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rescniMftiicc to some of the Grey Starlings {Slurnin) ; the 

 grey plumage, white head, and above all the bare eye-patch 

 contributing not a little to this likeness. It seems clear, 

 however, that its short tarsi, forked tail, and above all its 

 habit of keeping in small [)arties to the tops of trees, and 

 rarely, if ever, descending to the ground, point to a close 

 affinity with J/i/psipetes. 



On my visit to Loi-San-Pa the wild cherry-trees were in 

 full bloom, and all day long were visited by numbers of 

 JJt/psipeles concolor, Chloropsis IJardwickiiy LioptHa melano- 

 leiica, and other birds. Among tliese the above-described 

 species was most conspicuous with its white head and grey 

 plumage. Its call, so far as I could catch the note amid the 

 babel of sound made by all the birds on the trees, was very 

 similar to that of Ili/psipetfs. 



I have named the species after Mr. II. N. Thompson, of 

 the Indian Forest Department, a keen observer and tield- 

 naturalist, who was with me on Loi-San-Pa, and was the 

 first to discriminate as new and |)rocure specimens of this 

 beautiful Bulbul. 



Cyornis brevirostri's, sp. n. 



Forehead, sides of the head and neck, crown, occiput, nape, 

 back, scapulars, the greater wing-coverts, and the sides of the 

 body under the wings uniform dark slaty blue (the col)ur of 

 a dark lock-pigeon) ; rump and upper tail-coverts paler blue; 

 lesser wing-coverts and the wings dark brown ; tail black, 

 the ba.'^e narrowly on the two central feathers and broadly on 

 the remainder white; chin, throat, breast, and the upper 

 half ot the stomach bright orange; lower portion of stomach, 

 the thighs, and under tail-coverts white, faintly washed with 

 olive-brown ; under wing-coverts and auxiliaries pale orange- 

 yellow. Bill, legs, and feet black ; iris dark brown. 



(J. Length 4*8 inches, wing 2'9, tail 1-8, tarsus 0*6; bill 

 from gape 0*4, from front 0'24. 



JJab. Kalaw, 4000 feet, Mjilat State, Southern Shan 

 States, Upjjer Burma. 



The dimensions given above are from the dry skin, as 

 unfortunately when procured 1 did not discriminate it from 

 C sapphira. It is a Cyornis in colouring, and seems nearest 

 to C. Ticke/it, Blyth, but very much smaller and very much 

 duller in colour, entirely wanting the gli;?tening blue feathers 

 on tiie forehead, bend of the wing, &c. Its extremely short 

 bill also serves to distinguish it from that and all other species 

 ot Cyornis. 



The types of both the above-described species are in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



