290 ON SOME SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF BIEDS. [1875. 



Three of the forty-seven individuals I have received present a feature not liitherto recorded, 



namely a tendency to assume a naked callosity on the crown, as is observable in Megaceiihalon 



maleo. One, a female from Katschal island, has the occiput and vertex naked of feathers and 



A. M. N. H. covered with a black, hard, thick skin, overlapped in part by the lengthened frontal plumes. 



scr.-i vol.xiVi 



p. 104. Another, a male from Camorta island, is similar; but the frontal plumes being shorter, the naked 

 callosity is more evident. In a third, a female from Nangcowry island, the naked area extends 

 almost from the forehead to low down the nape. At the anterior edge of the naked skin is a 

 large fold, the true nature of which it is difficult to ascertain in the dry specimen. 



1875. 



Ibis, 1875, Letter on Gecinus erythropygius, Wardlaio Bamsay, from Viscount Waldeij, P.Z.S., 



^' ■ to the Editor of ' The Ibis ' (January 1875). 



Sir, — In the P. Z. S. April 21, 1874 (p. 212, pi. xxxv.), a species of Woodpecker, obtained by 

 Lieutenant R. Wardlaw Ramsay near Tonghoo, in British Burmah, was described as new, under 

 the title of Gecinus erythropi/rjius. 



Somewhat later (P. A. S. B. May 1874, p. 106) the same species appears to have been 

 described by Mr. Hume under the title of Gecinus nigrigenis, and again (Str. F. ii. p. 444). 



The species, however, seems identical with Gecinns erytliropygius, D. G. Elliot (N. Archiv. 

 1865, p. 76, pi. iii.), founded on an example ( 9 ) obtained in Cochin China by M. Germain. 



Yours, 

 Dec. 1874. WaLDEN. 



Ibis, 1875, Descriptions of some supposed netv Species of Birds. By Major Godwin-Austen, F.Z.S., and 

 ^' "^ ' Arthur, Viscount Walden, F.R.S. [From 'The Ibis,' April 1875.] 



SUTHOKA MUNIPUEENSIS, n. sp. 



Desc. Crown of head cinnamon-brown, becoming more olivaceous or fulvous green on back ; 

 shoulder of wing greenish umber. Primaries black, the first four edged white, the rest crossed 

 with a bright fulvous bar on the outer webs ; the secondaries edged broadly with fulvous, and a 

 few of the last tipped white on inner web. Tail ruddy fulvous at base, paling towards the end, 

 which is dusky and indistinctly barred, a broad supercilium black, lores and narrow circle round 

 the eye pure white. Ear-coverts and side of neck grey ; chin and throat black, merging into 

 pearly grey and white on the breast ; under tail-coverts pure white. 



Length 4-5 inches, wing 1-8, tail 2-4, tarsus -77, bill at front -28. 



Obtained by Mr. William Robert, near Karakhul, Muuipur hills. 



