378 Lord Walden on a new Species of Trichostoma. 



Trichostoma finschi (Plate XI. fig. 1). It may be thus de- 

 scribed : — 



(J (Macassar). Chin and throat white, faintly tinged with 

 very pale fulvous. Breast, abdomen, flanks, under wing- 

 coverts, and thigh-coverts fulvous, tinged with rufous, pale 

 near the mesial line. Under tail-coverts rusty fulvous, redder 

 than the abdominal plumage. Head umber-brown, with a 

 slight olive tinge. Space before the eye greyish white. Cheeks 

 fulvous white. Back and uropygium rufous brown, the uro- 

 pygial feathers being voluminous and fluffy, and terminally 

 coloured pale rusty fulvous. Upper tail-covcrts pure rust- 

 colour. Quills and rectrices ruddy brown, the outer webs 

 being distinctly rusty brown. The inner webs of the third and 

 following quills with a pale rusty fulvous edging for part of their 

 length, this edging being indicated at the base of the second 

 quill. Wing-coverts ruddy brown. Legs, feet, claws, and 

 lower mandible (in dried skins) pale yellowish white. Upper 

 mandible horny brown, commissure and tip pale yellowish 

 white. Iris (labelled) yellow. Wing 2-87 inches, tail 2-25, 

 tarsus 1"0. Rictus armed with very long bristles. First pi-i- 

 mary short, second about half an inch longer, third three 

 eighths longer than second; fourth, fifth, and sixth longer 

 than third, the fourth and sixth being nearly equal, and the 

 fifth the longest. 



T.celtbense,^iT\c\\. (Menado) (Plate XI. f. 2). Whole head 

 above, nape, back, uropygium, and major wing-coverts rich red- 

 dish brown, purer brown on the head. The long loose uropy- 

 gial feathers tipped with ferruginous. Rectrices and outer 

 webs of the quills dark ferruginous chestnut (in another ex- 

 ample the outer webs of the quills concolorous with dorsal plu- 

 mage) ; inner webs brown. Lores ashy white. , Cheeks and 

 ear-coverts brown. Chin, throat, and ventral region white or 

 ashy white. Breast pale cinereous. Flanks brown. Thigh- 

 coverts and under tail-coverts light rust-colour. Upper tail- 

 coverts bright ferruginous. Legs, fee^, and claws pale yel- 

 lowish. Base of maxilla blackish brown; remainder, with 

 mandible, pale horn-colour. Rictal bristles black, not very 

 stifi", and extending beyond the basal half of the bill. Wing 



