SINCE the publication of the 2nd part of the 1st Voume of this work, the 

 following species of Digenea has been described by Mr. Sharpe of the British 

 Museum : 



269a. Digenea leucops, P. Z. S. 1888, pt. ii., p. 246 : 



General colour above light olive brown, with somewhat of an ashy tinge ; 

 wing coverts like the back, the greater series somewhat more ruddy brown 

 externally ; bastard wing, primary coverts and quills dusky brown, externally 

 ruddy olive ; upper tail coverts rather more reddish brown than the back ; 

 tail feathers dusky brown, externally reddish brown ; crown of the head like 

 the back ; a white line across the base of the forehead widening into a large 

 supra-loral spot ; feathers about the eye washed with ashy grey ; lores ashy, as 

 also the feathers round the eye; ear coverts and cheek ashy washed with 

 olive ; throat white ; the chin and a broad band on each side of the throat 

 black, continued downwards, and forming a collar on the foreneck ; chest and 

 breast pale ashy, with a slight tinge of olive brown ; abdomen white ; sides of 

 body and flanks olive brown ; thighs olive brown ; under tail coverts white, 

 also the under wing coverts and axillaries. " Bill slaty brown ; feet white 

 tinged fleshy ; iris bright dark brown." (jR. G. War dlaw- Ramsay.) 



Length. 4/3 inches; wing 2-5 ; tail 175 ; tarsus o'8 ; culmen 0*45. 



Hab. Shillong and Karenne, B. B. 



An allied species (D. malqyand) is also described from Perak. 



VOL. I., p. 231. 



