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Chatareh^a gtjlaris, nobis, n. s. A handsome species of this group, 

 and the first which we have seen from the eastern side of the Bay of 

 Bengal : though Ch. Eaelei, nobis, extends into Tippera. It is affined 

 to Ch. Eaelei, but with a still longer tail, which is more distinctly rayed 

 across. Colour ruddy -brown, passing to olivaceous on the hind-part of the 

 back, each feather having a narrow black mesial streak : frontal feathers 

 narrow, stiffish, pointed, and white with black mesial line ; these peculiar 

 feathers continued over but not beyond the eye : lores blackish : chin and 

 throat pure white, extending down the front of the neck : ear- coverts and 

 sides of neck unstreaked ruddy : breast and flanks ruddy-brown, paler 

 on belly, and the lower tail-coverts duller brown : tail dull olive-brown, 

 and conspicuously rayed across. Bill dull plumbeous, yellowish towards 

 gape ; and legs pale brown, darker on joints. Length about 11 in. ; of 

 tail 6 in. : closed wing 3f in. ; bill to gape 1 in. ; and tarse 1| m - Pegu* 



Arachnotheea aubata, nobis, n. s. Like A. magna, (Hodgson), but 

 considerably smaller, with the mesial dark streaks to the feathers much 

 less developed, excepting on the crown, and becoming almost obsolete on 

 the rump : on the lower-parts, they are scarcely broader than the shafts 

 of the feathers, whereas in A. magna they are much broader : the edge 

 of the wing is also of a much brighter yellow than in A. magna. Length 



* Having had occasion to re-examine the series of Indian Crateropodin^e, 

 it was found expedient to subdivide the genus Malacocercus, Swainson, as 

 follows : 



1. Acanthoptila, nobis. Type, Timalia nipalensis, Hodgson. 



2. CHATARRHiEA, nobis. Ch. gularis, ut supra, is about the most typical 

 species. Others exist in Ch. caudata {Timalia chatarrhaa, Franklin), — Ch. 

 Huttoni, nobis, J. A. S. XVI, 476, from Kandahar, — and Ch. Earlei, nobis. 



3. Malcolmia, nobis. Type, M. albifrons (v. Garrulus albifrons, Gray, 

 Hardw. ///. Ind. Zool., v. Timalia Malcolmi, Sykes). A second species would 

 seem to exist iD the Malurus squamiceps, Ruppell, of Egypt and Nubia; and a 

 third probably in the M. acacia, Ruppell, of Arabia Petrsea. 



4. Layardia, nobis. Type, L. subrufa (v. Timalia subrufa, Jerdon, v. 

 T. pcecilorhyncha, Lafresnaye). A second species would seem to exist in the Cra- 

 teropus rubiginosus , Ruppell, of Schoa. 



5. Malacocercus, Swainson ; as confined to the species with rounded frontal 

 plumes and less elongated and graduated tail, which are affined to the true Cra- 

 teropodes of Africa (as exemplified by the locos plebeius, leucocephalus, and 

 leucopygius of Ruppell ; the Crateropus Jardinii, A. Smith, of S. Africa, 

 illustrating another division of the same group). Of restricted Malococercus, 

 about ten species (or distinguishable races) exist in all India and Ceylon, to 

 which range of country they appear to be confined exclusively. 



