The general colour of the upper surface of these specimens is lighter than in
Indian birds, and the head and neck, instead of being deep black, are dusky brown.
The wings are of a lighter tint, and the spots on the wing-coverts are indistinct in
some and fainter in all, than in Indian birds. In one specimen a central tail feather
is tipped with white.
160. R h i p id t j r a a l b ic o l l i s , Vieill.
Platyrhynchus albicollis, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., vol. xxvii, p. 18 j Pucheran, Archiv. du
Mus., vol. vii, 1854-55, p. 858, pi. xx, fig. 1 ; Hartl., Joum. fur Ornith., vol. iii, 1855, p. 426;
Salvad., Ibis, 1877, p. 148.
R h ip id u r a fu s c o v e n tr is , Frankl., Proe. Zool. Soc., 1881, p. 117; Sykes, Proe. Zool. Soc., 1882,
p. 85; Blyth, Joum. As. Soe., Bengal, vol. xii, p. 935, 1848; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 259,
1846; id., Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Hodgs., p. 93, 1846; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus.
E. Ind. Co., p. 145, 1854; Pucher., Archiv. du Mus., vol. vii, 1854-55, p. 858; Hartl.,
Joum. fur Omith., 1855, p. 426; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 831, 1869; Salvad., Ibis, 1877,
p. 148; Giebel, Ibis, Ornith., 1877, vol. iii, p. 222.
Rhipidura albigula, Hodgs., in Gray’s Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1844.
Leucocerca fuscoventris, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xv, p. 290, 1846; id., Cat. B. Mus.
As. Soc., Bengal, p. 206, 1849; Jerdon, HI. Ind. Om., p. 11, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i,
p. 824, 1850; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 451, 1862; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 100; Cock. & Marsh., Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 352; Hume, Nests and
Eggs, Ind. B., p. 200, 1878; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 404.
leucocerca albicollis, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 108; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc.; Bengal,
vol. xlv, 1876, p. 71.
a. 8 Bkamo, 1st February 1868.
b. ,, 31st January 1875.
c. 8 Ponsee, 28th March 1868.
d. 8 „ 25th April 1868.
e. $ „ 3rd May 1868.
These specimens agree in every particular with Bengal birds, but the wing-
coverts are finely and very obscurely tipped with rufous, and those of the under
surface are the same. The female from Bham6 has a minute rufous spot on two of
the feathers of the great wing-coverts, and there are faint traces of rufous on the
abdomen. These spots occupy the same position as the white spots of H. albifron-
tata, but they are so obscure that they are liable to be overlooked.
The habits of this bird are well described by Dr. Jerdon. I procured the
Bhamd specimens within the stockade, in a dense clump of jack trees, and the
Ponsee birds in a thicket on an old clearing at 3,500 feet.
Family—BRA CHYPOBIILJE.
Genus H y p s i p e t e s , Vigors.
161. H y p s i p e t e s y t j n n a n e n s i s , n. s. Plate L.
Hypsipetes yunnanensis, Anderson, Proe. ZooL'Soc., 1871, p. 213; Swinhoe, t. c., p. 369.
a, 8 Ponsee, Yunnan, 12th March 1868.
Length 1 0 " ; wing 5 " ; tail 4 " '5 0 ; tarsus 0 "* 7 0 ; bill (gape) 1"*16.
Black; head, neck, and interscapular region metallic black; middle of back
and rump dusky black, tinged with cinereous; the feathers margined with cinereous
; upper tail-coverts brownish-black, feebly tinged with cinereous; below dark
cinereous spotted with brownish-black; sides of the abdomen slaty cinereous;
under tail-coverts ashy, margined with white; wing-coverts brownish-black; wings
and tail blackish-brown, the primaries narrowly margined with cinereous; bill,
legs and feet coral red; claws dusky; irides bright reddish-brown.
This bird is intermediate between H. psaroides and S . gemeesa, but is most
closely allied to the latter. I t is also nearly allied to S . nigerrima, Gould, with
which I have compared it. I t is a larger bird than any of the foregoing species.
I t is also a much greyer bird generally than the _ZZ. perniger, Swinhoe, and considerably
larger.
Blyth’s S . concolor is so imperfect in every way that I do not attempt to
supplement his meagre description.
I procured only one specimen of this species on the hill-side at Ponsee on old
forest clearings.
Genus H e m i x t j s , Hodgson.
1 6 2 . H e m i x t j s f l a v a l a , Hodgson.
Hemixos flavala, Hodgs., in Gray’s Zool. Misc., p. 88, 1844; id., Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiv,
p. 572, 1845; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 207, 1849; Bonap. Consp., vol. i,
p. 261, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p, 250, 1854; Jerdon,
B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 80, 1863; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 7; Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 165; Godwin-
Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, 1870, p,'I06; Oates, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 387; Godwin-
Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 78.
Hemipus flavala, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, p. 90, 1846.
Pycnonotus flavala, Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 237, pi. lix, 1847; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 270, 1869,
a. b. 8 Ponsee, 3rd April 1868.
This bird was living in communities on high trees in the outskirts of the village
along with Otocompsa emeria and JPycnonotus nigripileus.
Genus Otocompsa, Cabanis.
163. O t o c o m p s a e m e r i a , Linnaeus,
Lepetit merle hupe de la Chine, Briss. Om., t. ii, p. 255, pi. xxi, fig. 2, 1760,
Lanius jocosus, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 188, 1766; - (ex Briss.)
Ixus jocosus, Sykes, Proe. Zool. Soc., 1832, p. 88; Pears., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. x, p. 640,
1846; Bonap. Consp. Av., t. i, p. 265, 1850; Swinhoe, Proe. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 370.
Pycnonotus jocosus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soe., Bengal, vol. xiv, p. 566, 1845; id., vol. xv, p. 286, 1846 •
Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 237, 1847; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p, 208, (pars),
1849; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 238, 1854; Gray, Handl. B.,
yol. i, p. 271, 1869,
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