472 ADDENDA. 



coverts more broadl)^ edged with white ; least wing-coverts like the 

 back, the rest black, margined with green ; the innermost of the 

 median series pure white, as well as the inner greater coverts ; the 

 quiUs black, narrowly bordered with green ; the inner secondaries, 

 on the other hand, externally white, forming a long alar bar ; quills 

 black, margined with green, the two outermost tipped with white ; 

 sides of face and under surface of body white, with grey cross bars, 

 those on the fore neck small and blackish ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts and broad inner web of quills white. Total 

 length 8 inches, culmen ()■[), wing 4-55, tail 3-2, tarsus 0"9. {Miis. 



^^^. Page 103. Lalage fimbriata. 



/. Skeleton. Java. Purchased. 



Page 132. Insert : — 



7. Alseonax mandellii. 

 Siphia mandellii, nobis, supra, p. 453, note. 



As the concluding pages of this Addenda were being written, the 

 Museum acquired, from the collection of duplicates sent home by 

 Mr. Hume to England, a specimen which I have identified as the 

 Cyomis mandelli of Hume. The bird is labelled Ct/ornis magni- 

 rostris § , but of this being a mistake there can be scarcely any 

 doubt. 



The species is an Alseonax, closely allied to A. muttui of Ceylon, 

 but differing in its browner under surface, where the fulvous-brown 

 colour overshadows the whole breast and flanks ; whereas in A. 

 muttui the breast is white, as weU as the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts, extending also much higher up the breast than in A. man- 

 dellii. 



Page 145. 



In the " Key to the Species," in the description of Plati/stira pel- 

 tata, for chin and rest of under surface of body black, read chin &c. 

 white. 



Page 148. Add :— 



4. Platystira mentalis. 

 Platjstira mentalis, Bocoye, Jorn. Lish. 1879, p. 3. 



Adult male. Glossy steel-black, the chin and abdomen white ; 

 rump and flanks greyish ; wings and tail steel-black ; the outer 

 tail-feathers narrowly edged and tipped with white ; a supraorbital 

 wattle scarlet ; bill and feet black ; iris dusky. Total length 5*6 

 inches, culmen 0-05, wing 4-05, tail 2-55, tarsus 0-8. (Bocac/e.) 



Hub. Benguela : Caconda. 



This species comes very near to P. j^eltafa, Sundev., but appears 

 to be much larger. 



