 obtained by Mr. Jerdon in S. India, and his specimen (which is in the 

 Society's museum) would now seem to be a young bird. What appears 

 to be the adult is brown above, with pale stems to the feathers, nearly 

 obsolete on the back ; and passing to blackish on the forehead, wings, 

 rump, and tail : throat and fore-neck, with the cheeks, deep brown- 

 black : the smaller upper tail-coverts are variegated with white, and 

 the longer are largely tipped with fulvous : under-parts variegated ; 

 the breast brown, and belly and lower tail-coverts black, the last having 

 white medial streaks, and the rest of the under-parts white subterminal 

 bands, and the flank-feathers a second and some of them a third white 

 cross-band additionally. Beak livid bluish ; and feet dark plumbeous. 

 Length of wing 2ts in. ; tail If in. ; beak from frontal angle tf in. 



Pycnonotus penicillatus, Kelaart, n. s. : Yellow - eared Bulbul 

 (?), Jerdon, Madras Journ. XIII, 168. Bright olive-green above, 

 yellow below : crown and cheeks black, passing to pure ashy on the 

 ear- coverts ; the chin, feathers at the angle of the lower mandible, and 

 somewhat elongated loral tuft pointing upwards, white ; above the eye, 

 also, a white spot, and below it a yellow one, — and proceeding back- 

 ward from the eye, above, is a lengthened tuft of bright yellow, silky, 

 pointed feathers : no white marks on the tail. Bill black ; and feet 

 blackish. Length about 7 in., of wing 3^ in., and tail 3 in. ; bill to 

 gape ^f in. ; and tarse | in. Peculiar to the mountain region. 



Brachypteryx (?) Palliseri, Kelaart, n. s. Female? A rich 

 dark olive or somewhat tawny brown above, paler below, and whitish 

 along the middle of the abdomen ; flanks and lower tail-coverts dark ; 

 and a strong rufous tinge on the chin and throat. Bill dusky above, 

 whitish beneath. Feet brown. Length about 6|- in., of wing 2f in., 

 and tail2f in. : bill to gape if in. ; tarse 1 in. The 5th, 6th, and 7th 

 primaries equal and longest, the 1st 1 in. shorter; and the outermost 

 tail-feather If in. shorter than the middle ones. 



Palumbus Elphinstonei (?, Sykes), var. ? This bird is so 

 closely affined to the Nilgiri race, that we do not venture to separate it, 

 however strongly distinguished in its colouring ; quite as much so, for 



