114 Mr. J. Gould on two new Species of Birds. 



XV. — On two new Species of Birds. 

 By John Gould, F.R.S. &c. 



About twenty years ago I obtained two specimens of a 

 I)icmum.y one labelled Manila, the other Mindanao, which, 

 although not quite certain, I believe to be the opposite sexes 

 of an undescribed species, and now propose to characterize as 



Dicceum retrocinctum. 



Male (from Manila). — Head, neck, back, wing-coverts, tail, 

 sides and centre of the throat, and a broad stripe down the 

 centre of the breast steel or bluish black ; a semicollar at the 

 base of the neck behind, a small stripe down the chin, and a 

 broader and longer stripe down the centre of the abdomen 

 scarlet ; under tail-coverts white ; wings slaty black ; sides of 

 the chest and tlie abdomen white, passing into silvery grey on 

 the flanks ; bill black, lighter at the base ; feet apparently 

 dark brown. 



Total length 3| inches; bill |, wing 2, tail |, tarsi |. 



Female (from Mindanao). — Like the male on the upper sur- 

 face, but wanting the red at the base of the neck ; chin and 

 throat white ; remainder of the under surface grey, fading into 

 white on the abdomen, down the centre of which is a stripe of 

 scarlet as in the oj)posite sex ; under tail-coverts white. 



Size the same as that of the male. 



CoUuricincla parvissima, Gould. 



Crown of the head, all the upper surface, including the 

 wing-coverts and tail, olivaceous brown ; wings rufous, their 

 inner webs brown; over each eye a narrow line of buff; chin 

 pale buffy, with a very faint stripe of brown down each fea- 

 ther; all the under surface rich buff or faAvn-colour ; bill light 

 horny, darker above ; legs and feet pale fleshy brown. 



Total length G^ inches ; bill g, wing 3^, tail 2|, tarsi -ff* 



Ilah. llockingham Bay, Eastern Australia. 



Remark. This bird is by far the smallest species of the 

 genus I have yet seen, as is implied in the name I have 

 applied to it, in contradistinction to C!. parvida. In colour it 

 differs from^ the latter in the buff mark over the eye, in the 

 rufous colouring of the wings, and especially in the rich rufous 

 tint of the under surface, which is even deeper in hue than the 

 same part in C. ruffjastcr : the three species are, in fact, nearly 

 allied. 



