Recent hj published Ornithological IVorks. 157 



on the j)rimaries^ very broadly on the tertiaries; tail dark 

 brown, faintly edged with rosy.- 



Female. — Of the usual type of females of this genus ; hair- 

 brown above, every feather broadly margined with pale dingy 

 buff: underparts pale dingy buff, each feather rather narrowly 

 centred with brown, most strongly marked on the throat 

 and breast, and least on the abdomen and flanks. 



Wing, ^ 3-45 inches, ? 3'3 and 3-35; tail, S and ? 

 3-5. 



This new species differs from P. rJwmchlamys in having a 

 much longer tail, combined with a rather shorter wing, in 

 having the whole forehead of a bright pink, uniform with the 

 supercilium, and in the pale pink hue of the rump. The 

 general tone of the entire plumage is also paler and greyer 

 in the male, and more buff in the female, while the bill is 

 shorter, stouter, and more tumid, inclining to the form of 

 the Carpodacus type, the tail-feathers are more markedly 

 edged with rosy, and the pale margins to the tertiaries are 

 broader and more conspicuous. 



The Plate represents an adult male in my collection from 

 Yungi-Hissar, killed on the 2nd of December 1873, and a 

 female obtained at Kashffar on the 10th of the same month. 



XIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. Bocage on a new African Coracias. 



[Notice sur une uouvelle espece africaine du genre Coracias. Par 

 J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Join. Scien. Math. Pliys. e Nat. Lisboa, 

 no. xxviii. 1880.] 



The species [Coracias dispar) is the same as has lately been 

 described by Mr. Trimen (P. Z. S. 1880, p. 30) as C. sjmtu- 

 latus. Prof. Bocage^'s example, from Caconda, in the interior 

 of Benguela, was obtained by Sr. Anchieta. 



2. Bocage on West-African Birds. 



[Aves das possessoes portuguezas d'Africa occidental por J. V. Barboza 



