340 Zoological Society, 



secondaries slaty black, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth 

 primaries with an oblique mark of brownish white at the tip ; basal 

 half of the two centre tail-feathers buff, pencilled with brown, their 

 apical half narrow, filamentous and black ; lateral tail-feathers sandy 

 red, crossed by three widely placed irregular bands of black, and 

 tipped with huffy white ; under surface huffy white, minutely pen- 

 cilled on the breast with brown ; legs of the same hue, but the 

 feathers banded with faint bars of brown ; bill and nails black. 



Total length, 1 5^ inches ; bill, f ; wing, 1 ; tail, 7\ ; tarsi, 1 . 



Hub. Ladakh in Thibet. 



Remark. Distinguished from the S. paradoxus by its much larger 

 size, by the primaries not being extended into the filamentous form 

 so remarkable in that species, and by the absence of any black colour- 

 ing on the breast. 



The only example which has come under my notice is in the posses- 

 sion of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Gifford, to whom I am indebted for per- 

 mission to include a figure of it in my work on the ' Birds of Asia.' 



Extraordinary as have been the new species discovered during the 

 last few years, of that remarkable group the Ramphastidce, no one is 

 more singular than the bird which I now submit to the notice of the 

 Meeting ; it may be regarded as an evidence that all the members 

 of the group are not yet known to us, and that the productions of 

 the rich forests of the Cordillerian Andes appear to be inexhaustible. 

 It had long been mj'^ intention to propose a generic name for the 

 Andean group of Toucans, characterized by the dense villose clothing 

 of the under surface, the colouring of which is of a uniform tint, in- 

 stead of being crossed by bars of black, red and yellow as in the 

 typical Pteroglossi ; and at no moment could such a step be more 

 appropriately taken than at the present, when characterizing a new 

 species of this section, for which, indicative of the couutry in which 

 the members are found, I propose the generic term oi Andigena, and 

 for the new species, A. laminirostris ; the other species pertaining to 

 this genus are A. hypoglaucus, A. nigrirostris, A. cucullatus, and 

 A. Bailloni. The new species A. laminirostris, which is distin- 

 guished by the yellow laminae near the base of the upper mandible, 

 is the property of Dr. T. B. Wilson of Philadelphia, to whom and to 

 his brother, E. Wilson, Esq., I am indebted for permission to de- 

 scribe this fine bird ; the native habitat of which is the forests at the 

 base of Pichincha, a high mountain of Ecuador. 



Genus Andigena. 



Gen. Char. — Bill stout, swollen, and moderately large when com- 

 pared vdth the bill of the true Pteroglossi ; wings and tail very 

 similar to those of Aulacorhynchus. General plumage long, loose, 

 and hair-like. 



The species belonging to this genus are — 



Andigena hypoglaucxis {Pteroglossus hypoglaucus, Gould). 



cucullatus {Pteroglossus cucullatus, Gould). 



nigrirostris {Pteroglossus nigrirostris, Waterh.). 



laminirostris, Gould. 



Bailloni {Pteroglossus Bailloni, Wagl.). 



