252 ON THEEE NEW SPECIES OF ASIATIC BIEDS. [1873. 



A. M. N. H. Jjescriptiovs of three new Species of Asiatic Birds. By Arthuk, Viscount Waldex, P.Z.S., 

 p. 487. ' F.li.S., (S:c. [From the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' ser. 4, vol. xii., 



December 1873.] 



Alcedo bufigastea, n. sp. 



Chin and throat creamy white, washed faintly with rufous ; remainder of under surface, the 

 under tail-coverts, and wing-coverts deep bright rufous ; spot before the eye rufous, paler in some 

 than in others ; feathers of the head black, with a penultimate bright blue band, those of the 

 cheeks all bright blue ; back and upper tail-coverts bright blue ; wing-coverts black, washed with 

 blue, each feather tipped with bright blue ; scapulars and rectrices black, washed with blue. 



Wing 2-5 inches, tail 1-62, bill from nostril 1-37. 



Described from three male examples obtained in the island of South Andaman by 

 Lieutenant R. Wardlaw Ramsay. 



This is a well-marked form, intermediate between A. moluccensis and A. asiatica. Above 

 it nearly resembles the first ; underneath it is undistinguishable from the last. 



POMATORIIINUS OCHKACEICEPS, n. sp. 



A. M. y. H. Lores black ; ear-coverts brown, washed with ochreous ; supercilium (commencing at the 



ser.4,vol.xii. i^g^gg ^f i\^q maxilla and reaching to the sides of the neck), chin, cheeks, throat, breast, and 



^' ' shoulder-edge pure unsullied white; crown and nape bright ochreous ferruginous; back and 



i^ 7 > upper tail-coverts ochreous olive ; wings when closed ochreous brown ; middle rectrices brown, 



washed with ochreous, remainder with outer webs coloured like the middle pair; inner webs 



pure brown ; the terminal portion of all the rectrices hardly tinged with ochreous ; abdomen, 



flanks, thigh, and under tail-coverts ochreous brown, the ventral region exhibiting a brighter 



ferruginous tint ; bill yellow, probably red in the fresh skin. 



Wing 3-62 inches, tail 4-87, tarsus 1-25, bill from nostril (in a straight line) 1-00. 

 Hah. Karen Hills, Burma \Lloyd'\. 



MUNIA FUMIGATA, n. sp. 



Above dark brown, deeper on the head ; rump white ; quills above and externally deep 

 brown, on the borders of the inner webs pale tawny rufous, most developed on the secondaries 

 and tertiaries ; tail jet-black, the middle pair of rectrices being slightly elongated ; chin, throat, 

 and cheeks concolorous with the head ; ear-coverts brown, with pale edgings ; breast, abdomen, 

 and flanks dingy white, the breast-feathers with brown spots ; thigh and under tail-coverts 

 brown, with rusty margins. 



Wing 2-00 inches, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-50. 



Described from examples obtained by Lieut. R. Wardlaw Ramsay in the island of South 

 Andaman. Nearly allied to M. acnticauda, Hodgs., but to be readily distinguished by the 

 absence of pale shafts to the dorsal plumage. 



