of Assam Mammalia and Birds. 



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Bengal. They have a very peculiar suppressed note, resembling 

 whono, uttered with such a degree of ventriloquism, that although 

 you see the individual from which the sound escapes, you do not ex- 

 pect it as the cause. In passing through the Sunderbunds in April 

 last, this whono was almost the only sound I heard, and I was at first 

 induced to suppose that it proceeded from some concealed animal in 

 my boat."— McClelland 's MS. 



90. Centropus lepidus, Horsf., Linn. Trans., XIII. p. 180. 



Mr. McClelland's specimen is comparatively of a large size, but 

 agrees in all particulars with the Cent, lepidus from Java. 



Genus Trogon. 



91. Trogon Hodgsonii, Gould, ' Monograph of Trogonidae.' 



Tribus Tenuirostres, Cuv. 



Fam. ClNNYRIDiE. 



Genus Cinnyris, Cuv. 



92. Cinnyris Assamensis. Cinn. nigrescens, capite supra gu- 

 Idque metallice purpureis ; dorso et colli lateribus intense fusce- 

 scenti-rubris ; plumis ad partem dorsi posteriorem flavido termi- 

 natis ; uropygio, tectricibus caudce superioribus, rectricibusque 

 cauda duabus intermediis metallice purpureis ; his elongatis ; ab- 

 domine et crisso flavido lavatis : rostro valde incurvo, et qutim 

 caput paululum longiore. 



This species is closely allied to Cinnyris Gouldice. 



93. Cinnyris labecula. Punicea ; guki pectoreque nitidissimis ; 

 capite, plumis scapidaribus, cauddque metallice aureo viridibus ; 

 alis fuscis viridi nitentibus ; subtiis cana. 



Body three inches, tail two inches long. 



Genus Arachnothera, Teram, 



94. Arachnothera inornata, Temm., PI. Col. LXXXIV. 

 Fig. 2. 



Fam. MELIPHAGIDiE. 



Genus Chloropsis, Jard. & Selby. 



95. Chloropsis chrysogaster. Supra viridis, nitens ; pectore 

 abdomineque ex aurantio luteis ; guld, jugulo, lateribus colli, arcu- 

 que per oculos ducto atris, conterminio arete circumscriptis ; gents 

 violaceis, maculd scapulari aeruginosa ; tectricibus, remigibus pri- 

 moribus, rectricibusque nigris, nitore violaceo ; pileo aureo subni- 

 tente. 



In the specimens of the female the black mark on the throat and 

 neighbouring parts is not apparent ; the spots on the chin and 

 shoulders are obscure ; but the general colour of the upper and lower 

 parts is the same as in the male. 



Genus Dictum, Cuv. 



96. Dicaum erythronotum. Certhia erythronotos, Ind. Orn., 1.290. 

 Red-backed Creeper, Lath., Gen. Hist, of Birds, IV. 24? 1. * iSoui- 

 manga a dos rouge/ Ois. dor,, II. 57. PI. XXXV. 



