. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . Minima of Tickell, and DiccBum Tickellice olim of Blyth; of which,however, I have recently obtained specimens from Canara. My Shikarees call this littlebird chitloo jitta, a name which they also apply to that curious bird the ParisomaVireoides of my Cat. No. 133; the Fringilla Agilis of Tickell, and Pipra Squalida ofBurton, now made into a new genus, Piprisoma,* by Mr. Blyth, and placed in theDicceum group by him; thus confirming the view of its
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . Minima of Tickell, and DiccBum Tickellice olim of Blyth; of which,however, I have recently obtained specimens from Canara. My Shikarees call this littlebird chitloo jitta, a name which they also apply to that curious bird the ParisomaVireoides of my Cat. No. 133; the Fringilla Agilis of Tickell, and Pipra Squalida ofBurton, now made into a new genus, Piprisoma,* by Mr. Blyth, and placed in theDicceum group by him; thus confirming the view of its afiinities held by my Shikarees,which I confess it was some time before I could recognise. I add a description of the Dicceum Concolor. Above brownish olive, wingsand tail darker, beneath greenish white, irides brown. Bill dark plumbeous, legs andfeet brown. Length about 4 inches—wing 2fg—tail 1-jV—tarsus i—bill (front) -rVths, atgape ^ths. The bird is figured on the branch of a tree well known on the Neilgherriesunder the name of the pink arbutus, which is I believe a species of Thibaudia. * Journ. Ae. Soc. 1844, page 394. \ i/A:u^i C<rc/u///if iU„Cf,/ /y Z,M^,^ TQ^J? £<€Jri lUSHJiCf TRIBE SCAXSORE^. GEN. HEMICIRCUS:.PLATE ATi. MEMICIRCUS COMDATUS, Meart-spotted wo odpegker. Syu.—PicKS cordatus, JercIoE Cat. No. 206.—P. carnxMe, Lesso-ii, Ceatinie Zoologique PI. 73? leaiiliafl-diy Bring myself tb believe-that tbe Wootlpeek^i figured iii the plate^- isthe same as th« ©ne described bv Lesson as foilows— Thi* Woodpeeker has neither rednor green iii its plumage; two colours only, black and white form its piiiniage ;: erest,liead and bind neck, deep bJne-blask.—Tbroafc and foreaeek ashy greVf reliev-ed on each,side by two broad wbit-e Biarks, readiing from the eommissure of the bill t» the upper partof tlie thorax. All the lower part of the bo^ from the bretisi ©f a deep sraoksy uncoloured^ figure which accompanies my copy o
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