of Birds from N. W. Foh kien. 175 



Head with a yellowish-green line from beak to nape down 

 the centre of the crown ; on either side of it a broad black 

 ]ine_, bordered by a bright yellow eyebrow ; through the eye 

 another black stripe; rest of upper parts grey-green, the 

 feathers of the darker wings and tail margined externally 

 with the same grey-green ; throat and underparts, including 

 the under wing-coverts and axillaries, bright canary-yellow ; 

 outer tail-feathers with a narrow yellow inner margin, reach- 

 ing to the tips of the feathers ; upper mandible very dark 

 brown, the lower whitish horn-colour; legs and feet, including 

 claws, very pale yellow-brown. 



Length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-33, wing 2 to 21, tail 1-6, 

 tarsus 0'64. 



I have named this species after Mr. C. B. Rickett, who is 

 doing so much at present for Central Chinese ornithology. 



-11. SiPHIA BRUNNEATA, U. Sp. 



This is the Chinese form of S. olivacea, Hume, with which 

 (from the description in B. M. Cat. iv. p. 458) I at first 

 believed it to be identical. But on comparison with the 

 Museum series it seems quite divergent enough for separation. 

 I have before me two examples, a male shot at Kuatun on 

 May 26, 1896, and another, shot next day, of which the sex 

 is not marked. Instead of dull olivaceous above, as in S. 

 olivacea, the colour of the upper parts is a dusky russet-brown, 

 without the least tinge of green ; the sides of the head are 

 of the same uniform russet — not ashy grey, as in S. olivacea ; 

 and the underparts, excepting the centre of the throat and 

 belly, which are white, are of a lighter shade of the dus^ky 

 russet found on the back. Moreover the Chinese birds 

 have a whitish base to the under mandible, which none of the 

 Indian specimens in the British Museum have. 

 Measurements : — 



