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flanks strongly tinged with tlie same colour. Upper surface 

 darker ashy than in G. flaveola and tinged with yellowish 

 olive. Ear-coverts slightly darker than the upper surface, 

 and without any trace of yellow or olive. Measurements, 

 taken from the dried skin — Length 3'8 inches, wing \'7o, 

 tail \-7, tarsus 0'55. Legs, feet, claws, and bill black ; irides 

 hazel-nut brown. 



Only one specimen, a male, was obtained on the 2nd of 

 September last. It was shot near the mouth of the Pahang 

 river. Its pretty little song, as it flitted among the branches 

 of a Casuarina tree, drew my attention to it. Its note much 

 resembles that of many of the PhyUoscopi, and, in fact, I at 

 first took it for a Phi/lloscopus, The following is a more 

 detailed description : — 



Upper surface dark ashy and tinged with yellowish olive. 

 Quills hair-brown, with margins paler, especially so on the 

 tertiaries ; the inner webs of the tertiaries slightly darker than 

 the outer. Tail-feathers like the back, with a subterminal 

 dark band ; all the feathers, except the central ones, with a 

 white irregular spot on the inner webs near the tip, the 

 spotting being minute on the feathers next the central pair, 

 but gradually increasing in size to the outermost ; the upper 

 tail-coverts more decidedly tinged with olive than the rest 

 of the upper surface. Chin, throat, and upper breast clear 

 sulphur-yellow, the colour passing along the base of the lower 

 mandible, immediately below the ear-coverts, and on to the 

 sides of the neck ; the centre of the breast, abdomen, and 

 flanks a somewhat duller yellow. A large patch on each side 

 of the breast, forming a broad pectoral band, interrupted only 

 in the centre of the breast, olive-grey, the same colour tinging 

 the sides and flanks. Wing-linings, axillaries, and lower tail- 

 coverts white, slightly tinged with yellow, the white of the 

 wing-lining passing over the edge and forming a conspicuous 

 spot at the base of the first primary. 



3, Ptilocichla leucogastra, sp. uov. 



The sexes do not perceptibly differ in size or colouring. 

 The following are the dimensions from the dried skins of two 

 males and two females : — 



