446 Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on a 



coverts glossy cobalt-blue, forming a shoulder-patcli ; raerlian 

 coverts green ; greater coverts also green^ with lighter olive- 

 green edges ; bastard wing and primary-coverts blue ; quills 

 blacky externally cobalt-blue, the secondaries green on their 

 outer edges, the inner ones entirely green like the back ; 

 upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dull blue, with 

 a greenish margin to most of them ; crown of head emerald- 

 green, a little duller towards the nape; forehead rather brighter 

 emerald-green ; lores, eyelid, feathers below the eye, fore 

 part of cheeks, and throat black ; ear-coverts and hinder 

 cheeks bright emerald-green, skirting the black throat and 

 forming a green collar on the lower throat ; remainder of 

 under surface from the fore neck downwards light greenish 

 yellow ; the sides of body and flanks more of a grass-green ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts light grass-green ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries light bluish green, the edge of the wing 

 blue; quills below dusky blackish, the inner edge ashy grey. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-45, tail 2'6, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Mr. Whitehead marks the specimen sent as ?i female, and he 

 is so careful in noting the sexes of his captures that I suppose 

 he is right. If it should turn out to be a male, its nearest 

 ally is C. mgricoUis of Java, but that has yellow skirting the 

 throat (not emerald-green) and the fore neck is golden yellow, 

 of which there is no trace in the Kina-Balu bird. The only 

 female birds with which this new species can be compared 

 would be those of C. aurifrons and C. malabarica, but they 

 have purplish throats, besides many other differences. 



18. HeMIXUS CONNECTENS, Sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above earthy brown, slightly 

 washed with olive on the lower back and rump, which are 

 very full-feathered ; lesser wing-coverts brown, like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts olive-yellow ; bastard wing and 

 primary-coverts darker brown, slightly washed with olive ; 

 quills dark brown, externally waslied with olive-yellow, more 

 broadly on the secondaries, the inner ones being entirely of 

 the latter colour; upper tail-coverts olive-yellow; tail-feathers 



