654 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 37. 



No. 114^78. — This specimen has the outer web and the entire shaft 

 of one of the central tail feathers white. 



TERPSIPHONE OWSTONI, new species. 



1860. Tchitrea principalis Swinhoe, Ibis, p. 57 (not Temminck and Schlegel); 



Ibis, 1861, pp. 39, 411; 1863, p. 260; Proc. Zool. See. London, 1863, p. 289; 



Ibis, 1865, p. 541. 

 1871. Tchitrea princeps Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 381. — Blakiston 



and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 234; Proc. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1880, p. 216; 1882, 



p. 148 (part).— Sharpe, Brit. Miis. Cat. Birds, 1879, vol. 4, p. 361 (part).— 



JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 304. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to T. atrocaudata (Eyton), but much lighter 

 in color: maroon purplish or "pinkish maroon" on the back; wings 

 and tail brownish black; the lower breast with an ashy band; the 

 black of the breast extending lower down and not sharply defined 

 against the white of the belly; upper tail-coverts dark brownish; 

 tail evenly graduated, the difference in length between the lateral 

 feather and the next to the longest, or fifth, 15 mm.; male, wing, 

 90 mm.; tail, 93 mm.; middle tail-feathers, 281.5 mm.; culmen, 

 16 mm. 



Tyi)e-si)ecimen.— Cat. No. 88650, U.S.N.M. 



Hahitat.— Hondo Island, Japan; Amoy and Hongkong, China. 



Description of the type (Cat. No. 88650, U.S.N.M.; Jouy, No. 497; 

 Fuji Yama, Hondo, July 13, 1882; P. L. Jouy, collector). — Adult 

 male. — Above glossy maroon purplish, with a strong rufous reflection; 

 tail-coverts very dark chestnut brown, differing from the back and 

 much lighter in color than the tail; tail brownish blue-black; head 

 and crest, throat, ear-coverts, and breast violaceous black; sides of 

 head and hind neck black ; flanks and sides of the body dusky maroon 

 chestnut; belly and under tail-coverts white; the feathers of the 

 middle of the breast with ashy margins, blending the color of the 

 breast with the belly; axillaries dusky, with white tips, under wing- 

 coverts white, innermost under wing-coverts dusky brownish; lesser 

 and middle wing-coverts like the back, the greater wing-coverts and 

 secondaries broadly edged with bright maroon chestnut; wings very 

 dark sepia brown; primaries slight!}^ edged with dark maroon chest- 

 nut. Iris blue black; bill and soft ring around the eye bright cobalt 

 blue; tarsi and toes bluish lead color. 



Dimensions. — Wing, 90 mm; tail, lateral rectrix, 80 mm., fifth, 

 93 mm., middle, 281.5 mm.; exposed culmen, 16 mm.; tarsus, 15 mm. 



Adult female. — Above dusky chestnut or burnt umber, with a slight 

 trace of violaceous; middle wing-coverts dull cinnamon-rufous; pri- 

 mary coverts dusky brown edged with rufous; wing dusky olive 

 brown, the primaries and secondaries broadly edged externally with 

 dull cinnamon-rufous, the tertials broadly margined with dull cinna- 

 mon-rufous; tail-coverts and tail dull "Front's brown;" head, crest, 



