820 Mr. R. B. Sliarpe on Birds 



the sides of the body, but paler, and inclining to whitish 

 below the black chin-spot; centre of breast and abdonien 

 white, as also the under tail-coverts, with a slight tinge of 

 buff; lateral breast-feathers tipped with blue, like the back ; 

 thighs white, with blackish bases ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white, slightly tinged with buff ; edge of wing blue. 

 Total length 5'9 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 2"9, tail 2"5, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



This species is closely allied to Siphia phiUppensis, but is 

 much larger, of a more greenish blue, and is especially dis- 

 tinguished by the white moustache, forming a narrow line 

 down each side of the throat. 



Zeocephus cyanescens, Sharpe. 



Zeocephus cyanescens", Sharpe, t. c. p. 328, pi. 48. fig. 2 ; 

 id. Cat. B. iv. p. 343. 



A single specimen of what I believe to be the female of 

 this species. It is like a huge Hypothywis, but I believe it 

 to be really the other sex of Z. cyanescens. 



General colour above dark vinaceous brown, rather clearer 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts duller 

 brown, the greater series externally edged with vinaceous 

 brown ; quills dark brown, externally margined with reddish 

 brown, much paler and more tawny rufous along the outer 

 webs of the secondaries; tail-feathers dull rufous, browner 

 on the edges ; head crested, dull cyaneous, more dusky in 

 front of the eye ; sides of face, cheeks, and under surface of 

 body from the throat to the breast pale ashy cyaneous, dull 

 whitish on the flanks and under tail-coverts, with a faint 

 vinous tinge ; sides of neck dull cyaneous, washed with 

 brown ; axillaries light fulvous ; under Aving-coverts dark 

 brown, washed with dull blue; quills dusky brown below, 

 ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 6'8 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 3*35, tail 3'35, tarsus 0'7. 



Lord Tweeddale, in describing his Trichostoma rufifrons 

 (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 616), suggests that Z. cyanescens may be 

 congeneric with T. rufifrons. I have described and classified 

 the Timeliidae since that time, and find that T. rufifrons is a 



