274 Messrs. H. E. Dresser and E. Delmar Morgan on 



longest quill; tlie 2nd intermediate between the 7th and 

 8th, and 10-11 mm. shorter than the longest quill; the 1st 

 rather more than half the length of the 2nd, and 29-32 mm. 

 shorter than the longest quill ; upper tail-coverts covering 

 the tail to f of its length. Iris very dark ; bill black, in 

 shape like that of L. brunnea and without bristles on the 

 gape ; legs blue-grey. 



The female is not known. Only four males were obtained 

 in the Yo-dzam-pu gorge, east of the Ming-djau district. 

 They were all met with in bamboo-thickets at an elevation 

 of 10,000 to 11,000 feet, on the tops of ridges dividing the 

 valleys. On the 2nd August Mr. Berezovsky found four 

 unfledged young on the ground in a bamboo-thicket, which 

 had evidently fallen out of a nest, anci shot the male, which 

 was in moult, but it was so nearly dark that he could not 

 wait to secure the female. Tlie song is very flute-like and 

 melodious. 



Measurements: — S . Total length 140-150 mm., expanse 

 210-240, wing 66-71, bill 15-5-16, tarsus 26-29, tail 51-53. 



PCECILE HYPERMEL^NA {of.cit. p. 112, pi. ii. fig. 2). 



Head glossy black, this colour extending wedge-shaped 

 down to the back ; back and rump olive-brown, the latter with 

 a sandy tinge ; on the sides of the head are white streaks 

 from the base of the bill, passing along the cheeks and ear- 

 coverts and merging into the brown of the back ; chin and 

 throat dull black ; middle of breast, abdomen, and vent dirty 

 white ; sides of the breast dark olive-brown ; flanks sandy 

 brown ; scapulars and upper wing-coverts coloured like the 

 back ; quills blackish grey, the inner tertiaries and the 

 margins of the other quills olive-grey ; underparts of the 

 quills grey, with whitish margins to the inner webs ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries light buff"; rectrices dark grey, 

 with olive margins, which become grey towards the tips ; 

 iris dark ; bill black, with paler edges ; tarsus lead-grey : 

 4th, 5th, and 6th quills nearly equal and longest ; 3rd nearly 

 equal to or barely longer than the 7th, and less by 2 mm. 



