ILLUSTRATIONS OP INDIAN ORNITHOLOGY 
<. P. XANTHOGENYS (Vigors). 
Ooum Century, pi. 29, fig. 1— P. aplonoto, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. 414. 
Mr E r!, M V W0 r r t tieS 0f t,liS bird ’ that originally figured by 
more 1 Vl j '® Wol ' th WeSt Hlmala y a , in which the yellow is 
moie brilhant and extended; and that from Central and Southern 
ia, in winch the yellow is more contracted and considerably 
bo;, !r b ! aCk m ° re devel0ped ; but thoiiffh constant to 
then distinctions, they can hardly be separated as species. 
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8 . P. RUF ONTJ CHAUS (Blyth.) 
Journ. As. Soc. B. xviii. 810. 
From the Tyne range of mountains north of Simla. 
9. P. MELANOLOPHUS (Vigors.) 
Gould’s c Century/ pi. 30 , p. 21. 
Inhamts the North West Himalaya, and according to Mr. Jerdon 
also Orumsue, but we are not aware that specimens from these 
regions hare been compared together. 
10 . P. RUBIDIVENTRIS (Blyth.) 
Jour. As. Soc. B. xvi. 445. 
Replaces (or probably co-exists with) the last in Nipal, and was 
confounded with it. We figure them together for comparison. 
In P. rubidiventris , the black does not descend so far down the 
breast as in P. mdalophus, and the axillaries, middle of the belly 
and lower tail-coverts, are of a deeper rufous than the rest of the 
lower parts. No. 2 is very common in the Simla and Mussooree 
Hills ; but a specimen sent to the Calcutta Museum by Mr. Hodg- 
son from Nipal as No. 2, was No. 1 ; and possibly Hodgson’s 
ipa - me a ophus i of Gray s British Museum Catalogue, is also 
P. rubidiventris . 
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