of Birds from the Indian Region. 95 



rufous. Space before the eye and supercilium, passing well 

 behind the eye, greyish white. Forehead, head, and nape 

 pure bright uniform rufous. Back olive-grey, each feather 

 broadly centred by a longitudinal stripe of brown. Uro- 

 pygium and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-grey. The base 

 of the long and lax uropygial feathers pure dark grey, the tips 

 only being olive-grey. Rectrices above dull ruddy brown, 

 obsoletely barred with narrow brown lines. Quills brown, 

 externally margined with feiTUginous olive. Lesser wing- 

 coverts olive-grey ; greater tinged with ferruginous. 



Wing 2*75 inches, tail 5'2o, tarsus I'O, culmen O'o6. 



Obtained by Mr. A. H. Everett at Monte Alban and at 

 San Mateo, in Luzon, during February. Only one example 

 has the sex noted on the label ; but as the dimensions of the 

 other individual coincide, it is probably also a female, the 

 dimensions of the males in this genus exceeding those of the 

 females. 



Niltava leucura^ sp. n. 



($ . Crown and nape Islue, glossed with pale lazuline, most 

 conspicuous on the forehead and supercilium. Lores and 

 narial plumes black. Back, uropygium, and upper tail- 

 coverts dead lazuline blue. Chin, throat, and breast grey, 

 washed with lazuline blue, which shades into white on the 

 abdomen. Ventral region and under tail-coverts pure white. 

 Flanks bluish ash. Quills brown, margined above Avith dark 

 blue. Wing-coverts like the head. Wing-lining and axil- 

 laries grey. Outer pair of rectrices brown, pure white at the 

 base ; next two pairs with the outer webs brown, washed with 

 blue, the base of each and nearly the whole of the inner webs 

 pure white ; the fourth pair brown on the inner web and with 

 three fourths of the basal part of the outer web pure white ; 

 fifth pair brown, washed with blue on the outer webs ; middle 

 pair blue. Bill black ; legs light brown. 



Wing 3'50 inches, tail 3'0, tarsus 0*87, culmen 0*62. 



Obtained by Mr. Limbourg at Taoo, 5000 feet elevation, in 

 Tenasserim. 



DiccBum xantJiopygium^ sp. n. 



^. Above, cheeks, and wing-coverts dark bluish slate- 

 grey. An isolated dorsal patch crimson. Uropygium yellow. 

 Chin, throat, and upper part of breast yellow, liemainder of 

 breast, abdomen, and flanks orange. Ventral region, thigh- 

 coverts, and under tail-coverts yellow tinged with green. 

 Rectrices and quills dark brown ; the primaries narrowly 

 margined with white, the secondaries w ith olive-green. 



