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8. On three new Species of Birds. By R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., Senior Assistant, Zoological Department, British 

 Museum. 



[Received June 13, 1873.] 



Cham^tylas princei, sp. II. 



Olive- brown on head and hind neck, gradually shading off into 

 rufous brown on the rest of the back and tail, the latter slightly 

 tipped with white on the two outermost feathers ; wing-coverts a 

 little more golden brown than the back, with large white triangular 

 spots at the tips of the greater and median series ; quills blackish 

 brown, shaded externally with golden brown, the secondaries more 

 broadly ; lores, sides of face, and feathers round the eye white, with 

 a line of black drawn across the side face, and another behind the 

 ear ; a narrow indication of moustachial feathers ; chin, centre of 

 the body, flanks, and under tail-coverts white ; throat, chest, and 

 sides of body ochreous brown, the latter washed with olive ; small 

 under wing- coverts white, with broad black tips, the greater ones 

 black at base, white at tip ; primaries white at base of inner web ; 

 bill horn-black, yellowish at base of lower mandible ; feet yellowish. 

 Total length 8 - 5 inches, culmen 0"8, wing 4*1, tail 3*1, tarsus 1*25. 



Hab. Denkera, in the interior of Fantee. 



The type is in the British Museum. It seems of the same form 

 as Geocichla compsonota, Cassin (Pr. Phil. Acad. 1859, p. 42), which 

 Heine has made the type of his genus Chamcetylas. This is con- 

 jectural, as no specimen of C. compsonota is on this side of the At- 

 lantic, so far as I know. Cassin, however, describes his bird as a 

 Geocichla with a thick bill, which answers to my specimen. The 

 colours, however, are totally different. 



This new species is dedicated to my old and valued friend Mr. 

 Edwin C. Prince, for more than forty years the faithful coadjutor 

 of Mr. John Gould. 



Baza erythrothorax, sp. n. 



Baza magnirostris (uec Gray), Wall. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 337 ; Schl. 

 Vog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 40, 75, pi. 25. figs. 4, 5 (1866); 

 Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 18 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 36 (1872). 



Hab. Celebes. 



This species differs from the trne B. magnirostris of the Philip- 

 pines in its much larger size, dark brown colour, black head, and 

 dark cinereous ear- coverts, in wanting the grey on the chest, and in 

 the dark rufous brown of the under surface. This latter colour is 

 especially distinct on the chest, the sides of the body and flanks 

 having a few white cross bars. 



Measurements as follows : — Total length 17'5 inches, culmen 125, 

 wing 11*5, tail 8'0, tarsus 1*65. 



Mr. Wallace (I. c.) gives the following note on the soft parts : — 

 " Bill lead-colour, black above ; feet white ; iris yellow." 



The types are in the British Museum, which now possesses examples 

 of every species of Baza. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1873, No. XL. 40 



