1874.] ON TWO NEW SPECIES OP BIEDS. 253 



1874. 



Letter on Troglodytes punctatus, Bl.,from Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., to the Editor of Ibis, 1874, 



' The Ibis ' (January 1874). P- ^^• 



Chislehurst, October 1873, 

 Sir, — In the year 1845 Mr. Blyth (J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 589) described a rare and beautiful species 

 of the genus Troglodytes, Vieillot, from Darjeeling, and named it T. punctatus. As this title 

 had been previously bestowed in 1823 by C. L. Brehm on the common Wren of Europe 

 (Naturgesch. europ. Vogel. i. p. 318), I propose the name of T. formosus for the Darjeeling 

 species. 



I have the honour to remain, 

 Yours, 



Walden. 



I)escrij)tions of tioo new Species of Birds. By Arthur, Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., F.R.S., &c. A. M. N. H. 

 [From the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' ser. 4, vol. xiii., February 1874.] ser.4,voUiu. 



PEL-4RG0PSIS GIGANTEA, n. sp. 



Head, nape, chin, cheeks, back and sides of the neck, flanks, under tail-coverts, and 

 entire under surface white, washed more or less with dilute fulvous, the concealed parts of the 

 feathers being pure white and their exposed parts being tinged with fulvous ; this hue is deepest 

 on the flanks, breast, and on the abdominal and ventral regions, and on the under tail-coverts ; 

 crown nearly pure white ; middle and lower part of the back rich pale glistening turquoise-blue ; 

 outer edges of primaries and secondaries, and all the tertiaries and scapulars, dingy bluish 

 green ; middle pair of rectrices above entirely, and lateral pairs on their outer webs, of a purer 

 blue ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries fulvous, somewhat deeper than that of the flanks ; bill 

 coral-red ; feet red. 



Bill from forehead 3-25 inches, wing 6-62, tail 4'50, tarsus 0"88, middle toe 1'50. 



Obtained at Salok, Sulu Islands, near Borneo, by Dr. Bernhard Meyer. 



Scops modesta, n. sp. 



Stifi" loral bristles pure white at base, some tipped with fulvous, some with dark brown or A. M. N. H. 



black; those of the chin pale fulvous, nearly white; over each eye a distinct broad whitish ^'^'"^ '™ ^^i"- 



band, formed by pure white feathers narrowly tipped with yellowish brown, which again in most 



is narrowly fringed with black, some nearest the eyes also edged throughout their length with 



yellowish brown ; feathers of the head and nape pale yellowish rusty, each traversed by three or 



four narrow irregular light brown lines ; interscapulars and feathers of the back and rump 



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p. 12-1. 



