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A NEW SPECIES OF BAIL. 



Bv TJIE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



Hypotaenidia owstoni sp. nov. 



AnrLT Female. — Above olive-lirowii, with a slight rufous tinge; head and hind- 

 neck more chocolate. A superciliary stripe of pale grey from the base of the culmen 

 to about one inch behind the eye. .Scapulars and most of the upper -ning-coverts 

 like the back, but some, mostly the outer ones, black with white bars, while a few are 

 olive-lirown, liroadly barred with black and white. Primaries deep brown, barred 

 with from four to seven sharply defined white bands aud an ecjual number of less 

 distinct black ones. Tail like the back, but slightly spotted with white and a few 

 black spots. Lores and broad band from under the eyes to the neck chocolate. Chin 

 ashy white ; throat and lower neck [lale grey. Breast, abdomen, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts blackish grey, slightly washed with brown and broadly banded with white : 

 the flanks more blackish, with the bars fewer and more distinct. Lender wing-coverts 

 like the flanks. Thighs uniform brown on the outside, barred on the inside like the 

 abdomen. " Bill : slate-black, Eidgway's Nomend. Colours PI. ii. fig. 2 ; under 

 mandible: .seal-brown, Eidgw. PI. iii. fig. 1; iris: ferruginous, PI. iv. fig. 10; legs 

 and feet : drab-grey,;Pl. ii. fig. 13 ; claws: mouse-grey, PI. ii. fig. 11."* Total length 

 about 10 — 12 inches in the skins (11 inches from tip of bill to end of tail as measured 

 in the flesh). Wing 4-5 — 4-7 inches, tail about 1-7, culmen 1'4 — I'O, tarsus 1-8, 

 middle toe with claw 1 '9. 



Hab. Island of Guam, or Guaham, [Marianne Islands. 



Three /ema^es, all aUke; shot in May, June, and July 1895. 



Notes of the collectors on label : " This bird was captured, half-way up a hill, 

 among shrubs and grass, by placing traps across the difl'erent footpaths. It is difficult 

 to obtain with a gun. The note of this bird is occasionally heard, but the bird is 

 rarely seen. In the daytime it does not move about. It cannot fly high. The 

 natives call it ' Koko,' and say it feeds mainly on insects." 



The species is named in honour of ]Mr. Alan Owston, of Yokohama, wliose men 

 have collected for me on the Marianne Islands. 



A NEW SPECIES OF TANAGEE. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



Rhamphocoelus dunstalli sp. no\-. 



Head, neck, and throat black, washed all over with a dull crimson flush. Back, 



rump, and upper tail-coverts brilliant crimson orange; these feathers with their 



basal halves white. Wing-coverts, wings, and tail black. Chest orange-crimson. 



Abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts rufous orange ; the centre of abdomen has 



the ajjpearance of being intermixed with black, as the feathers there ha\e black 



instead of white bases, and a few also black tips. Thighs black. Wings 3-15 inches, 



tail 2-9, tar.sus 0-8, cidmen O-GG. 



Received from .Mr. K. Dunstall, after wliom I have named it. By the make of 

 the skin it evidently came from Central .\mei-ica, and probably Panama. 



* llm L'ollcL'tors had conip.ircd the coloiii-s oE the Ijan? p.Trts \vit!i tlic phites in Ili'tuway's Xtniicn* 

 clatinr of Colours, before the birds were skinned. 



