448 Mr. R. Bowdler Sliarpe on a 



cheeks and on tlie malar line ; thighs ashy grey ; under tail- 

 coverts, under -wing-coverts, and axillaries white ; quills 

 below blackish, whitish along the inner edge. Total length 

 5'2 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2"45, tail 2*3, tarsus 0*65. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total 

 length 5 inches, cvilmen 0*4, wing 5, tail 22, tarsus 0-65. 



Resembles Staphidia castaneiceps (Moore), cf. Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. vii. p. 616; but differs in its entirely rufous crown and 

 nape, the ashy margins to the frontal feathers of S. casta- 

 neiceps not being visible in S. everetti. 



Named in honour of Mr. Alfred Everett, whose scientific 

 work in Borneo and the Philippines has hardly met with the 

 appreciation to which it seems entitled. 



21. MiXORNIS MONTANA, Sp. n. 



Adult female. General colour above reddish brown, with a 

 strong shade of ashy olive, especially on the mantle and hind 

 neck, the latter having sundiy dusky streaks ; the feathers 

 of the lower back and rump very long and fluffy ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dull 

 chestnut; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky 

 brown, externally dull chestnut, more conspicuous on the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts reddish brown ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, externally washed with rufous brown ; crown of 

 head reddish brown, streaked with obscure blackish shaft- 

 streaks, the base of the forehead and lores ashy blackish ; 

 feathers round eye and ear-coverts dull ashy, washed with 

 rufous and having obscure dusky streaks ; cheeks blackish, 

 streaked with white, with which the feathers are edged ; throat 

 and fore neck white, washed with yellow and strongly marked 

 with triangular s]3ots of black, more longitudinal on the 

 latter ; breast pale sulphur-yellow, streaked with dusky 

 blackish ; abdomen rather whiter ; sides of body and flanks 

 uniform ashy olive-brown ; thighs brown, with hoary whitish 

 edges ; under tail-coverts dull sulphur-yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries clear sulphur-yellow ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 5*6 inches, 

 culmen 0*65, wing 2*45, tail 2, tarsus 0'85. 



