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R. erytkrogastra , Blyth, Jerdon, Blanford, Gates in Fauna Brit. Tndia,Aties, 

 II. p. 97, and others (Himalayas) — iiec Guldenstadt ! [P/ioeniciira reetesi 

 Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XII, pt. II. p. 963 (1843), is iinoted by 

 Dresser, B. Europe, II. p. 305, as referring to this species ; bnt it is clear, 

 from the description, that it has notliing to do with our bird.] 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HILL-WREN FROM FLORES. 



Bt the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



Pnoepyga everetti sp. uov. 



DIFFERS from both P. squamata (Gould) (= P. albiventris Hodgs.) and 

 P. pusilla Hodgs. of India in the remarkable fact that the sexes are not 

 conspicuously different, while in the two Indian species the »iale is of a white 

 ground-colour below, the female bright fulvous. The bill is larger in my new 

 species than even in the large Indian species (P. squamata). The colour is very 

 much like that of the male of P. pusilla, and the secondaries and wing-coverts 

 have even larger and more conspicuous bright fulvous spots at the tips, the back 

 and rump are more conspicuously spotted with fulvous, but the head is darker and 

 more blackish, the feathers of the sides of the body have darker and more blackish 

 edges. The nearest ally is evidently P. rufa of Sharpe from Java, in which the 

 sexes are also said to be alike in colour; bnt as that species is said to be " everywhere 

 more rufous than P. pusilla, especially on the lores, forehead, ear-covcrts, and spots 

 of the wings," it cannot jjossibly be the same as my Flores birds, although I have 

 no specimen before me to compare. The total length of P. everetti is about 

 85 — 90 mm.; wing 52 — 54; tail l(i; culmen from base of forehead 15 — 16, exposed 

 part of culmen 10 ; tarsus 20 — 2L Mr. Everett sent a series of this interesting 

 bird from South Flores, shot at elevations of about 3000 to 3500 feet. 



