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ORNITHOLOGY OF NEPAL. 



massive bill, notched and bent in both mandibles ; the unfossed nares ; and 

 the short, half-fleshy tongue of the Garruli and Piece, no way consort with 

 the structure of the same parts in the Cinclosomce, which, in each of these 

 respects, bear a distinct affinity with Ttirdus, and, more generally, with 

 the Meruliclce. 



June 1836. 



II.— NEW SPECIES OF THE THICK BILLED FINCHES. 



rRINGlLLIDiE CoCCOTHRAUSTIN^, 



Genus Coccothraustes ? 



- Species, new. Coc. Melanozanthos, Black and yellow Finch, nobis. 



Form : bill exceedingly gross, as high as long ; tips of both mandibles 

 compressed, mutually bent and notched ; upper mandible arched along the 

 culminal and rictal lines, strangulated and furnished with a large tooth at 

 the base ; lower mandible wider at the base than the upper, and flattened 

 beneath. Nares remote, ovoid, opened laterally at the lower end of a basai 

 transverse membranous groove ; their aperture hid by hairs. Wings long 

 and firm, reaching to middle of tail : 2d quill usually longest : primaries 

 nearly twice as long as tertiaries, and very firm. Tail distinctly forked. 

 Tarsi low, stout, heavily scaled, longer than any toe : toes medial, unequal, 

 stout ; fores compressed ; hind depressed ; external fore basally connected : 

 i^ails stout, falcate, moderately acute. 



(Colour and size : — Male. — Above, with the entire head and neck, slaty 

 black ; Mow, bright yellow : long coverts of the wings tipped broadly 

 with yellow, e.nd a broad stripe of the same on the outer edge of the second- 

 aries and tertiaries. : a white speculum on the primaries, next to the false 

 wing: bill and legs, plumbeous: iris, brown. Female, — much more 

 variegated : wings and tail a,s in the male : top of the head and dorsal neck, 



