288 ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF BIEDS. [1874. 



come under my observation ; and a comparison made between them and Andaman examples 

 makes it clear that they belong to a totally distinct species. Having already shown {I. c.) that 

 the Andaman species differs from the Malayan G. innofata, it remains without a title ; and there- 

 fore for the Andaman bird I propose the name given above. 



EUKYCERCUS CINERASCENS, n. sp. 



A. M. N. H. Chin, throat, breast, cheeks, and under carpal coverts almost pure white ; remainder of 



ser.4,vol.siv. ^^^^.g^. gm-f^ce of body white, faintly washed with ashy grey, the flanks being dark ashy grey ; a 

 distinct white ring round the eye, formed by the minute feathers of the eyelids ; above ashy olive, 

 each feather, except those of the uropygium, boldly centred with brown ; upper surface of the 

 rectrices ashy olive like the back, the middle pair with a narrow dark brown central line on each 

 side of the shaft ; no striations or terminal marks on the rectrices ; upper surface of the wing, 

 when closed, ashy olive like the back, the secondary coverts being centred with brown ; inner 

 edges of the basal portion of the quill-webs underneath white, passing into tawny on the 

 tertiaries. The tail consists of very broad feathers much graduated ; legs (in dried skin) brown. 

 Wing 2 inches, tail 3-25, bill from nostril 0-28, tarsus 0'75. 



Described from an example of a male obtained by Surgeon-Major Day at Dobri, Lower 

 Bengal, on the 27th of November, 1873. 



Ianthcenas nicobaeica, n. sp. 



Entire head, nape, cheeks, and neck dark French grey, chin and throat albescent grey ; 

 breast and abdomen darker grey than the head ; feathers of the back and sides of the neck tipped 

 with iridescent colours of changing green and pinkish violet ; lower down a broad zone of dark 

 grey feathers with bright green reflections, followed by an interscapular zone of iron-grey feathers 

 with pinkish-violet reflections; lesser wing-coverts iron-grey, with semilunar terminal pinkish- 

 violet edgings. All the iridescent tints described alter from green to violet or violet to green, 

 according to the light in which the individual is held. Back, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts 

 dark ashy grey, many shades darker than the head, and tinted with iridescent hues ; quills and 

 rectrices almost black ; base of the bill and eyelids bright red. 



Wing 9-75 inches, tail 6"50, bill from forehead 1-37, tarsus 1, middle toe with claw 1-87. 



Described from examples obtained in Trinkut and Nangcowry islands, Nicobars, by Captain 



Wimberley. 



Like lanthcenas palumboides (Hume), this species possesses twelve rectrices, and is a true 

 • lanthoenas. It is a representative form of the Andaman species, from which it is chiefly 

 distinguished by wanting the pearly-white or greyish-white head, throat, and nape. 



Carpophaga pulchella, n. sp. 

 A. M. N. H. Head, neck, throat, breast, lower surface, and under wing-coverts delicate pale grey, deeply 



Ber.4,vol.xiv. j-jj^j-gj ^^ ^]^g crown, throat, and abdomen with a roseate hue ; forehead pure white ; a broad 



p. J-OO. 



triangular patch on the nape rich cupreous chestnut ; entire back, and all the wing-coverts and 



