8 
Genus Callene, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. p. 136 (1847). 
Syn. Cinclidium, Blytli (nec Gould). 
Gen. Char. “ Bill shorter than the head, straight, slender, higher 
than broad, the ridge of the upper mandible tolerably acute, and its 
tip very slightly emarginated ; inferior gonys ascending for the ter- 
minal half, imparting to the bill the appearance of a tendency to bend 
upward : naral apertures an elongate-oval fissure in the lateral nasal 
membrane, and partially impended by the short semi-reflected frontal 
feathers ; gape armed with a few small setse ; wings and tail rounded, 
the 4th, 5th and 6th primaries equal and longest ; legs and toes slen- 
der, the tarsi smooth and unscutellate, and very long, as is also the 
middle toe ; claws but moderately curved, and of little more than 
mean length ; plumage light, soft and full, having a scale-like appear- 
ance on the crown, breast and belly.” 
3. Callene frontale, Blyth. 
Syn. Cinclidium frontale, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 181, 
xii. p. 954. t. p. 1010. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 301. 
Callene frontale , Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 136 ; Catal. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 178. 
Ruticilla frontalis, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. 
Brachypteryx scapularis, Horsf. MS. 
Hab. Nepal (No. 950, Ilodgs. Catal.). 
Spec. Char. “ Plumage dark fusco-cyaneous, the rump dusky ; 
flanks somewhat ashy, and middle of the belly slightly grey-edged ; 
lores and immediately above the beak blackish, contrasting with a 
bright cserulean forehead ; bend of the wing also cserulean, but less 
bright ; and winglet, primaries and their coverts, secondaries and ter- 
tiaries, dark olive-brown ; a white spot on the under surface of the 
wing, beneath the winglet ; bill black ; legs dusky brown. 
“ Length, 7J- inches ; of wing from bend, 3f ; middle tail-feathers, 
3f, the outermost f of an inch shorter ; bill to forehead nearly f, to 
gape -j-f ; tarse. If ; middle toe and claw, l T 3 -g ; hind toe and claw, f ; 
the last, f . 
“This bird is reported to be a fine songster, and heard chiefly in 
the evening.” — Blyth. 
Subfam. Timalina. 
Genus Trichastoma, Blvtli. 
Syn. Ma/acocincla, Blyth. 
Gen. Char. “ Bill as long as the head, rather stout, high, much 
compressed, the tip of the upper mandible pretty strongly hooked, 
but indistinctly emarginated, and its ridge obtusely angulated. towards 
the base, the remainder scarcely angulated ; gape but little widened, 
and feebly bristled ; nostrils large and subovate, with oval aperture 
to the front, a little removed from the base of the bill ; tarse of mean 
