of Birds from the Indian Region, .95 



rufous. Space before the eye and supercilium, passing well 

 behind the eye, greyish white. Forehead, head, and nape 

 pure bright uniform rufous. Back olive-grey, each feather 

 broadly centred by a longitudinal stripe of brown. Uro- 

 pygium and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-grey. The base 

 of the long and lax uropygial feathers pure dark grey, the tips 

 only being olive-grey. Rectrices above dull ruddy brown, 

 obsoletely barred with narrow brown lines. Quills brown, 

 externally margined with ferruginous olive. Lesser wing- 

 coverts olive-grey ; greater tinged with ferruginous. 



Wing 2-75 inches, tail 5'25, tarsus I'O, culmen 0*56. 



Obtained by Mr. A. H. Everett at Monte Alban and at 

 San Mateo, in Luzon, during February. Only one example 

 has the sex noted on the label ; but as the dimensions of the 

 other individual coincide, it is probably also a female, the 

 dimensions of the males in this genus exceeding those of the 

 females. 



Niltava leucura^ sp. n. 



c? . Crown and nape blue, glossed with pale lazuline, most 

 conspicuous on the forehead and supercilium. Lores and 

 narial plumes black. Back, uropygium, and upper tail- 

 coverts dead lazuline blue. Chin, throat, and breast grey, 

 Avashed with lazuline blue, which shades into white on the 

 abdomen. Ventral region and under tail-coverts pure white. 

 Flanks bluish ash. Quills brown, margined above with dark 

 blue. Wing-coverts like the head. Wing-lining and axil- 

 laries grey. Outer pair of rectrices brown, pure white at the 

 base ; next two pairs with the outer webs brown, washed with 

 blue, the base of each and nearly the whole of tlie inner webs 

 pure white ; the fourth pair brown on the inner web and with 

 three fourths of the basal part of the outer web pure white ; 

 fifth pair brown, washed with blue on the outer webs ; middle 

 pair blue. Bill black ; legs light brown. 



Wing 3-50 inches, tail 3-0, tarsus 0-87, culmen 0-62. 



Obtained by Mr. Limbourg at Taoo, 5000 feet elevation, in 

 Tenasserim. 



Dicceum xantJiopygium^ sp. n. 



(J. Above, cheeks, and wing-coverts dark bluish slate- 

 grey. An isolated dorsal patch crimson. Uropygium yellow. 

 Chin, throat, and upper part of breast yellow. Remainder of 

 breast, abdomen, and flanks orange. Ventral region, thigli- 

 coverts, and .under tail-coverts yellow tinged with green. 

 Rectrices and quills dark brown ; the primaries narrowly 

 margined with white, tlie secondaries with olive-green. 



