400 Viscount \\'al(k'U on twic Sju'cies of Birds. 



(Jeiius TllYSANorKY.MNA, n. gou. 



AUictl to Juicereon, but diticriug nuicli in tlic ncurution of 

 the secondaries, and in the presence of a fringe of short hair- 

 scales round the posterior margin of the hist segment of the 

 abilomen, and a tuft of hairs on eacii sick- of the anal appendices : 

 tiie venation of secondaries is as follows : — subcostal with three 

 branches, the iirst emitted before the end of the cell and run- 

 ning to costa, the second and third forming a fork to apex, one 

 radial emitted from tlie end of cell, discocellnlars forming a 

 regularly arched sinus ; median nervure with three branches, 

 the third of which is forked beyond the end of the cell (this 

 fork is pn)babiy produced by an aberrant position of the 

 lower radial, from which the lower discoeellular has receded). 

 Type T. j>i/>r/ioj)i/</<i (^^'alker). 



L. — DcacfiptioHS of some undescrihed Specie.^ of Birds dis- 

 covered by Lieutenant Wardhiw Rainsaij in Burma. By 

 Airriirii, Viscount AValden, P.Z.S., F.K.8. 



Megalcema Ramsayij n. sp. 



The broad superciliary stripe composed of silverj^-grey- 

 eenti-ed feathers, giving a streaked appearance to the super- 

 cilium. Otherwise plumage and dimensions of M. Franklini. 



I have com])ared a large series of tyj)ieal examples of 

 M, Franklini from Uarjoeling and Asalu with a considerable 

 series of this form obtained by Lieutenant AVardlaw liamsay, 

 at altitudes varying from 2000 to 4000 feet, in the Karen-hec 

 hills. That gentleman records the iris as being '^ imt-brown ; 

 bill black, basal portion of maxilla and lower part of mandible 

 slate-colour j legs dirty greenish white." Sexes alike. 



^thopyga sanguinipecluSj n. sp. 



Above as in jiE. saturata (Hodgs.), the yellow band on the 

 rumj) being somewhat more developed. Underneath, all the 

 chin, throat, and two streaks diverging from the throat and 

 descending to the breast metallic violet-blue ; uj)per part of 

 breast velvety black ; remainder of under surface ])ale yellow, 

 many of the lower breast-feathers being centred and streaked 

 with Ijlood-red. A re])rescntative form of A'J. saturata. 



Jiill 0G5 inch, wing 2'12, middle pair of rectrices 3"25. 



