174 Rev. H. H. Slater on a Collection 



7. Anorthura, sp. incert. 



This bird, which no doubt would have been of the highest 

 interest, reached rae without a head. As far as can be 

 judged from the remains, the bird is intermediate between 

 A.fumigata of Japan and A. for mo s a of India. 



->- 8. Pnoepyga pusilla, Hodgs. 



One old bird (Kuatun, 20.5.96) and a dusky young one. 

 A new record for China. 



9. Cryptolopha castaneiceps, Hodgs. 



It is somewhat singular that this Nipalese bird should be 

 found in N.W. Fohkien ; but not only have Messrs. La 

 Touche and Rickett sent me for identification two females 

 from Kuatun, but they inform me that one of them was shot 

 off four eggs. The only difference that 1 can detect between 

 these and Nipalese examples is the absence of any white in 

 the "^centre of the body,^^ which is in both the Fohkien 

 females of a uniform canary-yellow ; the culmen measures a 

 trifle less in the latter (0*32, to 0*4 in Indians) ; they are 

 otherwise normal. 



-+^10. Cryptolopha ricketti, n. sp. (PI. IV. fig. 2.) 



This interesting bird, of which I have received a male and 

 female (shot at Kuatun on the 20th and 30th of May, 1896), 

 is most closely allied to C. burkii, Burton, of India, and 

 C. trivirgata (Temm.) of Java, and, with these two species, 

 differs definitely from all the rest of the species of Cryptolopha 

 in having the underparts of a uniform yellow from bill to 

 tail. It differs from both, however, in that its underparts 

 are of the clearest canary -yellow ; beside it both the others 

 look green. It has no trace of the yellow rump of C. burkii, 

 the upper parts from nape to tail being of a uniform grey- 

 green. In C. burkii the whole of the inner web of the tail- 

 feathers is white ; in C. trivirgata there is a white margin 

 to the inner web, not reaching the end of the feathers; in 

 C. ricketti there is a narrow yellow line on the edge of the 

 inner web from base to apex. The differences are difficult 

 to define in words, but the three species look quite different 

 to the eye, and C. ricketti is noticeably shorter-billed. 



