383 Mr. C. W. Do Vis on neiv or little-known 



{;recn, neck spotted witli ashy tips ; back rufous brown, with 

 slightly paler edges ; rump rufous brown ; upper tail-coverts, 

 wings, and tail fuscous brown, the reraiges edged with 

 rufous, the primary-coverts rufous ; ear-orifice anteriorly 

 fringed with i)ale yellowish-buff feathers with fuscous 

 centres ; behind the car a narrow stripe of golden yellow ; 

 malar region fuscous in middle, yellowish towards the ears ; 

 chin and upper throat ash-grey ; rest of lower surface russet- 

 brown, washed with yellow on lower throat, with rather 

 paler tips on sides of breast, and inclining to pale chestnut 

 on sides of abdomen, under tail- coverts, and under surface 

 of tail ; middle of abdomen pale ashy grey ; under wing- 

 covcrts buff stained with chestnut ; imdcr surface of wing 

 fuscous brown, the quills broadly edged on inner web with 

 rich rufous : " iris brown ; beak black ; under the eyes dull 

 yellow; feet gn^y or light grey." Length 190 nun., wing 

 97, tail 85, culmcn 25, tarsiis 23. 



Femak. Head and neck above grey, with a brown tinge, 

 no grey spots on neck (in another specimen marked ? they 

 are present), the auricular fringe and malar region brown ; 

 otherwise like the male. 



Two males and two females: " Boiravc, July 13th-21th, 

 1896. Contents of stomach in two ( c^ ? ) fruits, in the 

 others insects. Native name ' Sibisibina.' " 



This species is generally similar to V.fd\(jera and P. xan- 

 tliotls^ with a distinct caruncular fold under the eye and 

 behind the gape above and below, especially in the male. 



21. PtILOTIS LACRIMANS, Sp. UOV. 



Above fuscous brown, with flight tinge of olive ; wing- 

 feathers edged with bright olive-green ; the rectriees faintly 

 washed with olive on outer webs ; forehead, lores, behind and 

 below the eye posteriorly nearly black, the last crescentiform, 

 conspicuously spotted with white ; over the rictus a nude 

 spot, nuirgined above with short yellowish feathers, which 

 merge into a bright yellow stripe over the fuscous car- 

 coverts, some of which below it arc also yellow ; behind the 

 ear-coverts a broad triangular tuft of white ; chin and throat 



