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ORNITHOLOGY OF NEPAL. 



The genus I now propose, as well as its location, are both provisional 

 — my knowledge of the structure and habits of the species being confes- 

 sedly incomplete ; and the directions of the books within my reach being 

 better calculated to misguide than to guide. 



These little birds, so far as I have yet ascertained, adhere exclusively 

 to the great forests : prefer the lower and more umbrageous to the higher 

 and barer trees ; and seem to procure no portion of their food from the ground 

 though their feet are sufficiently adapted for walking. They are usually 

 found in small flocks ; and have a monotonous feeble monosyllabic note. 



Their intestines are about the length of their body (from the tip of the 

 bill to the tip of the tail) furnished with grain-like caeca, near the lower 

 end, and of nearly uniform diameter. Their stomach has the muscular 

 coat of very moderate, subequal, thickness, and the lining is neither very 

 tough nor much grooved. 



Three species are known to me, in ail of which the sexes resemble 

 each other. I now proceed to a summary description of them, premising 

 that the two first are typical — the last, much less so. 



■ Species 1st. Yuhina Gularis ; Spotted Throated Yuhin, nobis. 



Above, with the tertiaries and tail feathers, obscure olive brown ; cap, 

 darker and purer brown ; ears, chin, throat and breast obscure rufous wood 

 brown ; the chin and throat spotted blackish, and bounded laterally by a 

 longitudinal stripe of the same hue ; rest of body below, bright orange-rusty ; 

 primaries and secondaries black, the former with a narrow edging of hoary, 

 and the latter, Avith a broad one of orange ; lining of the wings and inner 

 margin of the quills tov^^ards their bases, albescent ; tail dusky internally ; 

 legs deep orange ; bill fleshy brown with dusky culmen ; iris brown ; head 

 with a full soft mobile and subrecurved crest : size 6^ by 8f inches and 

 f oz : bill, ii inch ; tarsus -f^ ; central toe '•> ^^^^^ toe 



• Species 2d. Yuhina Occipitales ; Rusty-naped Yuhin, nobis. 



Above with the whole tertiaries and outer webs of the larger remiges 

 and of all the rectrices, dull obscure olive brown ; top of the head and back 

 of neck dull slaty with hoary stripes ; the nape bright rusty ; ears, chin, 



