114 Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, ^c. 



many scarce birds, such as the curious Toucan {Andigena lami- 

 nirostris), some rare Tanagers [Saltator atripennis and Buar- 

 remon leucopterus), and several undescribed species of different 

 famiUes. But the most remarkable thing in the collection, and 

 indeed one of the most extraordinary birds lately discovered, is a 

 new Umbrella-bird [Cephalopterus) with a very elongated throat- 

 lappet, nearly as long as the whole body of the bird. This we 

 propose to call Cephalopterus penduliger'^ . It will be described 

 at length, and its differences from the two previously known 

 species {Cephalopterus ornatus and C. glabricollis) pointed out, 

 in the report on Mr. Fraser's collections submitted to the Zoolo- 

 gical Society. Meanwhile the accompanying figure by Mr. 

 Wolf (PI. III.) will give a good idea of its strange appearance. 



M. Mouhot de Montbeilliard of Jersey has safely arrived at 

 Bangkok, whence he was preparing to start, as soon as the dry 

 season should commence, to explore the natural productions of 

 the unknown interior of the kingdom of Siam. His first col- 

 lections may be expected very shortly. His agent is Mr. S. 

 Stevens, of 24 Bloorasbury Street. 



A letter from Mr. Blyth of the Calcutta Museum, dated in June 

 last, announces the arrival of some interesting novelties from the 

 Andaman Islands: — "Among the birds I received a handsome 

 new Shawa {Kittacincla albiventris, nobis). Form typical, but 

 with the four medial tail-feathers much less elongated than in K. 

 macroura; the abdominal region, tibial plumes, axillaries, and fore- 

 part of wing underneath pure white; vent and lower coverts only, 

 and hindermost portion of the flanks deep ferruginous, as in the 

 other : otherwise like K. macroura." Mr. Blyth also speaks of 

 a new Pheasant which he has described as Diardigallus fas- 

 ciolatus. Five males were brought alive to Calcutta, supposed 



* It is smaller considerably than C. ornatus, measuring — whole length 

 14L inches, wing 9|, tail 4^, bill from front 1'7, tarsus I'S, throat-lappet 

 8^. The corresponding measurements of a fine specimen of C. ornatus in 

 Mr. Gould's collection are, whole length 17^ inches, wing 11, tail 6\, bill from 

 front l"9, tarsus 2' 1, throat-lappet 40. In C.penduliger the throat-lappet 

 is long and narrow, and there is no bare space on the neck ; in C. ornatus 

 the lappet is short and broad, covering a naked space ; in C. glabricollis 

 the whole fore-neck and chest as well as the basal part of the lappet itself 

 are denuded. In C. penduliger, again, the under wing-coverts are partly 

 white, in C. ornatus they are quite black. 



