a Mr. P. L. Sclater on the 



new species of the genus from Northern Celebes under the 

 name P. aureolimbatus ; and more recently Dr. Salvador! has 

 characterized another, from Borneo, as P. xanthopyyius^. 



Thus far Prionochilus had been considered peculiar to the 

 Malayan subdivision of the Indian Region, Celebes being 

 debateablc ground between that and the Papuan fauna. Last 

 year, however, Lieut. W. Vincent Legge, R. A., a well-known 

 worker in ornithology, sent me a pair of birds obtained in 

 Southern Ceylon, which I at once recognized as belonging to 

 this genus, and for which, at the Zoological Socicty^s meet- 

 ing on the 18th of June, I proposed the specific name viwcen*, 

 in honour of its discoverer f. 



Mr. Legge gave the following description of his bird : — 



"Male. Length 4^"; tail 1-2"; wing 3-3"; tarsus '5"; mid 

 toe with claw "S", hind toe g^"; bill to gape -^", at front nearly 

 •4". Third primary longest, only slightly longer than second. 



" Descr. Iris reddish; bill, upper mandible black, lower 

 mandible lightish at the base ; legs and feet blackish brown ; 

 entire head (except the chin and throat), hind neck, back, 

 rump, and lesser wing-coverts dull steel-blue, palest on the 

 rump, and with the bases of the feathers dark ; quills blackish 

 brown, the basal portion of inner webs, with the under wing- 

 coverts, white ; tertiaries, greater wing-coverts, and tail black, 

 the former edged with the hue of the upper surface, the latter 

 with the three outer feathers white towards the tip, the colour 

 extending a little up the shaft on inner web, the next two 

 with a small terminal white spot; chin, throat, and chest 

 white, below which the under sui'face is safiron-yellow, paling 

 at the vent ; under tail-coverts white, edged pale yellow. 



"Female. Length 4-1"; wing2^"j taill'l". Bill slightly 

 lighter in hue than <^; legs, feet, and iris the same as S', head 

 and hind neck faded bluish ashen, centres of feathers dark ; 

 back olivaceous brown ; secondaries and wing-coverts brown, 

 edged with olivaceous ; quills lighter than in the male ; sides 

 of neck and chest ashy beneath, paler yellow than the male, 

 mingled with grey on the flanks ; tail brownish black.^'' 



" Hah. Forests of the low hills in the southern province, 

 * Cf. Ibis, 1872, p. 379. f P. Z. S. 1872, p. 729. 



