from South-eastern China. 43 



tinctive feature of it '' les longs sourcils noirs qui vont du 

 dessus des yeux j usque derriere le cou/' T cannot find a 

 trace of these in any of the birds I have examined, and think 

 that Mr. Seebohm should re-name the south-eastern bird. 



5. ^THOPYGA LAToucHii, sp. u. (Plate I.) 

 JE. Christina consobrina; dorso, tamen, et alis multo viri- 

 dioribus et rostro breviore faciliter distinguenda. 



Five examples, two males and three females, obtained at 

 Chiong P6, in the hills west of Swatow. This bird has a 

 close affinity to the Hainan bird, ^. Christines, Swinhoe, but 

 is separable at the first glance by its brighter tints and shorter 

 bill. In this last respect it approximates to yE. bella, Tweedd., 

 from North Mindanao. 



The two central tail-feathers are not narrowed at their tips 

 so abruptly, nor to such fine points, as those of ^. christince, 

 in which it also resembles JE. bella ; indeed, the three species, 

 with jE. shelleyi, form a natural group of the genus ^tho- 

 pyga, the present one being intermediate and about equally 

 distinct from the others. It also differs from the Hainan 

 species in having the back, from the metallic green nape to 

 the bright-yellow rump, olive-green, instead of velvety black 

 (with the faintest green tinge) ; the deep maroon throat and 

 fore neck of jE. christince become almost crimson in ^. la- 

 touchii, and in the latter the underparts are of a much brighter 

 greenish yellow. Measurements — culmen 0'53 inch, wing 

 205, tail 1*85 (the two central feathers narrowed into a sooty 

 black, not metallic, point, 0*5 long, 0*03 broad), tarsus 0'5. 



Female. Head and face greyish green ; back, wing-coverts, 

 rump, and two central tail-feathers olive-green j remiges 

 margined with the same, rather browner ; underparts light 

 greenish white, rather paler on the flanks ; no trace of a 

 terminal point to the two central tail-feathers, rest of tail 

 black, graduated, with a white tip (as in the male) to each 



