NEW SPECIES OF POMATORHINUS. 



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Colour and Size. Above, dull olive green, inclining towards brown : 

 thighs, vent and under tail coverts, the same but paler : cheeks, concolorous 

 with the body : ear coverts, darker and brown : below, white, tinted with 

 rufous towards the head, and shaded with the colour of the thighs and 

 vent, towards them. Bill above and towards the tip, blackish : below, 

 pure plumbeous : legs, pure plumbeous grey : iris, hoary : whole plumage 

 black shafted, as in the last, and similarly spinous : tail closely rayed 

 across : size of the last but not measuring so much in length, owing to 

 the shorter tail, 9 inches by 10, and 2^ oz. : bill \ \ : tarsus If : central 

 toe : hind toe y\ : tail 4 : sexes alike. 



6th Species. Subgenus, Prima ? Suva, nobis. 



Character. Bill scarcely equal to the head, perfectly entire, strong, 

 obtuse, inclining to an arcuate form, subdepressed as far as the nares, 

 cylindrico-compressed beyond them. Culmen carinated half way, acutely 

 convex ; tips of both mandibles obtuse ; that of the upper longer and 

 inclining over the lower. Tomiae erect, trenchant, remote from the palate, 

 and interlocked throughout. 



Nares medial, half way from gape to tip, lunato-elliptic, and shaded 

 above by a small nude subarched scale. Rictus rather wide and strongly 

 bristled. Plumes of the forehead rigid. Nape furnished with several long 

 slender hairs. Tongue cartilaginous, simple, its tip bifid or jagged. Wings 

 rounded, rather feeble, not boM^ed, 5th and 6th quills usually longest and 

 exceeding the tertiaries by ^ an inch. 



Tarsi elevated, stout, crossed by three or four scales. Toes medial, 

 compressed, outer connected to the joint, laterals and hind subequal ; last 

 stoutest but not depressed ; nails rather acute, hind one much the strong- 

 est. Tail very long and wedged, consisting of 10 narrow, feeble plumes 

 which are greatly and equally gradated throughout. 



Tijpe and species new 1 Prinia? criniger, nobis. Suva criniger, nobis. 



Sn i/a of the Nipalese. 



Form, has been detailed above. Colour and Size. Above, dusky 

 brown, darker on the cap, paler on the tail. Below, rufescent yellow, 



