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Of skins of mammalia, Vulpes montanus, very fine ; Paradoxurus 

 Grayi (P. nipalensis, Hodgson) ; and two of Mustela subhemachalana, 

 Hodgson.* 



Among the birds, a noble Aquila chrysaetos, fully mature ; Buteo 

 vulgaris {rujiventer, Jerdon)f ; Circus ctaneus, fine ashy male ; Ketu- 

 pa flavipes, (Hodgson), young ; Hemilophus pulverulentus, from the 

 Deyra Doon (three specimens obtained ; we previously possessed this 

 largest of Asiatic woodpeckers, an inhabitant chiefly of the Malayan pen- 

 insula, from Arakan, and had been assured that it had been seen and 

 recognised at Darjiling ; and few Woodpeckers would be more easy 

 to recognise even at a distance, from its great size and very peculiar 

 colour) ; Tiga Shorei, m. and f. ; Cypselus leuconyx (the JN". W. Hima- 

 laya appears to be the main habitat of this species, which rarely strays so 

 far as Bengal or S. India; it is distinguished from the nearly affined C. 

 vittatus of the Malay countries and China by its smaller size and pro- 

 portionally smaller feet, the claws of which are commonly but not always 

 white or whitish) ; Parus modestus {Sylviparus modestus, Eyton, v. 

 P. sericophrys, Hodgson) ; Euspiza eucata (apparently not uncommon, 

 and seeming an irregular and uncertain winter visitant in Lower Bengal) ; 

 Eu. Stewarti, n. s. ;£ Accentor variegatus, nobis, several ; Alauda 

 leiopus, Hodgson ;§ Anthus cervinus, fine; Grandala co^licolor ; 



* The museum is ill supplied with skins of the Himalayan true Mustel^e. 



f There are five uumistakeable skins of this species ; and it seems now that this 

 is the ordinary hill or rather mountain Buzzard of India, replaced by B. rufinus 

 on the plains : the latter is larger, and varies much less in the colours of its 

 plumage, than the other. 



X Euspiza Stewarti, nobis. Affined to Eu. cossia (Cretzch.) Length about 

 5£ in. ; of wing 3 to 3£ in. ; and tail 2\ in. Crown and front of neck ashy ; the 

 ear-coverts and upper-parts of breast albescent-ashy ; throat and supercilia black, 

 the feathers of the former margined with whitish towards the chin; lower half of 

 breast, flanks partly, nape, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and fore-part of wings, 

 deep-ferruginous approaching to maronne, the feathers more or less bordered paler : 

 rest of wings dusky, the feathers margined with brown ; and belly and lower tail- 

 coverts buffy-white ; tail having its outermost feather f white, and the next \ 

 white. A younger male, or seemingly shot earlier in the breeding season, has the 

 fore-part of the wing less rufous, the pale margins to the feathers generally rather 

 more developed, and slight central dusky spots on those of the back. 



§ Alauda leiopus, Hodgson. Absolutely resembles the British Sky Lark 

 (A. arvensis, v. duicivox, Hodgson), except in being smaller. Length of wing 

 3\ to 3| in., and of tail 2£ in. This species was long ago sent to the museum by 



