32 Major H. 11. Godwin- Austen on a new Sutliora. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE HI. 



[All objects that are magnified are to 80 diameters.] 



Fig. 1. Distal half of pedicel and a calycle of a Oampanularian allied to 

 C. calieidata (Hincks). 



Fig. 2. The same (to show natural size and habit), gi-owing from pai't of 

 the stem of a Boltenia (p. 25, note). 



Fig. 3. Ohelia pijgma>a h portion of stem and one branch (p. 25). 



Fig. 4. Salecium delicatidum, older part of hydroph%-ton. 



Fig. 5, The same, to show younger part of hydrophyton. 



Fig. 6 a. SeHidarella rohiista, southern species, x80 diam. h. A speci- 

 men fi-om east coast, to show difterence in size of calycles, 

 X 80 diam. c. S. simphx, intermediate between <S'. rugosa and 

 <S'. tenella (vide p. 27), xSOdiams. 



Fig. 7. Sertidaria ?, from the Bluff, New Zealand. 7'. Portion of 



pinnae, magnified. 7". Part of stem, magnified. 



Fig. 8. HtjdraUinania ('r) hicahjcida, from the Bluff", New Zealand. 

 8'. Shows a branchlet, mode of origin of pinnae, the relative 

 distance of the calicular pairs on pinnae and stem respectively, 

 also the attachment of gonothecal pedicel. 8'". A gonothecal 

 capsule. 



Fig. 9. Exhibits a profile view of a branchlet of H. hicabjcula, showini. 

 the unilateral position of the hydrothecae. 



IV. — Description of a supposed, new Suthora from the Dafla 

 Hills, and a Minla from the Ndcjd Hills, with Remarks on 

 Pictorliis (Chrjsomma) altirostre, Jerdon. By Major H. 

 H. GoDWiN-AuSTEX, F.K.G.S., F.Z.S., &c., Deputy Super- 

 intendent, Topographical Survey of India. 



I HAVE to publish another interesting bird from the Dafla 

 hills, Assam, of the genus Suthora, closely allied to S. muni- 

 purensis,\^?i\A. & G.-Aust., described in the ' Ibis' for 1875, 

 p. 250. The difference between them is most marked on the 

 underside, the chin being grey in the Dafla bird, paling on 

 the upper breast and belly to dull yellowish white ; wliile in 

 the Munipur and Xaga s])ecies the chin and throat are deep 

 black, fading to gTcy on the breast, into the "udiite of the lower 

 tail-coverts. There is also a marked difference in size, this 

 new form being the smallest of the genus now known. 



Suthora daflaensis, n. sp. 



Above — crown of head chrome-brown, back and rump rusty 

 olivaceous brown ;• tail very rich rusty brown, particularly near 

 the base ; frontal band, passing over the eye to the nape, black ; 

 a white circle round eye, with a moustachial streak passing 



