1864.] MR. G. R. GRAY ON A NEW PUCRASIA. 259 
as adding an interesting species to the catalogue of Chinese birds 
previously printed in their publications. 
PUCRASIA XANTHOSPILA, sp. nov. (Pl. XX.) 
Forehead, cheeks, throat, and the lower or lengthened part of 
the crest black, glossed with green; this latter is less prominent on 
the throat ; top of head and upper or shorter part of the crest of an 
obscure sandy buff, which is brighter at the ends of the longer fea- 
thers; sides of the neck with a pure-white space, that is surrounded on 
three sides by the glossy green-black colour ; behind the white space 
there is another space of pale sandy buff, with white down the shaft 
of each feather; the former colour extends round the neck so as to 
meet the similar space on the other side; some of the feathers have 
a black line along their margins ; the nape, sides of the breast, back, 
and wings black, with a grey space down the middle of each feather, 
in which there is a very narrow black line down on each side of the 
shaft, while the outer margin of each feather is broadly bordered with 
grey; the feathers under the body are similarly marked, but the 
grey becomes more of a white colour; the castaneous colour along 
the middle of the breast and abdomen is not of so rich a colour as in 
the known species ; wing-coverts black, with white down the shafts 
and with brownish-grey edges; primaries brownish black on their 
inner webs, and buff on their outer ones and at the tip of both 
webs; tertiaries black, with the shafts and outer margins greyish 
white, the black in some feathers varied with rufous ; central tail- 
feathers grey along the black shafts, then a line of black, which is 
bordered outwardly by a broad greyish-castaneous colour, and this 
is margined very narrowly with black and then with grey; outer 
tail-feathers broad, of a grey colour, banded obliquely near the middle 
and tip with black ; the first band is sometimes interrupted, while the 
second one is entire and broad, and each feather ends with a pure 
white tip; under tail-coverts black, with a prominent tip of pure 
white ; and the vent-feathers are similar, but have a castaneous spot 
on each side. 
The general tint of the female is of a pale brown, blotched and 
freckled with black, the blotches being more prominent on the back 
of the neck, upper part of back, and wings ; lower part of back and 
rump pale greyish brown, varied with grey and freckled with black, 
and with some small blotches of black on the tail-coverts ; central 
tail-feathers greyish brown, with interrupted bands of brownish white 
and black; outer tail-feathers grey, banded with black, which is 
varied slightly with castaneous, and each feather is tipped with pure 
white ; throat buffy white, irregularly spotted beneath the lower 
mandible with black: the feathers on the sides of the buffy white 
margined with black spots; breast pale rufous brown, with the tip 
of each feather white, and the base and outer side black, not distinctly 
seen unless the feathers are moved ; feathers on the thighs black, 
down the shafts and at the tips white, some of them are varied with 
pale rufous; under tail-coverts black, marked on their sides with 
castaneous, and prominently tipped with pure white. 
