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Genus CROSSODERA.

CHARACTERES GENERICI

Ut in Eurylaimo, at formá gracihore, rostro angustiore et compressiusculo, alis brevioribus ; caudá elongatá, et gradatá.

EURYLAIMUS (CROSSODER A) DALHOUSLE, J ames. Frillnecked Eurylaimus.

Cross. capite migro, notd in vertice, alterd in occipite, et terti in mediis alis, splendidé et metallicé ceeruleis, penicillá, elongatá, et flavescenti-viridi, ad utrumque latus occipitis ; facie lined flavescenti-viridi cinctd ; fimbrid plumosd flava alba marginatd a gutture tendente, collumque cingente; corpore intensé-viridi, alarum prünarüs nigrescenti- fuscis, rectricibus caude intermediis viridi. lavatis ; rostro nigrescenti-olivaceo, culmine marginibusque flavis tarsis brunnescenti-olivaceis.

Long. tot. 10 unc. ; rostri, 14; ale, 34; caude, 54; tarsi, 1.

A large patch on the crown of the head, another on the occiput, and a third on the centre of the wing of fine metallie blue; the remainder of the head black, with the exception of a lengthened tuft on each side of the occiput of a yellowish green; a belt of feathers surrounds the face of greenish yellow; a full frill of yellow feathers edged with white extends from the throat and surrounds the neck; general plumage of the body fine deep green; quills blackish brown; two centre tail-feathers slightly washed with blue; bill blackish olive with the culmen and edges yellow; tarsi olive brown.

Eurylaimus Dalhousie, Jameson, in Edin. New Phil. Journ. vol. xviii. p. 389. Royle, Ill. of the Botany, &c. of the Himalaya Mountains, pl. 6.

In the first volume of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, I published figures and a descrip- tion of a new species of Eurylaimus, under the specific appellation of /unatus, and gave a detailed account by way of Synopsis of all the species then on record: since that period the present very beautiful species has been made known to us. The first specimen was brought home by the Countess of Dalhousie, and was soon after dedicated to that lady by Professor Jameson, a figure also from the drawing of a native artist has been published in Mr. Royle’s Illustrations of the Botany, &c., of the Himalaya Mountains above quoted.

We have had opportunities of examining several specimens, all of which were from those elevated and pro- ' ductive regions the Himalaya Mountains.

It is unquestionably the most splendid species of the genus, and differs from all its congeners not only in the more brilliant colouring of its plumage, great elegance of its form, but its larger size, and in its lengthened and graduated tail. “It possesses a beautiful frill of silky feathers, which nearly surrounds the neck ; two tufts also spring from above each eye, which from the more lengthened form of these feathers give the bird the appearance of having horns. These differences from the type of the genus have induced me to assign this bird provisionally as the type of a new genus, which I have named Crossodera, the value of which will however depend upon future observations, and upon other specimens possessing similar characters being discovered.

Nothing whatever is known of the habits and manners of this species, but insects and berries doubtless constitute its natural food.

Habitat. The Himalaya and Nepaul.

The figure is of the natural size.

TODUS MULTICOLOR; (Gould)

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TODUS MULTICOLOR.

Tod. fronte et loro flavis ; corpore superiore plumisque auricularibus viridibus ; ad basin mandibule inferioris lined alba oriente, et per semiunciam, in genis currente ; infra hanc notá ceruled latera colli tegente, gulamque fer cingente ; gulá splendide coccineá ; pectore abdomineque medio cinerascenti-albis, hoc colore in coccineum ad latera transeunte ; crisso sulphureo ; rostro pallidé fusco ; tarsis flavescenti-fuscis.

Long. tot. 31 unc.; rostri, $; ale, 12; caude, 11; tarsi, $.

Forehead and space between the bill and the eye yellow ; all the upper surface and the ear-coverts green ; a stripe of white commences at the base of the lower mandible and extends for half an inch down the neck; this mark is succeeded by a patch of bright blue, which is widened so as nearly to surround the lower part of the throat, which is bright crimson ; chest and centre of the abdomen greyish white, passing into scarlet on the flanks ; under tail-coverts sulphur yellow ; bill light brown ; legs yellowish brown. :

Todus multicolor, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837.

I am unable to state the precise locality from whence this beautiful species was received: it has been for some years in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, and formed a part of the extensive collection pre- sented to that Society by N. A. Vigors, Esq., but has never before been characterized as distinct from Todus viridis. Of this peculiar form, distinguished by a bright scarlet throat, I am acquainted with three distinct species.

The present bird may be distinguished from the others, by the diversity of colours, more particularly by the yellow mark between the bill and the eye, and by the bright blue mark on each side of the neck. It is also smaller than Zodus viridis in all its proportions.

The sexes of this group do not offer any external difference in the markings. Their food consists of insects of various kinds, particularly spiders. "They incubate in holes in the earth. "They inhabit exclu- sively the islands of the West Indies, and the adjacent part of the South American continent.

I have given two figures of the bird of the natural size.

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Jan. vertice, corpore supra et infrà, nec non humeris intenso olivaceo-fuscis ; lined supra-oculari nigrá, notá infra-oculari, plumisque auricularibus sanguineis. Ale primarüs secundarüsque externé coccineo marginatis, illis per totam longi- tudinem, his per dimidium apicale solummodo, ad basin namque cinereis nigrisque ; pogoniis omnium internis nigrescenti- fuscis, rectricibus caude suprà intensé fuscis ; at infrà, et ad apicem, eque ac crissa, igneo-aurantiacis, apicibus caude pallidioribus. | Rostro pedibusque intense fuscis.

Long. tot. 81 wnc.; rostri, 1; ale, 31; caude, 4; tarsi, 13.

Crown of the head, all the upper and under surface, including the shoulders, dark olive brown; over each eye a stripe of black; feathers beneath the eye and the ear-coverts blood red; primaries and secondaries margined externally with rich scarlet, the former for the whole of their length, the latter for half their length from the tip, their basal portions being grey and black, and forming a bar half across the wing ; the internal webs ‘of all these feathers blackish brown ; tail deep brown above; beneath, together with the under tail-coverts and the tips of all the tail-feathers, fiery orange, the tips being the palest; bill and feet deep brown.

lanthocincla phenicea, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837.

Tue high lands of India would appear to constitute nearly the sole habitat of the peculiar race of Thrushes to which I have given the name of Janthocincla. A single specimen of the present beautiful species formed part of a collection made in the Himalaya, and is in all probability unique. It has all the peculiar markings of the wings and tail, which is found to adorn the typical examples of the genus ; but in no species that I have yet had an opportunity of examining has the colouring been so vivid, nor with so bright a hue of the under surface of the tail; while the extremely short, round, and concave form of the wings is in strict accordance with the type of the genus, viz. JantAocincla squamata.

Habitat Himalaya Mountains.

The Plate represents the bird of the natural size in two different positions.

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CALLIOPE PECTORALIS, Gould.

Call. vertice, corporeque summo, intense cinereis ; lined alba latd a naribus supra oculos transeunte ; loro, lined infra- ocular, plumis auricularibus, pectoreque migerrümis ; gutture splendidé coccineo ; alis fuscis ; ventre, crissoque albis ; lateribus cinereis ; rectricibus caude duabus intermediis intensé fuscis, reliquis mediam partem fuscam, basalem, apica- lemque albas habentibus ; rostro pedibusque fuscis.

Long. tot. 51 unc.; rostri, 2; ale, 22; caude, 24; tarsi, li.

Crown of the head and all the upper surface deep grey ; a broad stripe of white passes from the nostrils over each eye; space between the bill and the eye, line under the eye, ear-coverts and chest deep black; throat rich scarlet; wings brown; belly and under tail-coverts white; flanks grey ; two centre tail-feathers deep brown ; the remainder brown in the centre with their basal half and tips white; bill and legs brown.

Calliope pectoralis, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837.

One of the few genera I found it necessary to characterize during the progress of my work on the Birds of Europe was that of Calhope, which was established for the reception of the Accentor Calliope of Temminck, to which genus, in my opinion, that bird had no immediate relation, and I conceive that the propriety of this separation is strengthened by the recent addition of the present elegant species, which has lately been sent from the Himalaya. One of the most important differences in this new species consists in the presence of the white markings of the basal portion of the tail-feathers, a circumstance which, together with some other particulars, tends much to show its close relationship to the birds forming the Sazicoline tribe, while in the markings of its throat it has a near affinity to the Blue-throated Warbler, genus Cyanecula, Driss.

I possess a single specimen of this beautiful bird, which is the only one I have ever seen.

Habitat Himalaya Mountains.

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Genus MICROURA, Gould.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Rostrum longitudine caput equans, feró rectum, acuminatum, gracile et lateralitér compressum, gonyde leviter incurvato. Nares basales lineares, et operculo tecte. Setze basales desunt. Ales brevissime, molles, concave, et rotundate, pri- mariis, quartis, quintis, et sextis longissimis et inter se qualibus. Cauda condita, mollis. — ''arsi elongati, graciles, leves ; digito posteriore, cum ungue, magno et robusto, digitumque medium quoad longitudinem equante ; digitis ante- rioribus gracilibus, et unguibus parvis instructis ; digitis lateralibus brevioribus et qualibus. Plume corporis, dense, molles, et sericeg. Color fuscus.

MICROURA SQUAMAT A, Gould.

Scaly-breasted Little-tail.

Mic. corpore superiore intensé fusco levitér olivaceo tincto ; lateribus capitis flavescente fusco guttatis nec non tectricibus alarum corporisque lateribus, at pallidius ; gulà, pectore, abdomineque fuscis singulis plumis albido marginatis, squamas- que fingentibus, rostro intense fusco, tarsis pedibusque brunnescenti-carneis.

In altero specimine margines plumarum gutturalium et abdominalium, qui in priore albidi, fulvum colorem ostendunt.

Long. tot. 32 unc.; rostri, $; ale, 92; tarsi, 1.

General colour of the upper surface deep brown, slightly tinged with olive; sides of the head spotted with yellowish brown, as are also some of the wing-coverts and the flanks, but more faintly ; feathers of the throat, chest, and belly dark brown edged with greyish white, giving to these parts a scaly appearance; bill dark brown; feet and legs light flesh brown.

In a second specimen the colouring is precisely the same, with the exception that those parts of the under- surface which are greyish white in the above are of a rich tawny brown.

Microura squamata, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837.

Tuis curious little bird is almost tailless, this organ being so slightly developed that it consists of merely the rudiments of a few weak downy feathers scarcely one-fourth of an inch in length. Besides my own specimens, which were received from the Himalaya, I have examined two others from Nepal, all of which were alike in the rudimentary nature of the tail-feathers ; I am consequently led to believe that this character is permanent and have named it accordingly. "The accompanying plate represents the bird in two different states of plumage, which in all probability are indicative of a difference of sex, as both specimens appear to have arrived at maturity and to have been preserved at the same time. The great length of its tarsi, and the rounded aud. concave form of its wings, at once indicate its partiality to the ground. Its plumage 1s thick, soft, and silky, a covering admirably adapted for an inhabitant of dense underwood, beneath the canopy of which it in all probability is an habitual resident.

The specimens from which the figures are taken have lately been added to the fine collection of the Zoolo- gical Society of London.

Habitat, the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal.

The figures are of the natural size.

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Genus PARADOXORNIS, Gould.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Rostrum altitudine longitudinem superans, ad basin vibrissis instructum : mandibulà superiore valdé compressa ; culmine acuto, valdé arcuato ; tomio edentulo, apicem versus valdé incurvo, ad basin producto: mandibulà inferiore ad basin lata, robustá ; tomio emarginato. Nares parve, rotundate, pone rostrum site. Alee breves, rotundate ; remigibus quartá, quintd, et sexta longioribus. Cauda mediocris, gradata. Tarsi robusti, leves. Pedes magni, subtàs lati : digitis magnis ; halluce ungueque postico maximis. Ptilosis ampla, laxa.

PARADOXORNIS FLAVIROSTRIS, Goud.

Yellow-billed Paradoxornis.

Par. arenaceo-brunneus, subtüs pallidior ; capite nucháque rufo-brunneis ; auribus partim aterrimis ; facie guttureque albis nigro varus, pectore nigro ; rostris splendidé aurantiaco-flavis ; pedibus cerulescentibus. Long. tot. 8 unc. ; rostri, 1; ale, 31; caude, 44; tarsi, 11.

Crown of the head, and back of the neck rich rufous brown; all the upper surface, wings, and tail sandy brown ; face and throat white, mottled with black ; part of the ear-coverts jet black ; upper part of the chest greyish white clouded with black; under surface pale sandy brown; bill rich orange yellow ; tarsi and feet bluish.

Paradowornis flavirostris, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part IV. 1836. p. 17 ; and Magazine of Zool. and Bot. vol. 1. p. 62.

In the year 1836 I procured a single example of this anomalous bird, together with the Ewrylaimus Dalhousie, and several other rare Himalayan species of a person who was not aware of the precise locality they were from. I believe that my specimen, which has been since added to the collection of the Zoological Society, is quite unique, and that no other bird even approaching it in form has yet been discovered: in its soft lax plumage, rounded wing, and tail, and powerful foot and tarsi, it offers a striking resemblance to the members of the genus Pomatorhinus ; its arched and compressed bill, however, at once distinguishes it from that form : the situation of the nostrils, which are behind the bill, together with the stiff hairs which spring from the base of this organ, also serve to distinguish it from the Pomatorhini; but a knowledge of its habits and the examination of other allied species, which in all probability are yet to be discovered, will alone enable the ornithologist to determine its real situation in the natural system. The figures are of the natural size.

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Genus SELENIDERA.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Rostrum brevius et crassius quàm in. genere Pteroglosso, nec non cauda brevior est ratione ad magnitudinem corporis habita ; inter sexus color differt, mare caput pectusque nigra habente ; his partibus foemind castaneis ; plume auri- culares flave ; lunulaque flava cervicem imum cingit. Ad hanc notam titula generica refert.

PTEROGLOSSUS (Selenidera) GOULDII.

Piero. summo capite, nuchá, gutture, pectore, abdomineque nigris ; plumis auricularibus aurantiaco-flavis ad apicem strami- neis ; fascid semilunari nuchah flava ; dorso, alis, caudáque olivaceo-fuscis ; hujus rectricibus sex intermediis apice castaneo ; lateribus aurantiaco-flavis ; femoribus castaneis, crisso coccineo, cute circa oculos viridi ; rostri mandibulá superiore migrá, apicem versus lividé corned, apice albo, fascidque angustá albá ad basin; mandibulá inferiore albá fascia nigra, apiceque lividé corneo, pedibus plumbeis.

Femina differt partibus, que, in mare nigra, in ila castaneis, et lateribus plumisque auricularibus pallidioribus.

Long. tot. 11 wnc.; rostri, 91; ale, 5; caude, 42; tarsi, 14.

Mars. Crown of the head, back of the neck, throat, chest, and centre of the abdomen jet black; ear-coverts orange yellow, passing into fine straw yellow at the apex; across the top of the back a semilunar mark of pale yellow ; back, wings, and tail dark olive, the six centre feathers of the latter tipped with chestnut brown ; flanks deep orange yellow; thighs chestnut; under tail-coverts scarlet, bare space round the eye green; upper mandible black, passing into greenish horn colour towards the tip; the latter and a narrow line surrounding the base white; under mandible white for three-fourths of its length from the base ; an irregular band of black separates this from the tip which is white with a tinge of olive; feet lead colour.

FEMALE. Differs from the male in having all those parts which are black in that sex of a fine chestnut; and in the flanks and ear-coverts being of a paler tint.

Pteroglossus Gouldu, Natt. in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837.

Tuis species of Aracari having been made known to science since the completion of my Monograph of the Family, I take this opportunity of publishing figures of both sexes from specimens presented to the Zoological Society of London by M. Natterer, who procured them in the Brazils on the banks of the River Madeira, and who has been pleased to name them after myself at a meeting of the above Society on the 11th of April 1837. In its affinity the Pteroglossus Gould? is very nearly allied to the Péeroglossus maculirostris, but differs from that species in being considerably less in all its proportions, in the single large patch of black on the upper mandible (which in Péero. macuhrostris is regularly marked with transverse oval-shaped spots), and in the more intense orange colouring of the sides of the body: I may add that these differences are found to be constant in the several examples of this species contained in M. Natterer’s collection.

In the Introduction to my Monograph of this interesting group, the members of the family are thrown into sections, and I am now inclined to add to the best marked of these sections a generic, or at least a subgeneric name. The genus Aulacorhynchus having been very generally adopted, I take this opportunity of making a further subdivision of the family by separating from the true Pterog/oss: (of which Ptero. aracari and Ptero. pluricinctus are typical examples, ) the following species, viz. Pteroglossus Gouldii, Ptero. maculirostris, Ptero. Nattereri, Ptero. Reinwardsu, Ptero. Langsdorffi, and Ptero. Culik, under the generic name of Selenidera. The members of this minor group differ not only in the modifications of their structure, but are adorned with a different style of plumage, the sexes offering a decided contrast in their colouring, which is not the case with the true Pterogloss:.

They are distinguished by yellow ear-coverts, and a lunar-shaped band of the same colour across the lower part of the neck, to which latter peculiarity our subgeneric title alludes. The male also has the head, chest, and centre of the abdomen black, while the same parts in the female are chestnut brown. :

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Num. capite, gulá colloque superiore plumis egentibus, pilis attamen migris adspersis ad collum longioribus ; nuchá plumis lanuginosis fuscis crebré vestitd; collo inferiore plumis elongatis lanceolatisque ornato, singulis strigam albam centralem ostendentibus ; hanc lined sordide. nigra et albo irroratá, cingente, margineque exteriore ceruleo ; plumis dorsi superioris has simulantibus, latioribus attamen, strigá alba centrali angustiore, guttisque parvulis albis in lineam nigram oblique currentibus ; alarum. tectricibus, dorso, wropygio, caudá, tectricibus caude, crissoque, cum femoribus, nigrescenti-fuscis, guttis rotundatis crebré ornatis singulis migro. circumdatis, intervallis guttis parvulis sordidé albis irroratis ; primariis fuscis, pogonis exterms apicibusque guttis sordidé albis ornatis; secundariis nigrescenti-fuscis, pogoniis externis lineis albis imperfectis tribus longitudinalitér notatis ; pogoniis internis seriem triplicem guttarum albarum ostendentibus ; pectore lateribusque abdominis metallic ceruleis ; abdomine medio nigro ; lateribus sordidó rosaceis guttis albis nigro-cinctis crebré notatis ; rostro sordidé rubro ; pedibus fuscis.

Long. tot. 18 wne. ; rostri, 2; ale, 11; caude, 52; tarsi, 33.

Head, throat, and upper part of the throat destitute of feathers but besprinkled with hairs of a black colour, which are longest on the neck ; nape thickly clothed with short velvet-like brown feathers; lower part of the neck ornamented with long lanceolate and flowing feathers, which have a broad stripe of white down the centre, to which on each side succeeds a line of dull black, finely dotted with white, and margined with fime blue; feathers of the anterior part of the back of a similar form, but broader and with a narrower line of white down the centre, and with the minute white dots disposed in irregular and obliquely transverse lines ; wing- coverts, back, rump, tail, upper and under tail-coverts and thighs blackish brown, ornamented with numerous round and irregular spots of white surrounded with circles of black, the intermediate spaces filled with very minute dots of dull white; primaries brown with light shafts and spots of brownish white on the outer web, and the tips of the inner; secondaries brownish black, with three imperfect lines of white disposed lengthwise on the outer web, and three rows of irregular spots of white on the inner web ; breast and sides of the abdo- men beautiful metallic blue; centre of the abdomen black; flanks dull pink with numerous spots of white surrounded with circles of black ; bill brownish red; feet brown.

Numida vulturina, Hardw., in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part II. 1834. p. 52.

Tue Guinea Fowls, as they are familiarly termed, constitute one of the most isolated groups among the Gallinacee ; five or six species are now known, all of which are from Africa.

Independently of the chaste and delicately spotted markings which adorn the whole of this tribe, the neck of the present species is ornamented by a ruff of lanceolate flowing plumes, which new feature, as well as the head being entirely devoid of fleshy appendages, render it conspicuously different from allits congeners. We are not able to furnish any account of its history, further than that our figure is taken from an example, in all probability unique, forming a part of the collection of the United Service Museum, to which it was presented by Captain Probyn. It is certainly one of the most noble birds that has been discovered for some years, and we indulge in the hope that the period may not be far distant when we shall become better acquainted with the species, and that living individuals may even become denizens of our menageries and farmyards, where it would doubtless thrive equally as well as its allied congener, which is so familiar to all and whose original stock is still found in a wild state in the part of Africa which the present lovely species is supposed to inhabit. ,

Habitat Western Africa.

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Ort. capite, nuchá, pectoreque intensé cinereis ; plumis duabus gracilibus et subpendentibus e vertice nigris ; gulá intense castaneá ad latera lined albá circumdat, infra oculos nota nigra ; loro sordide albo ; corpore superiore olivaceo-fusco ; rectricibus caude fuscis nigro irroratis ; ale primariis brunneis, pogontis externis, pallidioribus ; abdominis lateribus intense castaneis ; suprà lined albá marginatis ; infrà fasciis nigris atque albis ornatis ; abdomine medio crissoque castaneis ; rostro nigro ; pedibus pallidi-brunnescentibus.

Long. tot. 92 unc. ; rostri, 2; ale 51; caude, 31; tarsi, 14.

Crown of the head, back of the neck, and chest deep ash grey ; a plume consisting of two long slender arched feathers rising from the vertex of the head, black ; throat deep chestnut, bounded on the sides by a line of white, and immediately under the eye by a small patch of black ; space between the bill and the eye dirty white; allthe upper surface olive brown ; tail-feathers brown freckled with a darker tint; primaries brown margined with a lighter tint ; sides and abdomen deep chestnut, the outer line of feathers above being edged with white; on each side of the abdominal line the feathers are strongly and elegantly marked with alternate bands of black and white.

The female or young male differs from the adult male in being less in size, m having the plumage less bright, and in having the plumes on the crown of the head considerably shorter.

Ortyx plumifera, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. 1837.

Havine been always particularly interested with this New World group, it was with almost inexpressible pleasure that I bailed the arrival of this lovely species of Ortyx, three specimens of which formed a part of the ornithological collection of the late Mr. David Douglas, which collection was forwarded to England shortly after his lamentable death and was finally consigned to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London ; and it is to the Council of that Society that I am indebted for permission to figure this species in the present work. :

Had the gentleman who procured this valuable addition to our ornithological stores been permitted to return to his native land, we should doubtless have been put in possession of some details respecting its history, which deficiency I am unable to supply; and in all probability a considerable period will elapse before another equally intrepid traveller and enthusiastic naturalist will, solely for the love of science, risk his life in pursuit of the unknown treasures of the little-explored regions of California, of which this bird is a native.

The plumed crests with which all the members of this group are ornamented is in no instance so much developed as in the present species, in which this peculiar character would appear to have reached its maximum ; and if we may be allowed to conjecture, other species will yet be discovered in which the crest- feathers will not be so long nor assume so narrow and lanceolate a form.

In their habits, manners, and food the members of this group closely assimilate to the Quails and Partridges of the Old World, but differ from them in possessing the power of perching on trees, which they are con- stantly in the habit of doing.

Habitat California.

The figures are of the natural size.

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CURSORIUS RUFUS, Gouwid.

Curs. fronte castaneo-rufo ; occipite griseo, fascid albá cincto ; hdc suprà et infra lined angustá nigrá marginata ; nuchá rufescente ; corpore summo rufescenti-brunneo ; gulá albidd ; pectore pallidé-fulvo, hoc colore in fasciam ventralem nigram mergente ; abdomine posteriore, crissoque albis ; remigibus primarüs nigris ; secundariis albis ; prymno rectri- cibusque caude ad basin brunneo-griseis, harum duabus intermediis nota nigra apicali, externis feré albis, reliquis plis minüsve ad apicem albis, nec non nigrá maculá griseum colorem cingente ; rostro nigro ; digitis migrescentibus ; tarsis

albido-flavis. Long. tot. 9 unc. ; rostri, 11; ale, 51; caude, 2; tarsi, 3.

Forehead chestnut red; occiput grey, bounded by a line of white, which is externally margined with black; back of the neck and all the upper surface and breast rufous brown, passing into black on the centre of the belly ; throat white ; hinder part of the belly and vent white; primaries black; secondaries tipped with white, form- ing a bar across the wing; bill black; tarsi yellowish white; toes darker.

Cursorius rufus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part IV. 1836, p. 81.

Tuts new species of Cursorius is a native of the islands of the Indian Ocean, but from what particular locality I have not been able to ascertain. In size it is directly intermediate between Cursorius Temminckü and Cursorius Asiaticus, to both of which species it is very closely allied; but it differs from either in the rich rufous colouring of the upper surface of the body, in the triangular mark of grey on the occiput, in the band of white which passes obliquely across the wings, and in not possessing a band of white across the rump, as is the case with Cursorius Asiaticus.

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Genus AMBLYPTERUS, Gould.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Rostrum debile et elongatum. Nares elevate et rotundate. Rictus setis robustis instructus, rostro longioribus. Ale truncate ; remigibus externis sextis feré aequalibus et falcatis ; remigibus secundo, tertio, quarto ad externum pogonium emarginatis, septimo, octavo, nono ad apices elongatis et attenuatis, decimo abrupté brevi; secondarüs brevissimis, rotundatis, tertiarüisque elongatis, conditis. Cauda brevissima et quadrata. — Pedes ambulatorii. Tarsi elongati, graciles, squamis indistinctis antic et postice fasciati ; digito intermedio longissimo et gracillimo ; digitis lateralibus brevibus et equalibus ; digito postico parvo, debili et libero ; unguibus elongatis, ungue medio pectinato.

AMBLYPTERUS ANOMALUS, Goud.

Amb. summo capite, corpore suprà, et alis cinereo-fuscis, singulis plumis nigro irregularitér sparsis et maculatis ; primariis nigris, ad bases rubrescenti-cervinis, ad apices albis ; secondariis cervinis, migrescenti-fusco irregulariter. fasciatis ; rectricibus caude cervinis, nigrescenti-fusco irregulariter fasciatis et maculatis ; duabus centralibus cinereo-fuscis ; gutture, pectore, et abdomine ad partem superiorem nigrescenti-fuscis, singulis plumis cervino maculatis ; abdomine imo pallidé cervino, singulis plumis nigrescenti-fusco transversim fasciatis ; rostro fusco ; pedibus pallide fuscis.

Long. tot. 62 unc. ; rostri, 1; ale, 53.; caude, 3; tarsi, 2

À pale fawn-coloured stripe from the nostrils over each eye; crown of the head, back, and wings greyish brown ; the centre of each feather irregularly dashed and spotted with black; primaries black, with the basal portion reddish fawn colour, and the tips white; secondaries fawn colour, irregularly barred with blackish brown, the tips being paler; two centre tail-feathers greyish brown, irregularly barred and speckled with blackish brown; the remainder of the feathers fawn colour, irregularly barred with blackish brown, and speckled on the intermediate spaces with the same colour, the whole largely tipped with light fawn; throat, chest, and upper part of the abdomen blackish brown, each feather on the chest having a longitudinal stripe of fawn down the centre, the whole minutely speckled with fawn; lower part of the abdomen light fawn colour, each feather transversely barred with blackish brown; bill brown ; feet light brown.

Amblypterus anomalus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837, p. 105.

A SINGLE specimen of this truly anomalous Goat-sucker forms part of the collection of the British Museum ; it is the only one I have ever seen, and is, I believe, entirely new to science.

The only information I have been able to obtain respecting it is, that Mr. J. E. Gray purchased the speci- men above mentioned from a collection of skins at Liverpool, which were said to he from Demerara.

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Genus NYCTIDROMUS, Gould.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Rostrum mediocre, ad basin latissimum, hiatu amplissimo, rictu. setis elongatis instructo. Nares sub-basales, elevate, transversim subovales, aperte. Ale mediocres, remige tertio ceteris prestante. Cauda elongata, ampla, subrotundata. Tarsi nudi, elongati, anticà scutellati. Digitorum externus et internus breves, intermedius elongatus, ungue pectinato ; digitus posticus liber, parvus, et ungue parvulo instructus.

NYCTIDROMUS DERBYANJUS, Gould.

Nyct. fronte, vertice, nucha, et regione interscapulari cinerescentibus, minutissime nigro punctatis ; vertice et nuchd lined irregulari nigrá ornatis ; genis, plumis auricularibus, mentoque rufo-fuscis, hóc obscure nigro fasciato, lined cerviná ab angulo oris ; ale tectricibus rufo, cervino, nigroque ornatis ; primariis ad basin nigrescentibus, rufo fasciatis, in medio albis, ad apicem migrescenti-fuscis ; secondarüs rufo fuscoque fasciatis ; scapularibus rufis, nigrescenti punctatis et lineatis necnon cervino-marginatis ; dorso imo, rectricibusque caude duabus intermediis sordide cervinis, nigro pun- ctatis, et obscure fasciatis; rectrice externá utrinque nigrá, intüs albo marginatá ; reliquis albis; corpore subtis cervino, fusco fasciato ; pectore superiore plagá alba semidivisà ornato ; rostro pedibusque brunneis.

. Long. tot. 12 unc. ; rostri, 12; ale, 7 ; caude, 7; tarsi, 14.

Forehead, top of the head, back of the neck, and space between the shoulders pale grey, minutely pencilled with black, and with an irregular mark of black from the top of the head along the back of the neck ; sides of the face, ear-coverts, and chin rufous brown, the latter obscurely barred with black, a stripe of buff running from the angle of the mouth; wing-coverts mottled rufous, buff and black, each feather largely tipped with buff ; base of the primaries black, banded with rufous, to which succeeds a central band of white, the remainder being brownish black; secondaries alternately with brown and rufous; scapularies rufous brown, freckled with black, bounded externally with blackish brown, and margined with buff; lower part of the back and central tail-feathers dirty buff, obscurely freckled and barred with blackish brown; outer tail-feather on each side black, with a white internal margin ; the remaining tail-feathers white, under surface buff, barred with brown ; a white semidivided gorget across the chest; bill and feet brown.

Nyctidromus Derbyanus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

Tse members of this group are confined to South America; they run much on the ground, and are remark- able for the great dilatation of the base of the under maxillary bones. There are at least ten species of this peculiar form, among which has hitherto reigned the greatest confusion. The present bird, which I have reason to believe has been confounded with other proximate species, I venture to distinguish by the title of Derbyanus.

The figure is of the natural size, and is taken from a fine example kindly lent to me by the Earl of Derby.

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Genus SEMEIOPHORUS, Gould.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Characteres ut in genere Macrodipteryx dicto, nisi quod remiges sextus, septimus, et octavus gradatim elongati fiunt, usque ad nonum, qui his, sicut vexillum, prestat, barbasque fert per totam longitudinem.

SEMEIOPHORUS (MACRODIPTERY X?) VEXILLARIUS, Gould.

Semeioph. capite, alarum tectricibus, dorso, scapularibusque longioribus nigris, cervino, rufoque adspersis ; nuchá, torque, castaneo ornatá ; scapularibus brevioribus nigrescenti-fuscis rufo irroratis, et extis cervino late marginatis ; alis nigre- scenti-fuscis, primariis et ad basin, et apicem, secondariisque ad apicem albis ; caudd nigrescente, fusco, et cervino, necnon fasciis irregularibus nigris ornatá ; mento cinereo, et fusco, picto; qulá sagittam albam ferente ; pectore rufo,

Juscoque ornato; abdomine cinerescenti-albo, fasciis nigrescentibus angustis crebré notato ; rostro pedibusque brun- neis.

Long. tot. 10 unc.; rostri, 1; ale, 28; caude, 5%; tarsi, 1.

Head, wing-coverts, back, and the longest of the scapularies black, mottled with buff and rufous; round the back of the neck an irregular collar of reddish chestnut; shortest of the scapularies brownish black sprinkled with rufous, and with a broad stripe of buff along their outer margin; wings blackish brown, the base and tips of the primaries and the tips of the secondaries white; tail mottled blackish brown and reddish buff, crossed by large blotches of blackish brown, forming a series of irregular bars; chin mottled grey and brown; in the centre of the throat an arrow-head-shaped mark of pure white; remainder of the throat and chest mottled rufous and dark brown ; abdomen greyish white, crossed by numerous narrow bars of brownish black, fading off into greyish white without bars on the vent and under tail-coverts; bill and feet light brown.

Semevophorus (Macrodipteryx ?) vexillarius, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

Tue general structure of this species is precisely the same as that of the Macrodipteryx Africanus, Swains.

and it doubtless represents that bird on the opposite side of the African continent; still, as the form of the

wing is very different, I have ventured to propose for it a separate generic station, leaving future research to

prove whether I have taken a correct view of the subject. Little is known respecting this singular species further than that it inhabits the islands lying between those

of Bourbon and Madagascar ; that it is numerous on the shores of the Red Sea and in the Island of Scutra. The figure is of the natural size.

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Genus LYNCORNIS, Gould.

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Caput. penicillis elongatis (quasi auribus) instructum. Rostrum depressum et perdebile; rictu amplissimo, infra oculos | tendente, setisque carente ; naribus basalibus rotundatis, plumisque frontis obtectis. Ale perlonge, primariis rigidis, remige secundo longissimo. Cauda mediocris, equalis, et, (sicut ale,) notà alba carens. Tarsi breves, robusti, anticó, plumis ex parte, tecti. Digiti breves, ad basin membraná conjuncti, laterales equales ; intermedii unguis pectinatus.

LYNCORNIS CERVINICEPS, Gould.

Lync. vertice pallide cervino, minute nigro fasciato, plumis nonnullis notis nigris in medio ornatis ; genis, plumisque auricu- laribus castaneis, nigro crebré adspersis ; penicillis capitis nigris ; gulá pectoreque nigrescenti-fuscis ; lined albá inter has partes dividente, dilutiore ad nucham, et in cervinum transeunte ; abdomine cervino, plumis ad basin nigris ; dorso alisque, cervino, castaneo, nigroque variegatis ; primariis nigrescenti-fuscis, castaneo interrupte fasciatis ; caudá nigre- scenti-fuscá, cervino adspersá, et interrupte, et late fasciatá.

Long. tot. 234 une.; rostri, 1$; ale, 19; caude, 71; tarsi, 3.

Crown of the head light buff, minutely barred with black, several of the feathers having central spots of the same colour; sides of the face and ear-coverts chestnut, largely freckled with black; egrets black; throat and chest blackish brown, with a line of white dividing the chest and throat, and expanding upon the back of the neck, where it deepens into fawn colour ; abdomen and under-surface buff, with the basal portion of each feather black; back and wings mottled with buff, chestnut, and black, the buff predominating along the scapularies and down the centre of the wing; primaries blackish brown, with interrupted bands of chestnut ;

tail blackish brown, with four or five broad, irregular bands of buff, the black interspaces marbled with buff ; bill and feet brown.

Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

I nave never seen more than a single specimen of this truly beautiful Goat-sucker ; and this I received seven years ago; it was said to be a native of China or the adjacent islands. I have selected it as the type of the genus Lyncornis, a minor group among the Caprimulgide, conspicuous for their large eyes, lengthened egrets, and great powers of flight. The analogy of this group to that of the horned owls is too palpable to escape observation; the irides of the members of this genus will in all probability prove to be either yellow or hazel. The species described above is in the collection of the Zoological Society.

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Lync. vertice intense castaneo, nigro irrorato, necnon parce maculato ; guld, facie, plumisque auricularibus nigrescenti- fuscis, castaneo irroratis ; inter gulam. pectusque annulo, anticà albo, apud nucham in cervinum transeunte; dorso, pectoreque saturate nigrescenti-fuscis, castaneo obscure notatis ; abdominis plumis saturate nigrescenti-fuscis, cervino large marginatis ; scapularibus cervinis nigro irregularitér ornatis ; alis saturate nigrescenti-fuscis, fasciis castaneis Sere obsoletis notatis ; caudá nigrescenti-fuscá, cervino irroratá et fasciatá ; rostro pedibusque fuscis.

Long. tot. 12 unc. ; rostri, 14; ale, 10%; tail, 71; tarsi, 5.

Crown of the head deep chestnut, minutely freckled with black, several of the feathers having a central spot of the same colour; throat, face, and ear-coverts blackish brown, minutely freckled with deep chestnut brown; a ring of white separates the throat and chest and passes into buff on the back of the neck; back and chest deep blackish brown, with obscure marks of chestnut; the feathers of the abdomen and under surface deep blackish brown, largely margined with buff; scapularies fawn colour, irregularly marked and spotted with black; wing deep blackish brown, with nearly obsolete bands of chestnut ; tail deep blackish brown, freckled and banded with deep fawn colour; bill and feet brown.

Caprimulgus macrotis, Vigors, in Proc. Comm. of Sci. and Corr. of Zool. Soc. Part I. 1830 —31, p. 97.

Tus species was first described by Mr. Vigors several years since, as the Caprimulgus macrotis. It was received from Manilla, and was presented by Hamilton Lindsay, Esq., to the Zoological Society, of whose collection it now forms a part. The specimen from which my drawing was taken is the only example that has come under my notice ; it is less in all its proportions than Lyncornis cerviniceps, and also differs in the much darker tints of its plumage, particularly on the crown of the head, back and chest.

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LYNCORNIS TEMMINCKII, Gowa.

Tyne. vertice cinerescenti-fusco, nigro exilitér fasciato, et apud plumarum apicem maculato ; gulá castaneo nigroque fasciatá ; annulo collum. circumdante, anticé albo, posticé cervino ; capitis penicillis, brevibus, nigris ; pectore migrescente, castaneo maculato ; dorso, castaneo, cervino, maculisque nigris, ornato ; remigibus alarum nigrescenti-fuscis, castaneo obsolete fasciatis ; abdomine pallidé cervino, plumis singulis ad basin nigris ; caudá fusca, castaneo interrupte fasciatá ; rostro pedibusque fuscis. ;

Long. tot. 104 une.; rostri, 11; ale, 8; caude, 54; tarsi, 1.

Crown of the head greyish brown, minutely barred with black, many of the feathers having a black spot at the apex; throat barred with rich chestnut and black; round the neck a collar, which is white anteriorly, and buff posteriorly ; egrets short and black; chest blackish, freckled with chestnut ; back ornamented with tints of chestnut and fawn, spotted and irregularly freckled with black; quills blackish brown, with nearly obsolete bars of chestnut; under-surface pale buff mingled with black, which latter colour occupies the base of each feather; tail brownish black, with interrupted bars of chestnut; bill and feet brown.

Lyncornis Temminckii, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

Tuis species I had named Lyncornis collaris in my MS., and my friend M. Temminck has recently sent me a specimen under the name of iméerbis; now as the term co//aris is applicable to every species of the genus, and the term zmberbis equally so, I have considered it best to rescind both these specific appellations, and to substitute in their place that of Z'emminckii, thus dedicating the species to my excellent friend.

This appears to be a much more abundant species than the two preceding ; I have several examples in my own collection. It is a native of Borneo.

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Genus BATRACHOSTOMUS, Gould. -

CHARACTERES GENERICI.

Rostrum latius, ac magis depressum quam in genere Podargus dicto, (cui generi hoc approwimat) culmine minis cari- nato. Nares tubulares, transversim posite et penicillis tecte. — Oculi superne cute nudá late marginati, et cristulis plumosis, alterad superciliari, alterd infra-oculari, posticé spectantibus instructi, Ale quam in Podargo longiores, remigibus quarto, quinto, sexto et septimo longissimis et inter se feró equalibus. Cauda mediocris et rotundata. Tarsi digitique non tantum breviores sed debiliores quam in Podargo ; tarsi anticó per dimidium plumosi.

BATRACHOSTOMUS AURITUS.

Mas. Batr. capite dorsoque superiore castaneis, lineis, guttisque irregularibus cervinis, fuscisque, ornatis ; torque nuchali cervino ; tectricibus ale saturaté castaneis, nigro, notisque triangularibus stramineis ornatis ; primarüs saturaté fuscis, rufo wregulariter fasciatis apicibus rufis ; scapularibus ruféscentibus, singulis plumis nigro ad apicem guttatis; se- condarüs caudáque rufo-castaneis, lineis pallidioribus nigrescente marginatis, fasciatis ; fasciis caude nigro adspersis ; dorso imo fusco, rufo nigroque fasciato, cristuld superciliari fusco, stramineoque pictá ; cristulá infra-oculari rufescente, plumarum marginibus externis. stramineis ; guld pectoreque rufo-fuscis, illd, colore pallidiore, necnon, nigro, fasciatá ; hoc stramineo fasciato ; abdomine cervino, colore pallidiore fasciato, plumis nonnullis nigro ad apicem quttatis ; rostro ad basin flavo, ad apicem rufo-fusco ; pedibus aurantiacis.

Fam. ven Mas Jun. Differt solummodo plumis plus griseo lavatis, precipué scapularibus, torque nuchali pallidiore, plu- marum. apicibus cervinis nigro irregulariter cinctis. Long. tot. 16 wnc.; rostri ab angulo oris ad apicem, 21, latitudo, 22; ale, 111; caude, 81; tarsi, 2.

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FEMALE or Youne Marz. Less in size; similar in the character of its colouring, but the whole of the upper and under surface strongly tinged with grey, especially on the scapularies ; the nuchal collar much paler, with the cream-coloured tips of the feathers bounded both above and below with a broad irregular line of black.

Podargus auritus, App. to Mem. of Sir T. S. Raffles, p. 652. Vig. & Horsf. in Griffith’s Transl. of Cuv. An. Kingd., vol. 2. Pl. IV. p. 114.

We are indebted to the researches of the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles for our knowledge of this very singular species. It is a native of Sumatra, Malacca, &c., and was first described in the Appendix to Lady Raffles’ Memoir of her distinguished husband ; but nothing whatever is known as to its habits or economy.

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NYCTIBIUS PECTORALIS, Gouwid.

Nyct. alis caudáque haud albo fasciatis ; fronte nigrescenti-fusco ; plumis nonnullis, et precipue cistulis superciliaribus badio alboque terminatis ; muchá dorsoque cinerescenti-fuscis, lineis nigris ornatis ; scapularibus cinereo, fusco, nigro- que pictis; humeris intense fuscis ; vittd nigra a mandibuld inferiore ad plumas auriculares excurrente ; gulá, corporeque subtüs cinereo brunneoque pictis, pectore nigro largé notato ; abdomineque nigro irregulariter fasciato ; primariis intis fuscis, irregularitér brunneo fasciatis notatisque, externe cinereo fuscoque fasciatis. Cauda fuscá, nigrescente et cinereo intermixtis transversim fasciatd ; rostro pedibusque nigrescentibus.

Long. tot. 121 unc. ; rostri, 14; ale, 92; caude, 71; tarsi, 11.

Wings and tail without any large white bar; forehead blackish-brown, some of the feathers slightly tipped with buff and white, particularly those of the elevated tufts which arise before each eye; back of the neck and back greyish brown, each feather with a fine black mark down the centre; scapularies mingled grey, brown and black, the latter colour in large patches and occupying the tips of the feather; upper surface of the shoulder deep blackish brown; under-surface the same, spotted with white; a black mark or band passes beneath the under mandible and ends at the ear-coverts; throat and all the under-surface finely mottled with light gray and light brown; the chest having large blotches of black running down the middle, and a crescent-shaped irregular band of the same crossing the upper part of the abdomen; primaries brown on their inner webs with obscure, indistinct blotches and irregular bands of lighter brown, their external webs obscurely banded with light grey and brown ; all the tail-feathers brown, crossed with obscure, broad, arrow- headed, mottled bars of blackish brown and grey; bill and feet blackish brown.

Nyctibius pectoralis, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

Turs species inhabits the northern parts of Brazil. t is nearly allied to Caprimulgus Jamaicensis, but is much less in all its admeasurements; it is also allied to, but differs from the Caprimulgus longicaudatus of Spix.

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