214 DR. J. ANDERSON ON NEW BIRDS FROM YUNAN. [Feb. 21, 



is distinct from H. psaroides, but I have not sufficient materials to 

 decide this question. 



I have a specimen of H. psaroides from Simla so light-coloured 

 on the under surface that it might be correctly described as pale 

 slaty white. 



Bambusicola fytchii, n. sp. (Plate XI.) 

 c? . Pileo brimneo-ferrugineo : fascia lata superciliari in fronte 

 conjuncta utrinque elongata, albescenti-cinerea ; fascia pone oculos 

 nigra : auchenio cinnamomeo : interscapularibus et tectricibus 

 alarum cinereo-olivaceis, maculis subtriquetris rufo-brunneis, nigra 

 terminatis et plumis brunneo-nigro obscure lineolatis : dorso, uro- 

 pygio et tectricibus cauda superioribus cinereo-olivaceis, nigro- 

 brunneo transversbn obscure nitideque notatis vel subfasciatis, in- 

 terdum nigro parce maculatis, maculis triangularibus albescente 

 cinereo terminatis : tectricibus cinnamomeis, duabus mediis nigro- 

 brunneo undulatim fasciatis, fasciis ochraceis pallide marginatis : 

 duabus sequentibus nigro-brunneo obscure lineolatis : loris, mento 

 gulaque pallide ochraceis : jugulo rufo-ochraceo et cinnamomeo 

 longitudinaliter vario : pectore lateribusque ejus cinnamomeis al- 

 boque ocellatis et nigro parce maculatis : pectore, ventre crissoque 

 pallide rufescenti-albis, maculis magnis subrotundatis et nigris : 

 hypochondriorum plumarum maculis permagnis et triangularibus: 

 remigibus cinnamomeis, secunduriorum marginibus externis brunneo 

 et cinereo obscure marmoratis : remigibus tertiariis rufo-brunneis, 

 apicibus extensis nigris et albescente cinereo tenuiter marginatis : 

 marginibus externis cinereo et albo tenuiter marmoratis. 

 Long, tota 12, alee 5 - 80, caudse 4-20, tarsi 1*58, rostri a rictu 9'5, 

 a fronte '86. 



5 . Cauda magis brunnea : fascia post ocidos cinnamomea : calcuri 



minuto. 

 The structural characters of this bird are decidedly Bambusicoline ; 

 but it is related in its colouring to Arboricola. Gould describes the 

 spur of B. sonorivox as blunt ; but it is very sharp in this species, 

 and is indicated in the female by a small tubercle. The female is 

 also distinguished from the male by the postorbital band being cin- 

 namon instead of black. 



I procured this bird from the old rice-clearings on the hill-sides of 

 Ponsee, at an elevation of 3000 feet. 



Pycnonotus xanthorrhous, And. Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1869, p. 265. 



Ixus andersoni, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. ser. 4, 



1870, p. 1/5. 



Mauwyne, Yunan, 1/00 feet ; Ichang, Yangtsze river (Swinhoe). 



Phasianus sladeni, MS. 



Phasianus sladeni, MS. Anderson; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 

 404, 408. 



