664 MR.J.GOULD ON NEW BIRDS FROM EASTERN ASIA. [Nov. 14, 
Remark. The fine adult male of this beautiful species now in 
my possession formed part of a collection of birds made at Penang. 
In size it is intermediate between Nectarinia (Arachnechthra) lotenia 
and N. (4.) asiatica, from both of which it differs in the green 
colouring of its crown and in the beautiful purple tint of the breast 
and abdomen. 
OrocoMPsA FUSCICAUDATA, Gould. 
Forehead, crown, crest, occiput, and sides of the head brownish 
black ; below the posterior portion of the eye a small tuft of bright 
blood-red feathers, and below this a large oval-shaped spot of white 
bordered with black; upper surface of the body and wings light 
olivaceous brown; tail uniform fuscous; on each side of the neck 
an irregular crescentic mark of blackish brown, the two nearly 
meeting on the centre of the chest ; chin and throat white ; abdomen 
and under surface of the shoulder creamy-white, washed with light 
olivaceous brown on the flanks; under tail-coverts scarlet; bill and 
feet brownish black. 
Total length 7 inches, bill 2, wing 33, tail 32, tarsi f. 
Hab. The southern portion of the peninsula of India. 
Remark. This species, which is very common in many parts of 
the Madras Presidency, appears to have been hitherto undescribed. 
It differs from the O. emeria of Bengal, the O. jocosa of China, 
and all the other species of the genus with which I am acquainted 
in the uniform colouring of the tail. 
I had been led to believe that it might be identical with the bird 
of this form described and figured in Sonnerat’s ‘ Voyage to China ;’ 
but I find that this is not the case, the bird there represented and 
described having the tail-feathers conspicuously tipped with white. 
Enicurvus Gutratus, Gould. 
On the forehead a large spot of white; head, neck, throat, and 
breast deep black; at the nape and down the sides of the neck a 
series of silky white feathers, narrowly bordered with black ; upper 
half of the back black, with a small round spot of white at the tip of 
each feather ; lower half of the back and upper tail-coverts white ; 
wings black, the tips of the greater coverts and the bases of the 
secondaries white, forming a band across the wing, innermost se- 
condaries also tipped with white ; primaries dark brown ; two lateral 
tail-feathers white, the remainder black, tipped with white; lower 
half of the abdomen and under tail-coverts white; bill black; tarsi 
and toes fleshy-white. 
Total length 83 inches, bill 4, wing 33, tail 7, tarsi 1. 
Hab. Sikim? 
This species must not be confounded with the Enicurus maculatus, 
to which it is very nearly allied ; for it differs from that bird in having 
a much shorter and smaller tail, in having a round spot instead of a 
crescentic mark of white at the tip of each of the feathers of the 
mantle, and in the spot on the forehead being of less size. 
