196 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 



browu ; head^ nape and liind neck^ lores, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and entire under surface of 

 body pure white, slightly washed with rufous on the head 

 and hind neck ; the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 washed with creamy buff; the sides of body and flanks with 

 slight indications of spots of pale tawny buff; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries like the breast ; quills below ashy grey, 

 with blackish bars on the primaries. Total length 15*5 inches, 

 culmen 1'15, wing 10'8, tail 7'0, tarsus 1'4. 



The typical specimen, though manifestly immature, differs 

 thoroughly from the young of B. sumatrensis, and I feel 

 sure that the adult bird, when discovered, will be markedly 

 distinct. 



12. t Syrnium whiteheadi, sp. n. (Plate III.) 

 8. similis S. sinensi, sed subtus minime albo trasfasciatum. 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, spotted 

 with white, the spots arranged in pairs, the one on the inner 

 web often fulvescent ; scapulars forming a light patch of tawny 

 buff", covered with narrow bars of chocolate-brown ; lesser 

 wing-coverts dark chocolate-brown, with scarcely any white 

 spots ; median and greater coverts more reddish chocolate- 

 brown, transversely barred with white, slightly tinged with 

 tawny buff"; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform 

 blackish brown ; quills brown, crossed with lighter and more 

 rufous-brown bars, whiter near the edge, especially of the 

 secondaries, which are slightly freckled externally ; the inner- 

 most secondaries spotted with white, like the back ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back, but barred with tawny buff" or 

 whitish ; tail-feathers dark chocolate-brown, barred with 

 tawny buff" or creamy white, with which the tail is conspi- 

 cuously tipped, the light bars, seven in number, on the 

 centre feathers, broader and coalescing on the remainder; 

 crown of head like the back, thickly spotted with white, the 

 spots arranged in pairs ; feathers of the hind neck with con- 

 cealed bases of tawny buff"; the mantle somewhat more uni- 

 form brown ; sides of face chestnut, deeper about the eyes and 

 on the ear-coverts, which are whiter posteriorly ; ruff" dark 



