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ear-coverts, fore neck, centre of chest, belly, and thighs ashy 

 grey, whiter on the throat ; bill greenish ; irides red ; legs 

 and feet carmine. I take the description from a female shot 

 in December 1887 and a male in April 1888, both near 

 Swatow. There is another specimen in the Museum at 

 Sikawei, another in the Shanghai Museum. Culmen, ^ 

 1-2 inch, ? 1-03; wing, ^ 5-2, ? 4-75; tail, c? ? 2-5; 

 tarsus (? 2-1, ? 2-0. 



G. olivacea, Meyer, with which the present species might 

 be confused, is a good deal larger bird, has reddish under 

 tail-coverts, no trace of white on the throat at any season of 

 the year, and has greenish-brown feet and legs. 



I have to thank Mr. Sharpe for the facilities for comparison 

 which he has readily afforded me, and Mr. Seebohm, who has 

 sent me valuable specimens by post and has given up to me 

 a morning of his time ; also Mr. de La Touche, to whom I am 

 greatly indebted in many ways. 



VII. — Description of an apparently new Species of the Genus 

 Siphia /rom Borneo. By A. H. Everett, C.M.Z.S. 



A SINGLE specimen of a fine new Flycatcher of the genus 

 Siphia was .obtained by my native hiinter on Mount Penrisen, 

 in Sarawak, in December 1889, and is now in the collection 

 of the British Museum. Both Count Salvadori and Mr. 

 Sharpe concur in beUeving the bird to be new. Neither the 

 sex nor the elevation at which the specimen was obtained 

 can be stated, but it is probably a male and restricted to the 

 highlands. 



I propose to call it 



Siphia nigrogularis, sp. n. 



Adult. General colour above dark blue, dull on the crown, 

 brighter on the back and scapulars, and passing into turquoise- 

 blue oil the rump and upper tail-coverts; forehead bright 

 turquoise-blue, which extends backwards over the eye ; lores, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and sides of the breast 

 black, more or less distinctly washed with dark bluej chin 



