APPENDIX. 60 1 



II. Descriptions of New Species of Birds from the Burmese Bee/ion. [Extracted from Blyth's 

 " Mammals and Birds of Burma," J. A. S. B. August 1875, pt. ii., extra number.] 



[In the late Lord Tweeddale's editorial notes to the posthumous catalogue of the ' Birds of 

 Burma,' by Edward Blyth, seven species are described as new : the original descriptions are here 

 reprinted. — Ed.] 



[306. Abrornis chrysea, n. sp. j. a. S. b. 



., ■L-T_i-i IT, 1875, pt. ii. 



Above bright oil-green, two broad dark stripes, springing from the forehead, passing over extr,i no. 

 the head and descending down the sides of the neck, where they are almost Idack. A central !'• ^"^• 

 single stripe thus formed on the head yellowish green. A broad stripe springing near the nostril 

 I and passing over the eye, and thus bounding the dark stripe, bright yellow. Ear-coverts mingled 

 black and green. Cheeks, chin, throat, thigh-coverts, under tail-coverts, shoulder-edge, under 

 shoulder-coverts, and axillaries bright canary-yellow. Breast paler yellow, shading to pale silky 

 grey on the abdominal region and flanks. Quills light brown, edged externally with bright 

 greenish yellow. Major wing-coverts tipped and edged with yellow. Rectrices like the quills, 

 all but the middle pair being edged on their interior margins with very pale yellow. Maxilla 

 brown; mandible pale straw-colour. Wing 2 inches, tail 275, tarsus 0-56, bill (from forehead) 

 0-50. 



Karen hills, ? ( W. B.*). 



I am not sure whether this is not BeguJoides fulviventer, Godwin-Austen, a species founded 

 on a carbolized example, in which the green and yellow may have become changed to grey or 

 altogether discharged.] 



[337. ZOSTEROPS AUSTENI, n. Sp. j. a. S. B. 



Karen-nee, at 2500 feet [W. B.). ^Sa'^no"* 



Above, dark uniform oil-green ; underneath, light yellowish green, almost pure yellow on !'• Ur- 

 chin, throat, and under tail-coverts. A shade of black below the eye. Quills dark brown, edged 

 externally with the colour of the dorsal plumage. Shoulder-edge bright yellow. Axillaries and 

 under shoulder-coverts white, tinged with yellow. Rectrices hair-brown, narrowly edged externally 

 with green. Wing 2"6 inches, tail 1'50, tarsus 0'50, bill (from forehead) 0'55.] 



[369. Alcippe magnirostris, n. sp.f j A s B 



Karen-nee hills, at 3000 feet {W. B.). 1S75, pt. ii. 



^ ' _ _ _ _ extra no. 



All the individuals obtained in the locality named differ from Darjeeling, Garo hills, and p. 115. 



Naga hills examples by wanting the grey-coloured cheeks and ear-coverts of A. m'palensis, and 



by having the tail brown and not rufous. All the dimensions are greater. Wing 2-75 inches, 



tail 3, tarsus 0-87.] 



[374. Stachyrhis assimilis, n. sp. j ^ S. B. 



Above cinereous olive-green. Feathers of the head yellow, with brown central streaks, extl-'a^ no"' 



* Wardlaw Eamsay. f [This species is the true .4. j>7i«y?-<;i, Blyth. — Ed.] 



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