53G The Marquis of Tweeddale on 



forehead, vertex, and occiput sublanceolate, brown, margined 

 with golden yellow. Lores yellow. Feathers at base of 

 mandible and cheeks yellow-tipped. Throat, neck, and upper 

 breast brownish ochreous yellow. Chin, lower breast, abdo- 

 men, ventral region, axillaries, under tail- and wing-coverts 

 sulphur-yellow. Inner webs of primaries brown. Exposed 

 surface of all the quills and the wing-coverts like back. Inner 

 margin of inner webs of quills pale yellow. Upper surface 

 of rectrices like that of quills. Under surface pale brown, 

 washed with yellow ; inner webs margined with pure yellow. 

 Shafts of quills and rectrices ruddy brown above ; of quills 

 underneath yellow at base and brown towards the end ; of 

 rectrices bright yellow throughout. 



Described from examples obtained by Mr. Everett at 

 Surigao (N. Mindanao). 



Hypoihymiis codestis, sp. n. 



? . Azure. Feathers of the head grey at their insertion, 

 and each tipped with glistening azure ; a lengthened occipital 

 crest similarly marked. Space before the eye and lores pale 

 blue. Chin, cheeks, throat, sides of neck and upper breast 

 rich velvety turquoise-blue, darker than the blues of the rest 

 of the plumage. Back and upper tail-coverts with grey bases 

 to the feathers, the extremities being blue, which is paler on 

 the upper tail-coverts. Wing-coverts of the same shade of 

 blue as the head. Quills dark brown externally, margined 

 with a paler shade of blue. Lower breast, abdomen, vent, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with pale greenish 

 blue, most intense on the flanks. Axillaries grey, tinged with 

 pale blue. Eectrices above like the quills ; underneath dark 

 brown like under surface of the quills. Shafts of the rec- 

 trices brown above, almost white underneath. Shoulder-edge 

 blue. 



Wing 2-83 inches, tail S'OO, tarsus 0'62, culmen 0-56. 



Described from a specimen obtained in the> island of Dina- 

 gat (Philippines) by Mr. Everett. 



Prionochilus oUvaceus, sp. n. 



? . Entire upper surface, wing-coverts, and surface of closed 

 wing uniform pure olive-green, which colour encircles the eye 

 and covers the sides of the neck. Space before the eye, cheeks. 



