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386 Mr. C. W. De Vis on new or little-known 



under wing-coverts like flanks, with fuscous centres ; wiugs 

 above fuscous brown, secondaries broadly edged all round 

 with rufous, primaries narrowly with greyish brown ; under 

 wing fuliginous grey, internal webs pale sordid rufous : 

 "iris light brown; beak light brown; feet pink/^ Length 

 190 mm., wing 61, tail 108, culmen 12-5, tarsus 21. 



''Male: Neneba, Mt. Scratchley, Nov. 10th, 1896; con- 

 tents of stomach, insects." 



28. ACROCEPHALUS CERVINUS, Sp. UOV. 



Female. Above olive-brown, tinged with russet on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; below nearly uniform vinaceous 

 fawn-brown, rather darker posteriorly ; primary-coverts pale 

 fuscous brown, edges of primaries tinged with yellow ; meta- 

 carpal edge and under wing-coverts dull buff; no distinct 

 eye-stripe ; thighs yellowish brown ; inner webs of quills 

 narrowly edged with pale rufous : " iris red ; upper mandible 

 corneous, lower pink ; feet pink." Length 171 mm., wing 

 80, tail 7Q, culmen 14-5, tarsus 22. 



Female : " July 24, 1896 ; contents of stomach, insects 

 and flowers.''^ 



29. Drymacedus brevirostris, sp. nov. 



Above coffee-brown, the rump tipped with buffy brown, 

 the head and neck brown, deepening to fuscous on the fore- 

 head ; chin and upper throat sordid white ; rest of under 

 surface ashy, washed with brown, becoming rufous on flanks 

 and vent and chestnut-brown on under tail-coverts ; lores 

 and eyelid posteriorly white, separated by a black spot above 

 and below ; side of head ashy brown ; ear-coverts at base 

 and a patch on the sides of the throat fuscous ; apical half 

 of ear-coverts ashy, with white shafts ; all the wing-coverts 

 black, and, except on one or two of the primary-coverts, 

 largely white-tijjped, forming two bands across the wing; 

 remiges fuscous brown, a trace of a grey spot near base of 

 fourth and fifth primaries ; apical half of primaries edged 

 with white, greyer towards tip; secondaries edged with 

 russet-brown ; axillaries ashy ; under wing-coverts blackish, 

 broadly white-tipped, foi'ming a bar ; primaries and second- 



