Description of a Neio Species of JBird, (&c. 143 



on the inner web ; the fiftli has onlj a narrow line of black 

 along the shaft, on the outer web for a short distance from its 

 base ; the shafts of the primaries are black, except for a short 

 space at their ends, where they are white ; the long feathers 

 on the flanks are broadly striped down their centres with 

 greyish black ; some of the npper tail coverts are irregularly 

 marked with black ; the tail is salmon color, the elongated, cen- 

 tral feathers deepest in color, except near the end, where they 

 are paler; the shafts of all are black on the npper surface, with 

 a small terminal portion white; on the under surface, tlie shafts 

 of all the tail feathers are white ; the upper mandible is of a dusky 

 greenish-olive, but pale olive yellow along the ridge, the cutting 

 edges, and at the point ; the lower mandible is pale olive yellow, 

 with a brownish mark on the side for two-thirds its length ; 

 tarsi and basal half of toes orange yellow, remaining portion 

 and claws black. 



Length about 33 inches ; wing 11^ ; tail 21 ; tarsus |f ; mid- 

 dle toe and claw If ; bill 2. 



habitat.' — Unknown, 



It was bought from a dealer several years ago, who was under 

 the impression that it had been obtained somewhere in the 

 Pacific Ocean, but could give no information about it, except 

 that it had been brought in by a sailor. 



I gave a short description of the above bird in Vol. IX. p. 

 886 of the Pacif. R. R. Reports, under P. favirostris, as proba- 

 bly being that species in an abnormal stage of plumage ; I was 

 led to this opinion, because a bird apparently the same is 

 figured by Reichenbach, Syst. Av. pi. 30, as flavirostis. I 

 had strong misgivings whether it was assigned its true position, 

 and whether it was not really a distinct species ; my suspicion of 

 its being so, has been strengthened by the account of P. flaviros- 

 tris given by J. L. Hurdis, Esq., in The "N"aturalist in Bermuda," 

 1859, which states the plumage to be white, the male tinged 

 with carmine ; great numbers were obtained, on one occasion 



